What’s changed for me since writing the book is just healing. “It took me three years to write the book, so it preceded all of last year and all of that stuff. She had been working on Brave, which detailed the devastating abuse in a hotel room during the Sundance Film Festival in 1997, when Hollywood newcomer McGowan was just 23. In October 2017, when the New York Times first exposed decades of pay-offs of sexual harassment accusers by studio head Weinstein, details of McGowan’s story were included but she declined to comment. Hollywood isn’t one for self-reflection particularly but I do think there’s been a reset button that’s been pushed there, and in the world.” “I’ve heard from a lot of people that things are a lot safer on sets now, and that they’re getting listened to in the writers room for the first time, and that there’s just been this kind of big sweeping change. McGowan does believe there has been a cultural shift in the film industry in the past 12 months, however. I’ve had a really tough last couple of years in America and I just wanted a change of scenery – somewhere that was really cultural and loved books and loved learning.” And if we break away from Europe, she says wryly: “I’ll have to find somewhere else to move. “I am hoping I might be able to stick around. She was raised with a European sensibility and in that sense feels more at home in London, where she’s currently staying. Daniel McGowan covertly defected in the late seventies and headed for the US – with a young Rose, her siblings, and one of his wives in tow. She’s referring to the infamous Children of God into which she was born, in 1973 in a barn in Tuscany, where her father ran the Italian chapter of the cult, also known as the Family. “My book compares the cult I grew up in to the cult of Hollywood and I have left both behind for a reason.” “I really don’t pay any attention to what’s going on in Hollywood,” she tells Big Issue North. Part memoir, part manifesto, the book lifted the veil of secrecy over Hollywood when it was released a year ago and included details of her alleged rape by disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein.
A story of bravery, courage, fear and love in a time of war, its themes are not unfamiliar in McGowan’s own book, Brave. She’s had a good night’s sleep, dropping off while reading a novel –The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah. McGowan believes there has been a cultural shift in the film industry in the past 12 months It’s 2am in Hollywood and while stars consider one last Wakanda Forever Cocktail at the Vanity Fair Oscars after party, it’s 10am in London and one-time Tinseltown bombshell Rose McGowan is already staring down a new day.
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