• Complaint. Rose McGowan accuses Alexander Payne of abusing her when she was 15 years old: "You left me in a corner afterwards"

Rose McGowan has not spearheaded any major project on television or in Hollywood movies for a long time, and there are those who believe - especially in Los Angeles, the epicenter of all the loudest gossip - that her career has long been on the wane. Nor is it that she was a star of the first order, as her generation partner Winona Ryder was - fallen from grace for her kleptomania, although later redeemed thanks to Stranger Things - but she was in Scream , one of the key horror films of the In the 90s, he acted under the orders of Robert Rodríguez and Quentin Tarantino, and led the cast of the series Charmed when Shannen Doherty (Sensation of life) decided to leave him.For a whole generation it has been an inescapable face .

Now, although today she does not have a first-rate job, Rose McGowan does have extraordinary power in Hollywood , which is what her Twitter account provides her, which adds more destructive power than a nuclear button. The force behind it is having been one of the most active -and believed- voices since the #MeToo movement was unleashed in 2017, which although she did not start it, she was the one who supported it: her testimony against Harvey Weinstein was one of the most solid, and helped land the movie mogul in the dock and later in jail.

If on that occasion McGowan explained that Weinstein had offered him a million dollars for his silence regarding the rape he suffered in 1997 - a bribe that McGowan rejected with contempt, recounting his case on social networks and, in 2018, expanding it in his memoir, Brave -, now her testimony has moved the tectonic plates of the cinema again, demanding that the director Alexander Payne ( Between drinks, Nebraska ) admit that he took advantage of her innocence at the age of 15, when he invited her to his house, He put a soft porn tape on her and forced her to have a sexual relationship , after which he ignored her.

As the case has explained, there is a squeaky detail - she says she was very attracted to Payne, who was 27 years old at the time - but that does not ignore the fact that, in the United States, sex between an adult and a A minor is always illegal , even if there is consent. No evidence supports the prosecution for now - the events allegedly occurred in 1988, without witnesses - beyond the veracity credit that McGowan has accumulated since the Weinstein case.

The 15-year-old data is important. It was at that age that Rose McGowan went to Los Angeles to seek opportunities in Hollywood. He had decided to emancipate himself, fleeing the family home and also the gray life of the northwestern United States. He was born in Florence in 1973: his parents were members of the Children of God sect - in which McGowan was until his teens, despite himself - and they ran one of the branches in Italy. His profile, therefore, maintains a pattern with that of many other members of what the novelist Douglas Coupland called Generation X and who marked the life anguish of post-adolescents in the 1990s: young people without a moral and emotionally unstable lighthouse, raised in families of ex-hippies, marked by erratic upbringing and a voracious desire for freedom.

In a short time, he had already risen to fame, which was consolidated in 1996 with his role in Scream and when he began to interact with the most eccentric branch of the show business. In the late 90s she had a relationship of more than three years with the gothic singer Marilyn Manson , and in the mid 2000s she entered the Tarantino circle, who recruited her for the Grindhouse project . At that time she was the wife of director Robert Rodríguez , for whom she starred in Planet Terror (2007). Many critics pin the beginning of her decline as a sought-after actress precisely after the couple's breakup.

McGowan does not currently reside in Los Angeles. After the first effervescent moment of #MeToo, she moved to Great Britain to work in the theater , promote her book and compose music, a passion activated when she began her last romantic relationship with music producer Josh Latin; just released Planet 9 , a rather uninspired electronic pop album.

Ultimately, these three years in which McGowan has been a tireless activist have been even more lively than those of her crazy years in the underground and the series B. She has emerged as the hammer of sexism in Hollywood and has agreed to pay the price for his audacity: in several interviews he has declared that he has suffered severe mental exhaustion and has denounced that he has been emptied.

She has even slipped that everything is part of a smear campaign that began at the end of 2017, when an arrest warrant was issued against her for alleged possession of cocaine found in her bag when she was going to board at the Washington airport. A black hand, then, against the black beast: now that he also directs his own films (he has four shorts), there is no doubt that he could do a great job transforming his life into an exhilarating thriller .

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