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"Cherry is certainly the character closest to my heart I've ever played and probably in some ways closest to me. I'm not saying I'm a loser per se, but Cherry gets this gold carrot yanked away. It's not even a gold carrot, it's just a regular one. She keeps thinking something is going to happen in her life, yet nothing does."
"More than anything it was the way Cherry related to my own life—not to sound like a victim, but the way you think everything's working out great, and then something comes and knocks you on your ass. Robert and I have talked about how he has fantastic luck, so we call him Four-Leaf; whereas I generally have not great luck, so I call myself Two-Leaf. And Cherry's pretty goddamn two-leaf, too, at times going down to negative-one-leaf. I also completely related to her struggles and eventually coming out on top. And the role gave me the opportunity to be funny, to cry, and to save the world—that's usually three different movies."
"Playing Cherry was amazing and I think, probably til I die; she will always be one of my favorite characters I’ve ever played. And I feel quite protective towards her, so hopefully nobody will put her down. And if they do, she can just shoot them in the face with her machine gun."
"The problems with that leg were manifold. I would have to run up a hill as fast as anyone else, while on my regular leg I had on a 4-inch high-heel boot and on the other a heavy gray cast with LED lights all over it [for CGI compositing later in post-production]. They made it lighter as the movie went on."
"I'm really proud of what I had to do for this movie, not just acting-wise but physically, too. I've got a body here to sip tea and wear a petticoat, and instead I'm doing a lot of... pliable! I do pliable things with my body."
"If there are amputee fetishists out there, I think this movie's for them."
"My character Cherry starts out as this girl whose life is a bit on the skids and all the sudden I kinda have to save the universe." [shrugs] "You know how that goes."
"The whole experience was completely schizophrenic, but in the best way."
On Cherry's walk
"Robert actually helped me a lot with the walk, and I tried to watch people with one-and-a-half legs around town, but I just felt too cruel staring at them—I’d always turn away at the last minute."
On Cherry & Pam
"They were extremely different. Quentin and I had talked about Pam being blonde; I felt that because her face gets hurt just a little bit, I wanted her to look really soft and angelic. Whereas I wanted Cherry to have more of an exotic feel, with pale skin, black hair, and red lips. It’s kind of like working from the outside in: They both needed to have really strong, separate identities; making Pam look soft was key to the character. The roles were equally fantastic in completely different ways, and obviously it’s anybody’s dream to do two things like that back-to-back—it was like having two different amazing meals."
"You get the usual scripts and it's like, "Can we all grow brains and not make another stripper film?" Okay, I was a go-go dancer in the beginning of Planet Terror, but it was kind of sweet rather than tawdy. This girl, God bless her, is kind of a loser. Really sad, floating through life, and then she loses half her leg, and that just doesn't bode well."
On Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino
"They're about the coolest people you could ever hope to work for."
On Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino
"Quentin's style is a more controlled insanity, and Robert's is really quiet and focused because he's got so much going on. He's shooting it and then he's editing it in his head, and then he goes into his rough edit on a playback machine. It was very funny because Quentin and Robert use the same crew. So everyone was very quiet on Robert's set and then a little wild on Quentin's set. I guess it's just that you take on the personality of the captain of the ship."
Robert Rodriguez on Rose McGowan
"Rose McGowan, no one else could play Cherry. She has to be within the action, she has to be sexy, and romantic, and... I had written some music, the main Grindhouse theme, which you hear in the trailer. 'Rose, can you dance?' 'Yeah', 'Well, I want you to dance during the opening credits. Now you're a dancer.'"
Critics on Rose McGowan's Performance
From Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
"In the performance of her life, McGowan throws herself into the juicy, sexy, funny, comic book hero role of Cherry Darling."
From Paul Travers, Rolling Stone
"McGowan is dynamite as Cherry Darling."
From Mick LaSelle, San Fransico Chronicle
"And, of course, there's the go-go dancer with a dream - played by Rose McGowan, in the best showcase of her career so far."
From Tim Goernert, JoBlo
"In Planet Terror Rose McGowan, who plays Cherry, was ridiculously hot and spectacular in the opening credits! CRACK-BOOM! For a chick who has a machine gun for a leg, she re-defines what a hot badass woman is! Move over Sarah Connor and Ripley 'cause Cherry is the new action girl on the scene!"
From The Arrow, Arrow in the Head
"The incredible cast in this madhouse thankfully ran with that sweet joo-joo all the way! Rose McGowan was all around class, sass, confidence and sexiness! Cherry was a fantastic character and McGowan wrangled it effortlessly! Think Ripley from Alien but hotter than hell and sporting a dangerous yet arousing attitude! I'd kill to see Cherry in her own movie! KILLL!"
From The Arrow, Arrow in the Head
"Rose McGowan (Cherry) exuded powerful confidence, charm and sensuality. She led Planet Terror like the acting trooper that she is. Impressive performance!"
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