Rose McGowan recently completed Fifty Dead Men Walking, an adaptation of a book by former IRA informer Martin McGartland.  Naturally, eating free food and reading lines off a script for a couple hours a day really allowed her to identify with the people.

McGowan says she would have joined the IRA if she lived in Belfast during the Troubles.  “My heart just broke for the cause,” she told a news conference ahead of the film’s world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.

She may sound like your typical Hollywood moron, but don’t worry, McGartland’s got her back.

Mr McGartland said her comments were naive. “It’s easy to say this sort of thing when you live in LA,” he added. “Rose McGowan’s comments were insulting to victims of IRA terrorism and she should apologise,” he said.

But obviously, McGartland doesn’t know of the full extent of Rose McGowan’s street cred.

She said during filming in Belfast, advice from former IRA members on how to make a bomb and techniques for torturing informants helped to add authenticity to the project.

“I had many secret meetings in dark places. We were being watched by all sides, phones tapped, that sort of thing,” she told the Hollywood Reporter. [BBC]

In Rose’s defense, if I were an Irish guy, this is exactly the kind of thing I’d tell a really dumb chick I was trying to bang.  “Shh, baby, the government’s watching.  Here, put your head in my lap.  Now find the wire tap.  I think it’s in my balls.”

-Thanks to Bryce for the tip

Yesterday at Comic-Con’s Red Sonja panel, Robert Rodriguez (Producer), Rose McGowan ("actress"), and Douglas Aarniokoski (director) sat down to answer a bunch of questions. I imagine the first five were "Arnie uh what?  How do you spell that?" and the next ten were "So… she’s gonna kill shit with a sword in this, right?"

GRRR, BLACK WHITE AND RED!  CHICKS LICKING BLOOD OFF THEIR FACE!  THE ORIGINALITY MAKES ME WANT TO SHIT!

Says commenter Eibmoz, "She’s gonna need that sword since she can’t act her way out of a paper bag."  According to four out of five dentists, that’s a burn. 

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The always often accurate Page Six is reporting today that director Robert Rodriguez and Rose McGowan have split.  Presumably, this means that Rodriguez has fired his penis as casting director, or at least now his penis will be allowed to do a more thorough job. 

McGowan was hoping to star in at least three planned Rodriguez films – a remake of "Barbarella," "Red Sonja" and "Woman in Chains!"
"Too bad ‘Grindhouse’ didn’t gross $100 million. Then, maybe, ‘Barbarella’ would have gotten the green light," said one source. "Instead, the moguls were saying, ‘We need a bigger star, a bigger name.’ " Jessica Alba has been touted as a possible replacement.

Well of course she was.  Any time you need a hot chick to just stand there while you draw some CGI elephants around her and it doesn’t matter how dead-behind-the-eyes she is, Jessica Alba’s name will come up.  Anyway, I hope these remakes still get made.  I plan to show up to the premiere blasting Kansas in my Pontiac Fiero, rocking some giant overalls with graffiti on them.  Haven’t you heard?  Crappy stuff from other decades is so hot right now.   

Robert Rodriguez is producing a film adaptation of Red Sonja (you may remember the 1985 version with Brigitte Nielsen), with his penis once again serving as casting director.  His girlfriend Rose McGowan (above right), who looks like a dish soap ad from the 50s, is set to play the lead.

"I was surprised when Rose brought me a script of Red Sonja that she liked," Rodriguez says. …"I found it very entertaining. Sonja was strong, smart, cunning — just about everything she’d have to be to survive."

…Yeaaah… so apparently he also let her choose the script…

"When they first came to me with it, I thought it was funny," says the actress, 34. "I do have a body made for sitting on a veranda with mint juleps and a parasol. I don’t know why I always have to save the planet."  [Because you're bad at acting –Ed.]
…McGowan and Rodriguez have not seen Nielsen in the original, and they have no plans to catch up. As the actress explains, "Why put that in my head?"
Instead, the origin story, to be directed by longtime Rodriguez associate Douglas Aarniokoski, will take its cues from the comic books as well as works by pulp novelist Robert E. Howard, father of the original Sonja (then spelled Sonya) and Conan the Barbarian. [USA Today]

You may remember that Rodriguez also tried to cast McGowan in his remake of Barbarella, only to have Universal back out of the project (though he claims the split was a result of a budget disagreement, not McGowan).  Anyway, I’m sure this will be really good, and that all the bathrooms on the set will be super clean because Rose McGowan makes Robert Rodriguez pee sitting down.  "I’m really starting to get used to it!" I imagine him saying.   

Question marks in the headline can mean only one thing: it’s time to prognosticate! Will humans land on Mars?  Is purple the new pink? Would this monkey let me squeeze her tits for a banana?  No one knows for sure, and that means we’re free to speculate wildly! Yee haw!

I was already about halfway through writing this post when I clicked over to Durden to discover Mickey Rourke had also been busted for a DUI on a Vespa – synergy, baby!

My story is a rumor that Mickey Rourke is out of Sin City 2 because “Mickey doesn’t consider Rose McGowan to be a real actress.”  The nerve!  The chick from Jawbreaker?  Not a real actressI?

Anyway, Rourke’s feelings about McGowan are somewhat problematic, since he shares most of his scenes with her, and because she’s boning the director (Robert Rodriguez).  If worst comes to worst, I’m thinking they could just hire Nick Nolte and give him a bad facelift (like I did with my last rebound girlfriend).  Nolte and Rourke both share a certain je ne sais quois, and stench of liquor.