Rose spent 5-6 hours a day in the makeup chair for Conan the Barbarian, she had prosthetics starting from the bridge of her nose to the top of her head. “I think she’s quite majestic… She is a bit startling at first but I think she’s quite beautiful in her own way.”
She also gave her thoughs on why Jason Momoa is better then Arnold Schwarzenegger's Conan.“Arnold is very muscular, but Jason is a beautiful man. His muscles are very different – of the non-steroidal variety.
“If you go back and watch the Schwarzenegger one, he can barely pass his sword from one hand to the other, because he’s so bulky.”
Total film also asked her on the reason that her long anticipated Barbarella remake with director/fiancee Robert Rodriguez never got to production.
“It was a pity. I have a test that we did that would blow people’s minds. I took the flak. I never announced why."
“I never said why. I took all the hits of [people] saying, ‘She couldn’t raise the money.’ But there was $80m in Germany, but Robert [Rodriguez] didn’t want to shoot there and I had serious family stuff.”
So, could the project ever be resurrected? “Probably not… I’m with somebody British [financier Rob Adams] now.”
McGowan is also in this months issue of BlackBook magazine where she briefly talked about Conan and Barbarella.
"I'm so impressed by how insane and magnificent I look in the film" "I was in prosthetics for five hours each day from 2 untill 7 in the morning. The whole experience was otherwordly and beautiful. and I really loved what was being created. it was nice to feel that way"
The artcile went on to talk about McGowan's hertwo year absense from high profile films "I took two years off because my father died. I pulled out of three films to deal with it. We had $85 million to shoot Barbarella in Germany, but Robert did'nt want to shoot there".
