Sep 20 2007Rose McGowan, Zac Efron have casting troubles
Rose McGowan was being considered for a starring role in “Speed Racer,” but the studio felt her plastic surgery left her unrecognizable. NY Daily News reports:
McGowan, 34, has admitted to having plastic surgery for an eye injury related to a car accident. But casting skeptics suspect she has had much more done, and that it cost her the role. "The studio felt like she was hard to recognize and worried that by the time the movie hit theaters, fans might not know who she was," says our insider.
Rose wasn’t the only one passed over. Zac Efron was up for the title role, but wasn’t the right fit:
”During his auditions, Zac never connected to the romantic lead in the reading,” says our source. “By the second round, the casting crew didn't feel he was believable as a leading man/hero.”
Hollywood executives are so stupid. I would totally believe Zac Efron as a sexually confused race-car driver. And who better to play his post-op tranny love-interest than Rose McGowan? Damn, that concept just sells itself. People are reading this post right now and dumping money onto their keyboards, screaming “Sold!” This is why I should be the head of a studio – besides the one in my basement where, I like to believe, I make more than what society calls "porn." I make art. Art that’s generously seasoned with people doing it on my dryer. While my cat watches.
RELATED STORIES

Reader Comments
1. dave - September 20, 2007 11:50 AM
first
2. Barry LeFarge - September 20, 2007 11:51 AM
Why must they damage such a classic cartoon? Keep it animated. I guess McGowan looks animated with all the surgery.
3. Giggles - September 20, 2007 11:51 AM
It's no loss, because I didn't know who she was before her "eye surgery."
4. haroof - September 20, 2007 11:53 AM
Good.
It's about time these stupid plastic surgery-addicted bimbos start losing roles for this crap they're doing to themselves.
5. jrzmommy - September 20, 2007 11:54 AM
Look, plastic surgery or not, I wouldn't know Rose Mcwhoever if I ran over her with my truck, so what's the point?
6. lambman - September 20, 2007 11:56 AM
Emile Herche and Christina Ricci are both 100,000,000 times better actors that Zac Effron and Rose McGowan, so the studio made the right call in the casting department. But I have 2 questions
1) they've been filming for months already, why is the superfish reporting on casting decisions now?
2) Zac and Rose as love interests for eachother? seriously? I'd believe her as his mother, but not his girlfriend...maybe because she isn't a dude
7. I have entered a world of crazy - September 20, 2007 11:58 AM
True statements:
"She was doing so much better when she was with Kevin Federline."
"She was doing so much better when she was with Marilyn Manson."
shhhh....listen...hoofbeats...four horsemen...
8. Hecubus - September 20, 2007 12:01 PM
'Speed fucking racer', who gives a fuck. It's just going to be another Hollywood pile of recycled shit anyway. Rather than worrying about hiring the actress with the least plastic surgery why not write a fucking original script ? Why not use the chance you have to create art ??? Oh no, the 18 - 24s really don't go for art. Speed fucking racer, if there were any justice Hollwood would have been swallowed up completely by a vengeful Earth by now.
9. havoc - September 20, 2007 12:01 PM
Plus, she's fat.
Like Britney......
.
10. hey...wha? - September 20, 2007 12:04 PM
Fish, that was pretty slick with the pictures - it was like her actual reverse-makeover. You should have left up the first set too, it would have illustrated the story perfectly.
11. pointandlaugh - September 20, 2007 12:05 PM
got dammit......she is butt-ugly.
12. flavio - September 20, 2007 12:06 PM
what does it matter if she's recognizable? isn't she supposed to get into character anyways?
13. Agent - September 20, 2007 12:08 PM
No biggie. She just has to be patient and wait until she gets a casting call for a big-budget alien invasion movie.
14. ssdd - September 20, 2007 12:11 PM
Pic's 7 & 8 .. Love how the actual Eye -BRow stops almost midway over the eye yet the EYEbRow pencil just keeps on going and going and going......oh so .. so so manicured
15. Robert - September 20, 2007 12:12 PM
I know I noticed her skin below her eyes is messed up, I thought she had a stroke.
16. Dr. 90210 - September 20, 2007 12:12 PM
The real story is that she got in a car accident, her own eyeglasses shattered and glass was wedged into her skin around her eye. The plastic surgery would have been much simpler and less extensive if she got to the hospital right away, but Robert Rodriquez kept her at the accident scene for two hours, masturbating repeatedly onto her face.
17. Nicole - September 20, 2007 12:13 PM
She looks kind of like Alyssa Milano?
18. Texas Tranny - September 20, 2007 12:13 PM
I love the dress.
19. SissyFag - September 20, 2007 12:16 PM
@16
I would love to masturbate onto Zac's face.
20. Jimbo - September 20, 2007 12:20 PM
@19 You and TT could have a circle jerk on Zac's face
21. G - September 20, 2007 12:23 PM
OMG how did Michael Jackson get into the lineup on the last shot?
22. Texas Tranny - September 20, 2007 12:24 PM
No Jimbo, wouldn't want to waste any of that.
23. Ath Lipth - September 20, 2007 12:34 PM
IT'S ALWAYS INTERESTING TO SEE THE KINDS OF COMMENT LEFT BY PEOPLE WITH EXTREMELY LOW SELF ESTEEM:
9. havoc - September 20, 2007 12:01 PM
Plus, she's fat.
Like Britney......
11. pointandlaugh - September 20, 2007 12:05 PM
got dammit......she is butt-ugly.
IN THEIR OWN SHALLOW LITTLE WORLD, THESE KINDS OF PEOPLE ARE IN DENIAL ABOUT HOW FAT AND UGLY THEY ARE THEMSELVES. SUBCONSCIOUSLY THEY KNOW WHAT OTHER PEOPLE THINK OF THEM, BUT CONCIOUSLY THEY SHIELD THEMSELVES FROM THE TRUTH. THE MANIFESTATION OF HOW THEY TRULY FEEL ABOUT THEMSELVES COMES OUT IN THESE TRANSPARENT ATTEMPS TO PROJECT THEIR OWN NEGATIVE SELF IMAGES ONTO OTHERS THAT ARE OBVIOUSLY PRETTIER AND/OR THINNER THAN THEY ARE. UNFORTUNATELY THESE PEOPLE ARE REALLY JUST HURTING THEMSELVES EVERY TIME THEY MAKE SUCH COMMENTS. EVEN THOUGH THEY THINK IT MAKES THEM FEEL/LOOK BETTER, IT REALLY ONLY SERVES TO REINFORCE THEIR OWN NEGATIVE SELF IMAGE.
24. FunnyFish - September 20, 2007 12:36 PM
I don't give a damn about this woman. I just wanted to tell the fish dude he is funny as hell. On all these articles his commentary is ripping. Get outta this line of work dude and become a comedian. You would be awesome. I swear!
25. Shin Yee - September 20, 2007 12:38 PM
no wonder her eyes look plastic!
26. Texas Tranny - September 20, 2007 12:38 PM
Oh great,
now we have a psychiatrist on the Fish.
27. TetterkeT - September 20, 2007 12:42 PM
Efron couldn't "connect to the romantic lead" and they didn't feel he was "believable as a leading man?" Um... I wonder what made them think that? Maybe because he is teh gay!@#$
28. unicornzrawk - September 20, 2007 12:44 PM
<3 Emile Herche <3
29. Duchess of Dork - September 20, 2007 12:48 PM
Actually, I don't recognize her either. I used to love her face, but now she looks completely different. It's bizarre.
30. Frasier - September 20, 2007 1:01 PM
In fact, shouting all the time is the key diagnostic sign of low self-esteem. You're worried that if you speak in a normal tone of voice, nobody will listen. And you're 100% correct.
31. Blondie - September 20, 2007 1:10 PM
She doesn't look any different than she did before...
32. say what? - September 20, 2007 1:14 PM
^^^^^ nigga you out your mind
33. sportsdvl - September 20, 2007 1:22 PM
#1 - claiming to be "first" is plain lame and lazy. Kinda like Rose's eye.
34. Ath Lipth - September 20, 2007 1:29 PM
30. Frasier - September 20, 2007 1:01 PM
In fact, shouting all the time is the key diagnostic sign of low self-esteem. You're worried that if you speak in a normal tone of voice, nobody will listen. And you're 100% correct.
___________________________________________________________
SO WHAT EXACTLY IS YOUR POINT? HOW IS MY ACTING UPON THE OBSERVATION THAT TYPING IN ALL CAPS WILL GET MY MESSAGE READ A SIGN OF LOW SELF ESTEEM. ITS CALLED LOGIC. I DON'T TYPE MESSAGES SO THEY CAN BLOW AWAY IN THE WIND.
35. LL - September 20, 2007 1:30 PM
The most hilarious thing about this story is that studio execs were deep in discussion about casting in SPEED RACER. Man, I thought my job was kind of ridiculous, but at least I don't have to actually discuss the casting of a movie based on a fucking low-rent cartoon. As long as Hollywood still has money to throw away on crap like this, I don't want to hear any whining about the danger of illegal downloading of movies.
And we must have a recognizable actress in the movie, because Speed Racer is the story of our lives. "Romeo and Juliet," "Saving Private Ryan" and "Speed Racer." Yup, those three stories together weave a tapestry of the meaning of human existence, for all time.
"... people doing it on my dryer. While my cat watches." - Hey, I saw that one. The cat was especially good, particularly when it started licking its ass. Hot.
36. I miss my Irish Rose - September 20, 2007 1:30 PM
She looks much better here than the pictures from yesterday. Too bad about the surgery though. She used to look so much younger than she really was, now quite a bit older. Before I wanted to kidnap her and take her far far away and keep her all to myself. Now...I guess I'd still like an autograph.
37. Starbucks Whore - September 20, 2007 1:36 PM
She is so utterly ridiculous looking it's hard to imagine that she's a human.
38. Riotboy - September 20, 2007 1:37 PM
Rose would have make a great Trixie!
39. dave - September 20, 2007 1:38 PM
she looks like Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson) in "Sunset Boulevard", very creepy
40. Jules - September 20, 2007 1:50 PM
"HOW IS MY ACTING UPON THE OBSERVATION THAT TYPING IN ALL CAPS WILL GET MY MESSAGE READ"
ENGLISH, MOTHERFUCKER! DO-YOU-SPEAK-IT?
41. lambman - September 20, 2007 1:55 PM
Are these pics recent? Because she looks freaking fantastic in them!!!!
If any guy looks at pic #2 and his reaction is "she looks fat" than that guy is gay and needs to stop reading Vogue. She is very thin, but still has some curves to her and that's hot. Grindhouse showed very clearly that she has an awesome body.
pic #6 is cute as hell
42. adeliza - September 20, 2007 2:08 PM
Eye surgery my ass. She had plastic surgery and a chemical peel in order to remove any and all traces of Marilyn Manson's jizz dna that might be left in her pores.
43. @38 - September 20, 2007 2:21 PM
Zac would have made a BETTER Trixie. He might have even gone TOPLESS! Hubba hubba.
44. @43 - September 20, 2007 2:24 PM
I would SO suck on Zac's nippies, then jizz all over his highlites. BOOOyahhh.
45. Ath Lipth - September 20, 2007 2:24 PM
40. Jules - September 20, 2007 1:50 PM
"HOW IS MY ACTING UPON THE OBSERVATION THAT TYPING IN ALL CAPS WILL GET MY MESSAGE READ"
ENGLISH, MOTHERFUCKER! DO-YOU-SPEAK-IT?
___________________________________________________________
YES, OBVIOUSLY MUCH BETTER THAN YOU CAN READ OR UNDERSTAND IT.
46. Dick Richards - September 20, 2007 3:05 PM
Okay, does anyone feel confused by Zach Efrom's not being able to connect with his female costar? Of-course not. Because Mr. Efron is homosexual. Many homosexual men pretend to be straight men in movies. Tom Cruise, Kevin Spacey, Tom Selleck, that guy that plays "Malfoy's" dad in the Harry Potter movies; they make the roles work, because they're actors. Zach Efron's gay, and can't even pretend to like girls. Because he's not really an actor.
47. jrzmommy - September 20, 2007 3:27 PM
the casting crew didn't feel he was believable as a....male.
Zac Efron knows he's a homo, right? RIGHT?
48. Robert - September 20, 2007 3:39 PM
Oh so that is why Christina Ricci's hair is like that now ! Of Course She is Trixie ! anyway the movie will bomb
49. TomCruise - September 20, 2007 3:44 PM
Zack wasn't right as the romantic lead to a 34 year old woman. He will do great as the romantic lead next to a 44 year old man. That's why he will be in my next movie MI:IV . In this fast paced flick it will be Zac's job to get the hope diamond out of Hulk Hogan's butt which is where it is hidden while the hulkster's in prison. I train Zack in the movies opening scenes in ways to handle violent prison mansex. We can do this because both of us are not gay and movie professionals. Please note in the sex scenes how I am always on top. Being on top makes me the man. A non-gay man.
50. paco - September 20, 2007 3:47 PM
maybe its better that she is unrecognizable...i wouldn't want to be recognized the way she looked b4.
oh...you guys who do the "first" thing are amazingly stupid. i told some friends that people did that and they laughed and said they didn't believe me. then i showed them and they laughed some more.
51. jrzmommy - September 20, 2007 3:53 PM
I told some friends about a tool that goes by paco and what a jack off he is....and they laughed and didn't believe me......then I showed them and they laughed some more...........HEY! That's weird!!!!!
52. Tits McGee - September 20, 2007 4:01 PM
Two words: Robert Rodriquez
This is Robert Rodriquez's New Bitch. He dumped his wife and kids for this one legged whore (from his movie) who else must he fuck and leave during every movie he does. Typical Hispanic manshit..
She was raised in a freaky religious commune, too, as a kid, and never was exposed to much of anything until she ran off when she hit 18 years old. Dumb ass cunt.
and furthermore, The ticklish comfort of a good old-fashioned mustache ride...
53. Tits McGee - September 20, 2007 4:02 PM
Oh, and furthermore, she's a bad actress.
And she has horribly low, and worthless self-esteem. You can smell it on her like you can smell Keno in a townie bar in Dorchester.
54. sdfds - September 20, 2007 4:03 PM
why did she fuck up her perfect face ? She wasn't even old looking ! Women please do not get Facial Plastic Surgery ! Not until you are at least 80 !
55. adeliza - September 20, 2007 4:03 PM
#51 .
Nya ha!
Don't know why, but that's funny as hell!
Quick timing too!
heee heee
56. StillBourne Identity - September 20, 2007 4:25 PM
Considering she reaks of the type of woman who loves to have her partner shit in her mouth, it's only fitting she have enough surgery to give her the Asian look.
Zac Efron, well, he's just a gay.
57. StillBourne Identity - September 20, 2007 4:26 PM
Sorry, I meant Oriental Slant look. Not Asian. Sorry...
58. Hominid - September 20, 2007 5:18 PM
She's definitely had some work done, and not just for her auto accident. And she's still good-looking, but she was absolutely stunning before she went and messed everything up. It absolutely boggles my mind that gorgeous women like her will do this to themselves. She was heartbreakingly pretty five years ago, now she's just conventionally attractive. What a waste.
59. ninjarobot - September 20, 2007 5:24 PM
didnt they already make this movie with tom cruise?
gays of thunder?
zac would have been perfect.
60. UNCLE NED - September 20, 2007 6:24 PM
What part was she supposed to be up for? Trixi?
You know they're going to ruin Speed like they ruin everything else.
61. Connie - September 20, 2007 7:20 PM
i know this is probably stupid on my part, but i thought she looked a lot different. i didnt even know she had plastic surgery, i was wondering about it though. i think she looks like an old woman now, she looked so much better before.
62. Hollywood Agent - September 20, 2007 8:48 PM
She looks just like everyone else in Hollywood.
Everyone in Hollywood is a Clone.
All these actresses care about is keeping up with the latest cosmetic surgery trends. She's just "Jones -in-it" (keeping up with the Jones').
63. Evil - September 20, 2007 10:19 PM
Rose went so Sharon Stone. I like both, but they both have fucked up their faces. Watch Basic Instinct 1 then watch Basic Instinct 2. She is unrecognizable. Damn Rose!
64. fern - September 20, 2007 10:41 PM
hey, she is really pretty. her skin is so fair and she doesn't wear a lot of make-up. She looks exactly the same in my opinion. You guys suck. Another thing is, these pictures are too goddamned zoomed in. Who the hell looks at someone this close. It's just offensive.
65. Mama Pinkus - September 21, 2007 9:52 AM
Ms. McGowan is a bit young to be sporting the "permanent look of surprise" look.
66. igroovin - September 21, 2007 1:03 PM
http://www.rose-mcgowan.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=324&pos=5
67. lopelus - September 21, 2007 10:06 PM
Wow. The casting directors are really hard up on themselves, aren't they? It's a movie about Speed Racer for Christ's sake, they could use Michael Jackson and Britney Spears for the leads and it'd be just as credible.
68. B - September 23, 2007 5:10 AM
Is that Ashley Judd?
69. STOCK PICKS - September 24, 2007 4:06 AM
Rose had nothing on the other two girls from charmed.
But enough about Rose, do YOU like Penny Stock Picks with a lot of promise?
Then visit, www.MEGAstockpick.com and sign up for free email alerts for MONEY MAKING undervalued stocks.
70. Lisa - September 25, 2007 8:14 PM
Only reason why I'm seeing Speed Racer is to see Rain play the rival racer :9.