Since her 1995 breakthrough role in Gregg Araki’s The Doom Generation, Rose McGowan has scared up trouble and terror in films such as Scream, Jawbreaker, and Grindhouse. Now playing another witch in Conan the Barbarian, which muscles into theaters August 19, the 37-year-old Charmed alum continues to cast a wicked spell on gay fans.

The Advocate: Something tells me that the gay audience is going to love Marique, your Conan villainess.
While spending six hours in makeup every day, I thought, I can’t wait to see the boys and girls do Marique for Halloween in West Hollywood. She’s quite majestic and beautiful in an otherworldly way.

Jason Momoa, who plays Conan, isn’t too shabby either. When I see him in the movie, am I more likely to be aroused or develop a case of body dysmorphic disorder?
Aroused. Jason’s ass is epic. When I saw his backside naked, I was like, Oh, my. He’s got a beautiful body, because it’s not all Mr. Steroid. He looks raw and masculine. (more…)

I’ve added beautiful pictures of Rose at the 10th Annual InStyle Summer Soiree that she attended yesterday to the gallery. Previews and gallery link below.

      

I’ve added more beautiful pictures of Rose at the Entertainment Weekly’s 5th Annual Comic-Con Celebration Sponsored By Batman: Arkham City to the gallery.  I’ve also added more photoshoot outtakes of Rose from Spec Magazine. Previews and gallery links below:

     

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Meeting Rose McGowan over the weekend at Comic-Con, she instinctively offered her left hand first. Having injured her other arm weeks ago in the goriest window-related accident I’ve ever heard, she’d flown into San Diego to promote this summer’s Conan the Barbarian, touted as one of the bloodiest action pics of the year. But to hear her tell it, Conan the Barbarian ’s got nothing on McGowan’s last few years when it comes to struggle and pain — and yet, she credits the summer swords ‘n’ sorcery pic with changing her mind about quitting Hollywood.

McGowan points to a number of events that brought her to the brink of retirement a few years ago: “Mean directors,” major injuries, family illness. She was to star in updates of Red Sonja and Barbarella, both with former partner Robert Rodriguez, before the pair split and both projects fell apart, one by her choice, the other not. After two years “out of the game,” she took the role of Marique, a half-witch, half-human villainess with a freaky look and an even freakier psyche, in Marcus Nispel’s Conan the Barbarian — and the hard-R fantasy actioner re-ignited something within.

Movieline spoke with McGowan in San Diego about the injuries that led to her pulling out of Red Sonja, the reason why Rodriguez’s Barbarella remake stalled, how playing the witch with seductive claws and serious daddy issues in Conan revived her passion for acting, and why she might yet move to a farm in Italy in the near future. (more…)

Total Film recently caught up with Rose McGowan, who told us all about Conan The Barbarian and her stalled Barbarella reboot.

On her frightful Conan character, half-woman, half-witch Marique, she said: “I think she’s quite majestic… She is a bit startling at first but I think she’s quite beautiful in her own way.”

Comparing her co-star Jason Momoa to original Conan Arnold Schwarzenegger, McGowan told us: “Arnold is very muscular, but Jason is a beautiful man. His muscles are very different – of the non-steroidal variety.

“If you go back and watch the Schwarzenegger one, he can barely pass his sword from one hand to the other, because he’s so bulky.” (more…)