McGowan writes that by the time she attended the 1998 MTV Video Music Awards with her rocker beau, she decided to reclaim her body in the wake of the alleged Weinstein assault. “The truth was that at the same time when he wasn’t creating electrifying music, Manson was painting watercolors of my Boston terriers while I was ordering glassware from Martha Stewart’s online store." McGowan describes her relationship with Marilyn Manson as a brief time of idyllic peace in her life and calls the eclectic musician deeply misunderstood. And I’ve never been on a set where that bad behavior wasn’t indulged.” To me, 'I’m a method actor’ is usually synonymous with ‘I’m going to be a (expletive) to everybody on set.' It’s something so many young male Marlon Brando wannabe actors do. “It was the first time I’d heard about method acting, where the actor stays in character all the time, even when the camera isn’t rolling. When she got her first starring role in 1995's Doom Generation, McGowan said she got her first lesson in the preference dealt to male stars. McGowan says her first assault in Hollywood happened when she was a 14-year-old film extra, a job taken after her father demanded she pay $300 a month in rent. A man on set in his late 40s "jammed his tongue down my throat" and fondled her breasts. “The crew would snicker in disrespect when she would direct them.” During her five years on Charmed, “only one female director was hired in the entire five years I was there, and the crew sank her,” she says. The lack of respect for women permeates all aspect of show business, as McGowan describes it. After the Times and New Yorker stories on Weinstein last fall, McGowan claimed "HW raped me" in a series of tweets to Amazon head Jeff Bezos. The New York Times reported last fall that Weinstein reached a settlement for $100,000 with McGowan, then 23, after the Sundance Film Festival incident. Weinstein said the settlement was "not to be construed as an admission" but a way to avoid court. He has repeatedly denied all allegations of non-consensual sex. To date, 84 women have come forward with allegations against Weinstein. I told him to stop doing that.” Though the co-star’s name is not disclosed in the book, McGowan previously revealed on Twitter that it was Ben Affleck. The unnamed actor replied: “(Expletive) it. "If you enter my body via tongue, fingers, penis, object without my consent, that to me is rape and I need no law telling me what I know to be true."Īfter the alleged assault, McGowan was driven to a photo op with her Phantoms co-star, and shaking, she told the actor on the cast where she’d been. "Rape to me is any violation of my body," she writes. “I back into the wall, but there’s nowhere to go.” As she cried, Weinstein performed oral sex on her while masturbating, she says. “My clothes are getting peeled off me,” she writes. After sitting on the couch while he barked on the phone, McGowan says the two talked about films and her acting goals.īut as he walked her out, McGowan writes that he pushed her into his bathroom, which had a hot Jacuzzi waiting. The next day McGowan was sent to his hotel room. The movie mogul sat behind her, she writes, and she witnessed her manager (a woman) nodding at Weinstein after her topless scene. McGowan first met Weinstein, whom she never names and refers to as "the Monster" in her book, at the Sundance Film Festival premiere of her 1997 film, Going All the Way. In Brave, McGowan, 44, does a lot of scalding truth-telling, driving home that readers need to wake up to the misogynistic realities of showbiz. Here are four must-read moments:
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