Rose McGowan Was Just 16 When She Did Those Racy Scenes in ‘Doom Generation’ … OMG
Rose McGowan revealed that she was just 16Â when she appeared in the film, but she lied and said she was 18 in order to snag the part of Amy Blue. Nor did she realize how sexually charged some of her scenes were. When she rewatched her topless love scenes years later, she said, she realized why her father chased Araki out of a movie theater when the film came out.
First the stars of Kids revealed that they werenât nearly as sexually experienced as their characters made them seem, and now our illusions about another hallmark of transgressive teen cinema, Gregg Arakiâs Doom Generation, have been shattered.
Last night at Anthology Film Archives, after a screening of the 1995 cult classic (it came out just a few months after Kids), Rose McGowan revealed that she was just 16Â when she appeared in the film, but she lied and said she was 18 in order to snag the part of Amy Blue.
Not that she wanted to play the shit-talking, bed-hopping, speed-popping heroine that bad. She said that when Araki asked her âDo you want to be an actress?â her reply was: âNo.â
The crowd laughed, presumably thinking about the kerfuffle she got herself into last month after tweeting out a douchey casting call for an Adam Sandler movie. (She said she posted the tweet without thinking anything of it, and had no idea it would cause such a brouhaha).
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McGowan said she based the character on herself (the electric-red lipstick Amy wears is the one she wore in real life) â except for the sex part. In reality, McGowan was so innocent that she didnât realize how dirty her lines were until she rewatched the film to do the DVD commentary. (Last night, she dusted off an impression of one of Amyâs many burns: âLook, you fucking chunky pumpkinhead!â)
Nor did she realize how sexually charged some of her scenes were. At the time, she thought she was just playfully rolling around during the threesome scene with the filmâs hunky leads, X and Jordan.
When she rewatched her topless love scenes years later, she said, she realized why her father chased Araki out of a movie theater when the film came out.
The screening was part of Dirty Looks: On Location, which continues through July 31. The festivalâs founder and director, Bradford Nordeen, introduced it by saying he pulled Doom Generation off the video-rental shelf at the age of 12 or 13 because it had an 18+ sticker on it (when it came out, the Times said it was so gruesome it made Natural Born Killers look like âa model of restraintâ). âThis is a film that looks as much to Godard as it does to MTV,â Nordeen said, âand I think itâs that tension between the two forms that really inspired me to present this film here tonight but also just inspired me to go back to it, like, every year.â
During the q&a session, Nordeen and McGowan debated whether the self-described âheterosexual movieâ in Arakiâs âTeen Apocalypse Trilogyâ could be made today. McGowan said she wasnât sure whether it could be, but she hoped so. Nordeen said definitely not as an American production, with a $1 million+ budget (he noted that the film had French financing).
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