12 Things We Learned From Rose McGowan On Louis Theroux’s Podcast
3. Her Big Break In Hollywood Never Felt Like An Exciting Prospect For Her
The clocks are then rolled back to when McGowan first started in the acting business. After landing starring roles in critically-acclaimed movies like 1996’s horror-flick Scream and 1995’s black-comedy The Doom Generation, her prolific talents were beginning to gain momentum and she was considered one of Hollywood’s most promising starlets.
However, for McGowan, life off-screen in downtown L.A wasn’t living up to Hollywood’s idealised glitz and glamour. She admits that acting always came easy to her when stepping onto a set, and as a result, it always felt merely “just like a day job.”
McGowan also mentioned how ostracised she felt within the mechanisms of Hollywood’s casting, especially as a young woman finding her footing. She may have understood the discipline of acting itself, but as a young woman in a business full of big sociopathic fish, she didn’t know who to trust or who to stay away from.
She even likened the overwhelming feeling as being “a weak gazelle with the lions coming for you.”