Actress Rose McGowan has said passage
of California's gay marriage ban, Prop 8, broke her heart.
The 37-year-old McGowan is best known
for her role playing Paige Matthews for four seasons on the
supernatural television series Charmed.
She stars as the powerful witch Marique
in Conan the Barbarian, which opens in theaters on Friday,
August 19.
In
an interview with gay glossy The
Advocate, McGowan, who was raised in a gay-friendly household
and whose sister is a lesbian, said she stood alongside Prop 8
protesters.
“I was furious with how horribly the
whole Prop. 8 campaign was run in California,” McGowan said. “It
broke my heart the night Prop. 8 passed. I'm out there on Santa
Monica Blvd. with crowds of people, and the world is watching, but
all the anti-Prop. 8 protestors did was put up the same non-telegenic
people with the same speeches, not understanding how it works. Their
money was totally mismanaged. I really want California to get it
together like New York has.”
McGowan added that she would feel like
a “hypocrite” if she married and her sister and gay friends could
not.
“Before I broke up with my fiancé,
it seemed absurd to have my sister at a wedding that she couldn't
have if she wanted to. I would still have great hesitation about
getting married. I'd feel like such a hypocrite, walking down the
aisle past all of my best friends who can't,” she said.