Post by Chris on Mar 2, 2018 12:11:07 GMT -5
A couple days ago, I ordered Rose's new book and began immediately reading it when I got it. Just last night, I got to the part of the book, "Televised Life". In this part, she immediately begins to talk about Charmed and Aaron Spelling. She says that she got the call from Aaron when she was in Romania and when she left, the plane she was on was showing the Pilot episode of Charmed. She took this as a sign that she was going to be part of the show and signed a five year contract(which we all got), and thought that the show wasn't going to last past Season 5.
The following are a few excerpts about Rose's time behind the scenes of Charmed, and trust me, there's plenty of them:
"I had so many life milestones on camera instead of in real life. My "first" wedding was a very meta experience. I walked down the aisle with a fake dad, with fake friends, with fake sisters, a fake husband-to-be, a fake pastor: It was all fake fake fake. I went through all the emotions as if it were really happening to me, because that is what acting is after all."
"There was an edict from the studio that none of us were allowed to cut or color her hair without permission from the studio president. I thought that was some serious bull. As I was about to return for my second season on the show, I dyed my hair red without asking for permission. Oooh. The studio got wind of it and flipped out, of course. They were furious and demanded to know how I expected them to explain this. I told them: "It's a show about magic. You simply say I was mixing a potion, and it blew up in my face! My hair turned red! I liked it, so I kept it."
"There was another big to-do on the set when Holly Marie Combs cut her bangs. The studio feared people wouldn't recognize her. That's how dumb they think you audiences really are. If a character changes their set look in any way, audiences won't know who they're looking at. I wish you could all be flies on the wall when the studio executives and producers talk about you all. Believe me, you are looked as sheep with no minds of your own."
She also talks about how she would go home with the bloody make up on whenever her character got injured and on the way she'd stop at the super market. She says that not one person reacted to the fake wounds on her face or where ever they were on the days she did that or asked her if she needed any help.
"Only one female director was hired over the course of my five years of being on the show, and the crew sank her. The show was about three young women, and they had not in all the time I was there had a female director. But the mostly male crew, I think without even realizing what they were doing - they just cut the female directors legs out from under her. The crew would snicker in disrespect when she would direct them. I feel horribly about not fighting for her more, but I didn't fully understand the dynamics of what was happening. My character was too busy talking to leprechauns to have the time."
This next part is about a director Rose was excited to work with, but upon meeting him, she immediately felt sour towards him.
"There was one director we had, whom I was so excited to work with until I met him. The day he showed up to work, I was in my fourth or fifth year on the show, and the show could direct itself. It was a well-oiled machine. So in the first rehearsal of the day, after walking from point A to point B, I exited right. It's not a hugely important decision, and the director hadn't given any direction as to whether to exit right or left. But he exploded. He yelled: "You idiot! You do not cross in front of my camera! YOU DO NOT CROSS IN FRONT OF MY CAMERA!" he kept yelling. The man had a meltdown. His voice reverberated off the walls. I was in shock. He kept yelling and now was cursing me out. Bitch. Idiot. Bitch."
"This was exactly one minute or so after we said good morning to each other. It was 7:30 a.m. No one shut him down. Not one person on an almost all-male crew, not one producer, not one assistant director. Men I had worked on set with for years. Why? Because the director, even if there for only thirty minutes was a guy and I was a young woman."
She complained about him to the others, and they promised Rose this director would never verbally abuse her on the set ever again, and that he was back on set two months later.
In the end of her talking to us about Charmed, she says, "If you are reading this book because of Charmed, thank you for being a fan of the show and my character. I respect you and I honor you. I know it's brought a lot of joy to a lot of people. I was glad to be of service. I am glad something really good was coming out from what, for me, was a very difficult time. When I say something negative about the show, you have to understand I am speaking about my own personal experience."
The following are a few excerpts about Rose's time behind the scenes of Charmed, and trust me, there's plenty of them:
"I had so many life milestones on camera instead of in real life. My "first" wedding was a very meta experience. I walked down the aisle with a fake dad, with fake friends, with fake sisters, a fake husband-to-be, a fake pastor: It was all fake fake fake. I went through all the emotions as if it were really happening to me, because that is what acting is after all."
"There was an edict from the studio that none of us were allowed to cut or color her hair without permission from the studio president. I thought that was some serious bull. As I was about to return for my second season on the show, I dyed my hair red without asking for permission. Oooh. The studio got wind of it and flipped out, of course. They were furious and demanded to know how I expected them to explain this. I told them: "It's a show about magic. You simply say I was mixing a potion, and it blew up in my face! My hair turned red! I liked it, so I kept it."
"There was another big to-do on the set when Holly Marie Combs cut her bangs. The studio feared people wouldn't recognize her. That's how dumb they think you audiences really are. If a character changes their set look in any way, audiences won't know who they're looking at. I wish you could all be flies on the wall when the studio executives and producers talk about you all. Believe me, you are looked as sheep with no minds of your own."
She also talks about how she would go home with the bloody make up on whenever her character got injured and on the way she'd stop at the super market. She says that not one person reacted to the fake wounds on her face or where ever they were on the days she did that or asked her if she needed any help.
"Only one female director was hired over the course of my five years of being on the show, and the crew sank her. The show was about three young women, and they had not in all the time I was there had a female director. But the mostly male crew, I think without even realizing what they were doing - they just cut the female directors legs out from under her. The crew would snicker in disrespect when she would direct them. I feel horribly about not fighting for her more, but I didn't fully understand the dynamics of what was happening. My character was too busy talking to leprechauns to have the time."
This next part is about a director Rose was excited to work with, but upon meeting him, she immediately felt sour towards him.
"There was one director we had, whom I was so excited to work with until I met him. The day he showed up to work, I was in my fourth or fifth year on the show, and the show could direct itself. It was a well-oiled machine. So in the first rehearsal of the day, after walking from point A to point B, I exited right. It's not a hugely important decision, and the director hadn't given any direction as to whether to exit right or left. But he exploded. He yelled: "You idiot! You do not cross in front of my camera! YOU DO NOT CROSS IN FRONT OF MY CAMERA!" he kept yelling. The man had a meltdown. His voice reverberated off the walls. I was in shock. He kept yelling and now was cursing me out. Bitch. Idiot. Bitch."
"This was exactly one minute or so after we said good morning to each other. It was 7:30 a.m. No one shut him down. Not one person on an almost all-male crew, not one producer, not one assistant director. Men I had worked on set with for years. Why? Because the director, even if there for only thirty minutes was a guy and I was a young woman."
She complained about him to the others, and they promised Rose this director would never verbally abuse her on the set ever again, and that he was back on set two months later.
In the end of her talking to us about Charmed, she says, "If you are reading this book because of Charmed, thank you for being a fan of the show and my character. I respect you and I honor you. I know it's brought a lot of joy to a lot of people. I was glad to be of service. I am glad something really good was coming out from what, for me, was a very difficult time. When I say something negative about the show, you have to understand I am speaking about my own personal experience."