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