McGowan calls out the villains in movie memoir

Rose McGowan doesn’t pull her punches, and sometimes the sheer scale of the madness of the world she describes serves to undermine rather than add weight to her strident perspective

Rose McGowan: her new book is a fascinating but deeply angry read Pic: Getty

Memoir: Brave, By Rose McGowan, HarperCollins, €25

Rose McGowan isn’t like other Hollywood actresses. Although the former Scream heroine and Charmed series mainstay could play the Hollywood game with the best of them, McGowan – who is still best known in some quarters for dating shock-popper Marilyn Manson – was always something of an industry delinquent, as exemplified by Roseanne Barr’s introduction to her on Barr’s short-lived chat show in the late 1990s. ...