your head in collusion with her mother had her kidnapped and given electroshock therapy to force her to want to be famous and instead as i say in the book it left her just a husk of a woman and that is kind of i wrote that because it's kind of the message you get as a woman they're just they would love to be able to do that to me i'm sure of it it's it's just don't get out of line little girl don't get out of line really i want schork was it you explain this quite funny actually so. was the united states when you given that you left the gold in italy and you arrived in the united states which of america truly was i don't know that i've ever gotten over being shocked when america i tell you the truth on a daily basis it's quite shocking. it is incredibly beautiful land but it was very traumatic and i did have a big quibble with orange cheese and not understand it having never seen it before and into me it was just a perfect metaphor for. i mean imagine going to the food there in the eighty's in

america it was going from italian food in tuscany you to that was just everything was different was loud it was it was it was everything you think you cried over the denny's i cried over eating spaghetti a fast food restaurant i thought this is it i'm stuck when it comes to the classism we're dealing with and that's the word to use when food stamps are involved with school people ashamed people are shamed for that and it was interesting going back and forth between my father who at the time did have you know some money to then my mother who was putting yourself back in university so we were on a very lean budget and it is it likes to pretend it doesn't have that class structure that it got free of it but that's who we were formed by you know america anyway and it's not really. and how exactly do you think it manifests in different ways it manifests everywhere just from if you're poor you go to the

drugstore the chemist to get your face cream instead of you know the in the u.k. would be selfridges for the fancy people but it's the same people behind say l'oreal making both products or. you know they follow you in places if they don't feel like you're quite right for it or they exist all the examples of it the subtleties the if you go into a wal-mart there which is you know store by and large it's a very cheap clothing store and i think they've just rolled out a big market here but it was interesting i went into one recently and all the clothing marketed towards people of a certain means were all fluorescent and then i thought you're not going to go into a store on you know rodeo drive with all these floor it was like so we can easily identify the poor people there's a lot of psychology that goes into the stuff and i i had a lot of time i suppose to think about it and your choice of rebellion like so when the other children all around the world was the only way that many of them have.

fashion music and fashion and just i didn't i was very ok with being different i was very ok i was looking differently and i was ok with putting out a message of i guess i'm not like you and it wasn't. they just knew that inherently they stink of li you know when you're from somewhere else they love making you feel like you're the freak and i just but it's not me through the country of immigration in the book you say. you hear the teacher saying we're trying to teach you the pledge of allegiance it might get the communist out of you and then you say that's how you were fascists. they didn't even get that no no historical understanding no not really and the books were really wrong and the books that they taught with and you still do. i didn't put this in the book or it got cut but i was very influenced by malcolm x.

when i was eleven and i was your average eleven year old reading material but i was reading the autobiography of malcolm x. and he said something that really stuck with me at that time when i'd come to america and he said why would you let your enemies teach your children. and not just kind of really stuck with me in terms of realising i didn't want their information in my head i didn't want the propaganda in my head i'll take what i want leave the rest and there was a powerful influence it was probably well malcolm x. very known for by any means necessary some that kind of power in any kind of move of a justice influence correct influenced me incredibly. i mean this is the story of the autobiographical part of the story quite bizarre the story where not to being a drug addict a drug addict you end up in rehab you just. i mean stepdad you know really at the end of the day. but you're taught about drugs rehab i learned

a lot about drugs rehab i learned about what they do how much street value was what they look like where the best areas are to procure them and i thought it was the most bizarre form of teaching and obviously they want to repeat customers in this particular rehabilitation center so i chose to leave it because drugs rife in. in hollywood as well would one would say the right pretty much everywhere but in hollywood i'm sure yes and the meanness you saw in the streets after that when you were homeless and so would you say in terms of meanness it was worse amongst the three thousand dollars it's far worse there was a lot more kindness on the street there's a lot more kindness shown and that is something. you kind of fall into a band of people quite quickly. and i i really i think fundamentally there came from people that did tell the truth and so i just naively assumed people were telling me the truth once i got to hollywood i couldn't

understand why they would lie i would think about it not that they can't be like him because what would be the motive the motive is simply to live hand and this is the studio executive system which what it didn't change since the one nine hundred thirty s. was an earlier comment earlier as a matter it hasn't changed and the. it's the same amount of directors in the directors guild of america talk about that in the book you know and that's those are all the directors that are making the product that you see that goes into your mind and worldwide and that statistic that ninety six percent males in that d.g.a. directors guild that hasn't changed one hundred forty six why is it being so able to prevent anyone from storming the barricades all cults are very good at that are . and supported by the media as well with the raw specifically with me the role of the media is is very much and has always been you know hand in hand with hollywood . and the government's completely hands off obviously this government's not going

to be doing anything about it but the government's always been pretty much hands off except for the blacklisting era after that stopped the original blacklisting you know joseph mccarthy in the fifty's it was cointelpro somewhere in between right of the twelve unsanctioned yeah but it was the black listing for mean media the way to speak about how media treated me was that they were in fact paid often has been proven to drag me to say bad things about me for the last twenty years really and you think you're just i mean in this story it is read reads as until until the end of the ending i mean you had this one when to a brit character chrysalis records just describe his story and way he was one of the one light in your life he was a light cantor was somebody who helped me out of a bad situation and i hope for the future and then he was murdered still unsolved and that was there's

a point where i mean i say it in the book earmarked for weird sometimes and i look at that like the ultimate theft and he was stolen and that was a really it was a seminal moment in my life and also it's just it was really dark obviously you know and that was a dark that was a dark dark time and where things kind of went black for a while but like anything you survive it. because there's no choice not ever does rose all stop you the war from rose mcgowan off to the brick. pools the the next to get the treatment that greece got from the troika the i.m.f. the e.c.b. the e.u. they gang up they destroy a country for profit it's a it's a smash and grab and greece was destroyed they had

a referendum and then they didn't pay any attention to the referendum they didn't want the troika to run and look what happened increase it turned it into a pit it turned into a shell it turned into garbage and now the same bankers are getting together because they need like a shark always something to destroy to eat and consume so we were trying to figure out would italy be next for spain i think where the two likely candidates i guess as we've been saying that for five years that this was coming and i guess down italy will be the next meal for the i.m.f. . many european countries several companies believe that we shouldn't should get out of this this sanction and come to something that just. markets let's be honest about the feeling find of the season on the sea sure. has to come from watching. those washington these utilizing we need you tonight would you be three

rules. for man are sitting in a car when the fifth gets shot in the head. all for different versions of what. one of them does on the death row there's no way you could have done. there's no possible way because the list did not shoot around a corner. welcome back i'm still here with actor director and activist rose mcgowan another theme throughout the book is the need for conformity not just in ideas but with the way one actually looks the surface just told me a bit about that hair color hair length particularly well something i found really

interesting and that had to do with you know by a female agent in hollywood talent agent directly telling me that i had to have long hair otherwise the men in hollywood wouldn't want to she said it nastier terms but sleep with me and if they didn't want to sleep with me they would hire me and the thing is i knew she was right nothing to do with the script writers nothing to do with the plot lines nothing but it is again that conformity and i think we've all seen that hairdo with the three blowdry that with the three twirls on the and it's like kind of classic hollywood hair and i do wonder when that look will stop it is i kind of took matters into my own hands. if you up. and kind of. i i i do i talk about it in the book i just i broke up with the world in a way the idea the preconceived notion of what you're supposed to look like as a woman and i was she would look good or to call me this film

director really. find a way and i think. you still believe that this is continuing today actors in hollywood if they're female have to conform to that there is very little leeway specially for anyone starting out well that's the whole thing there's a lot of leeway there's so much leeway but they don't know that they're trained out of thinking there's any leeway this is how it's been done is how it's always been done this is how we should do it and i just think it's not even a good system we're not even great businessman they could be making so much more money it's not even if you can teeny to take what's special about people and massage it away until they're just an atomic time until they no longer know who they are what they are then what are you selling you're selling what you think someone should be and that person behind the scenes might not be somebody you want in your head so it's not even capitalism or it's the fact they themselves are in

the cold but internationally billions of people are influenced but that's the thing and people say you know do you hate hollywood. i hate that it goes out to the world i hate that that thought doesn't stay local you know and there's there's obviously been seminal amazing films and cinema and all these things and it has done some good but i think overall i think on the balance. so a lot of harm and obviously in the in the newspapers across the media we know about certain studio directors you just mentioned an agent but what is exactly the rule of a hollywood publicist people way to know burt lancaster in the sweet smell of success what did they do an influence the billions of people in what they then may want to emulate aspire to and see in people what's usually somebody a publicist is meant to get you press or media or work usually with other higher

ups to sell you to make you palatable and a lot of these people have just seen movies where they see publicists in the movies acting a certain way so they come and they act that way because they think that's how they're supposed to be so it's just kind of like this on and on like people in hollywood have seen movies about people in hollywood so they continue to behave that way even though there's no reason to not just be a person there's no reason to not be free but the threat is you'll be dropped if you don't take their orders it's not a threat they do it they they do it you don't want to get any reputation it's worse than you know high school girls sleeping with the boys it's like you don't want to reputation whatever you don't want a reputation so you do everything you can to not step out of line and and that eventually just again it strips what's special about you away i mean friends to some journalists to try to interview some straws big surprise the publicists are in

there pretty quickly to stop certain questions particularly ones of politics i should say or issues of war and peace. i don't know israel gaza you've been does that while i did interviews are so boring. yeah tell you that control they don't want even stars don't have an opinion do not have an opinion no matter what you know do not have an opinion and i why not we're sorry but you get people on twitter that will say shut up and act. or shut up i'm saying shut up and dance and i would say no we are people too and i think the more that people in front of the camera really understand that they have a voice also and people often get quite jealous of those i have a platform without realizing they worked very hard for that platform i worked very hard to hang on and.