| Wednesday 29 January 2014 |
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Rose McGowan on Mariah Carey
|  | | Rose McGowan | |  Rose McGowan made her directorial debut at this year's Sundance Film Festival with a disturbing and gripping short dubbed Dawn. Starring Tara Barr as a sheltered youth and Reiley McClendon as her seemingly dreamy beau-to-be, the film explores sex and violence in the early '60s - a time that perilously preferred to wall off such subjects with white picket fences. Though this is the longtime actress' first time behind the lens, her career has veered into this era before, often musically. She performed Peggy Lee's "Fever" in an episode of Charmed, depicted singer Ann-Margaret in CBS' Elvis series, and sung "You Belong to Me" for Planet Terror (part of 2007's Grindhouse double-feature).
SPIN sat down with McGowan in Park City, Utah, and discovered not only that our hunch about her retro tastes was on point, but that she's also prone to singing Sir Mix-a-Lot at family gatherings, and hiring entire brass bands while stoned.
You were married in October. Any interesting music selections for the ceremony?
So I went to New Orleans and happened to meet this amazing 20-piece brass band on the street while I was super stoned. In that state of mind, I decided to fly them all to Los Angeles to play me down the aisle. I had them learn This Mortal Coil's "Song to the Siren" (originally by Jeff Buckley). They're all, like, 17-year-olds, throwing down from the Ninth Ward. They were amazing.
What was your and your husband's first dance?
Busta Rhymes and Mariah Carey, "I Know What You Want". (excerpt from Spin)
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