• Rose McGowan as: Marique
• Directed by: Marcus Nispel
• Selected Cast: Jason Momoa, Rachel Nichols, Stephen Lang
• Written by: Thomas Dean Donnelly, Joshua Oppenheimer, Sean Hood & Andrew Lobel
• Release Year: 2011
• Genre: Action / Adventure / Fantasy
• MPAA Rating: R

After his father is murdered and village destroyed, Conan (Jason Momoa) ventures into an unforgiving world where he survives as a thief, pirate, and warrior. On his path of wanton adventure and women, Conan chances upon the warlord responsible his tribe's destruction. As he tracks Khalar Zym (Stephen Lang), Conan battles monsters, Zym's henchmen, and Marique (Rose McGowan), a powerful witch.

Rose McGowan plays Marique, an evil half-human/half-witch.

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• "It required six hours of makeup each day starting at 2:30 in the morning."

• "I used to be a ballerina and in a lot of these movies where I play strong characters my wrists want to kind of do stuff like that. I normally have to train that out of myself but this was the first movie where I was really able to use it."

• On her character being originally written as a man
"It was still Farique, not Marique. It was funny, imagining it. I was like, 'That scene would have been kind of gay, if it was...' There's nothing wrong with that, in fact I was actually thinking that would have been kind of great if it had these really great homosexual undertones to some scenes. But they changed up the script, they changed it to a girl and that changed everything. But I like playing strong women."

• On her character
"Basically, I'm trying to seduce my father, so I have a bit of an Elektra complex, and at the same time go out and do his battling as much as I can for him, to please him — because I'm in love with him, basically. I like that it has this level of pathos to it, it's not just this bad guy character who wants all the power because he wants all the power, which we've all seen many times."

• On her character's look
"The hair and makeup team was just top notch, couldn't have been better. It was an honor to work with them. I think she's very majestic and queenly, and I think she's eerily beautiful. And when I say that I'm not discussing myself, but the character, in a very bizarre way."

• "This one was very different action, normally the action tends to be more straightforward. This one is more about her seducing people with her claws, and I decided to play it like a snake — how a snake charms its victim and then strikes."

• "While spending six hours in makeup every day, I thought, I can't wait to see the boys and girls do Marique for Halloween in West Hollywood. She's quite majestic and beautiful in an otherworldly way."

• On her co-star Jason Momoa
"Jason's ass is epic. When I saw his backside naked, I was like, Oh, my. He's got a beautiful body, because it's not all Mr. Steroid. He looks raw and masculine."

• On what she did to celebrate once wrapping the film
"Got the hell out of Bulgaria."

• "Yes, she's Marique — the bad girl to my good girl. We have a fight scene and she is after my blood. Let me tell you, her make-up is unreal. I mean, Rose is barely recognizable under all these prosthetics. It's quite cool." - Rachel Nichols

• "And then... Marique is her name, which is Rose McGowan, she plays Stephen Lang's daughter. She's got some crazy prosthetics, she's got a prosthetic from here (indicates bridge of nose) all the way back to there (indicates top of skull). She's amazing, Rose McGowan, just might be one of the most intelligent, funny, funniest women I've ever met. She was really cool." - Jason Momoa

• From Hollywood Reporter
"Stephen Lang personifies badass evil as Conan's chief opponent while Rose McGowan's snakelike witch is pure villainy."

• From Hollywood Reporter
"Meanwhile, Rose McGowan, as Lang's demented witch of a daughter, Marique, takes the scenery chewing route, licking blood from her Freddy Krueger-esque finger blades, seemingly having the time of her life portraying a monstrous lunatic, which all adds to the films' unashamed craziness."

• From Today Online
"Leave your brain at the door, enjoy Ron Perlman and Rose McGowan hamming it up as part of the supporting cast, and have a ball of a boorish time."

• From Movies Online
"Even the clotheslining of a horse and Rose McGowan doing her best 'Marilyn Manson meets Freddy Krueger meets Samantha from Bewitched' impersonation can't save the film... Speaking of McGowan, she definitely has the best role in the film as Marique, the sorcery-loving daughter of the nefarious Zim. First of all, she has a shockingly receding hairline that makes it perfectly understandable why she is so furious. On top of that, she has to be just as evil as all of her father's henchmen, but in a ball gown, which would make anybody cranky. One of her actual lines of dialogue is 'I can smell you.' I would side with her anytime, especially against the bland heroine Tamara played by Rachel Nichols."

• From Entertainment Weekly
"Rose McGowan does interesting, perverse things with her eyeballs and lips as Khalar's twisted, witchy daughter, but the team-written script doesn't own up to the warped father-daughter relationship at which it coyly hints."

• From Time
"Rose McGowan, creepily seductive as always..."

• From Roger Ebert
"This Marique, she's a piece of work. She has white pancake makeup, blood red lips, cute little facial tattoos and wickedly sharp metal talons on her fingers."

• From NY Times
"Although meticulously kitted out in fetish boots and a shaved head, Ms. McGowan registers less like a dominatrix of doom and more like a Bjork-inspired pinup, her press-on metal claws drawing fatal lines and laughs. She's pretty and pretty ridiculous, but the digital sandmen her character summons up to fight Conan, which burst out of the ground like rockets and explode into dust, are nifty."

• From KPBS
"As the other chief female, Rose McGowan fares a little better playing the evil witchy Marique."

• From IndieWire
"McGowan stops just this side of camp to become a figure of danger."

• From Pop Matters
"Still, along with an oddly out of place McGowan, the evil end of the narrative is fleshed out in full scenery chewing mode."

• From Metro Times
"As Zym's freaky, wicked witch daughter, Rose McGowan looks like she's been snorting ground-up emo powder, with pasty skin, a high forehead and raccoon eye make-up, a get-up apparently lifted from ex-beau Marilyn Manson."

• From Big Picture
"Ms. McGowan - who clearly deserves better - is a campy joy in razor-nails, wedge heels and leather."

• "I can smell you."

• Filmed in Bulgaria and South Africa.

• Rose's character was originally a male character, named Fariq.