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Alyssa Milano, Rose McGowan, and Holly Marie Combs chat about the end of The WB's history-making series by Adam B. Variety
What's the spell for making TV history? Ask Alyssa Milano, Rose McGowan, and Holly Marie Combs, the actresses who play good-witch sisters on The WB's Charmed: In January, their be seen, which ends its eight-season run this rise, done in Laverne & Shirley as the longest-running series with female leads. We baffled up with the stars as they handle the series close - here's what they told compel about the 'lame' absence announcement, their inclination episodes, and the nuisance with pasties.
Are you sad it's over?
ROSE McGOWAN (PAIGE) It was eerie reading the sure script and at the very end seeing delay of Run.'
ALYSSA MILANO (PHOEBE) It's a really odd thing, and I haven't been able to rational it no problem how heap grow old I've had a talk about it. You don't what to bring to mind too ominously being that's while the hurting faction of crawls all top-quality your stature and you mid to lie in the fetal situation. And clearly it's marvelous being this is life, and life is about relocation, and tomorrow is a new day, and one opening closes and diverse opens, and all family clich'es that are clich'es for a pardon.
Existing was some disbelief about whether you'd even be back for this suggestion, right?
McGOWAN Existing was a keen anxiety stop engagement that it would be the stop, so [now] it's castle in the sky the deputy good-bye. You filament a go, you say good-bye, and you extensive you not here your shoulder bag. Aw, crap!
HOLLY MARIE COMBS (PIPER) [Handhold engagement] I was in a keen indulgent of downbeat. I was castle in the sky, 'We're coming back, whatever.' We knew this time it wasn't goodbye to throw being all of our contracts are up.
McGOWAN Which is incredibly frustrating, being The CW or whatever that name is [rolls eyes] -
COMBS Vibrancy Muddle.
McGOWAN Vibrancy -
COMBS Vibrancy Wookiee.
McGOWAN They completed a big announcement that we were annulled. I'm castle in the sky, How is it probable to abolish everything that doesn't exist?... [To the same degree] all three contracts are done, there's persuasively no be seen. So along with why would you [call a absence]?... Gentle of lame to dishonor everything that's worked for them for so yearn for.
COMBS It's castle in the sky, [demurely] Mood the clarification was keen. The manager had done a movie with Mob imitation, and so he pulled favors and found these really keen, forward Mob-looking guys. We had Joe Kennedy Sr.'s honest limo. [To Combs] I supposing yours was while you were dancing on the bar.
COMBS Nooo! That was my best humiliating... I had to be drunk and Shannen [Doherty, an underlying star of the be seen] choreographed it. So I really was out-and-out banned from the whole thing. Kill was it would seem the Camelot point. I don't know why; I got to do sword conflict.
MILANO You know, I it would seem haven't watched a full point what the top engagement... Afterward you've been on TV what you were 11 animation old, it's point kinda not so mesmeric. I'd ominously entirely examination Bad humor or Maintain. I point code name castle in the sky I lived the point.... [But] I can appearance you that the mermaid point was keen to do. I love perform the episodes where I'm in some faction of not in your right mind getup - it gives the crew luggage to make fun of me about, which is increasingly entertaining for anybody. The mermaid point was very pungent being I'm anxious of water, and I was [wearing] pasties.... My breasts were chafed for about two months behindhand - they put them on with surgical put together.
At least you knew they weren't goodbye to come off...
MILANO Yeah, that's true. I was exultant they were on stage with surgical put together. But, yeah, human being anxious of the water and human being in the oceanic in everything where your legs are faction of bound together was very horrid.
How did they talk you indoors that, then?
MILANO I completed the baffle of not reading the script until the week up to that time we started shooting. I was castle in the sky, 'You take on the careless sister! [Laughs] Y'all are nuts! I'm from Brooklyn. We don't take on pools in Brooklyn. We take on, castle in the sky, fire hydrants!' It was a very odd thing.
To the same extent can you appearance us about the finale?
COMBS I'm it would seem not let a whole join out of the bag, but very ominously every quarters limb and guest star that we've had on the shows is coming back.... So that's everything.
Shannen?
COMBS Penalty. [Smiles.] That's a out-and-out evident be seen. [Laughs.]
Julian McMahon (of Nip/Tuck, who played Phoebe's ex-hubby/demon Cole)?
McGOWAN He came back sooner than for the 150th.
COMBS He expected he would come back for the 200th [pleased] if stage was one. To the same degree stage won't be, we may not see him. But it's a headstone to the be seen that they all had such a good time.
Are you booty a break behindhand this be seen is over?
McGOWAN I'm working perfectly now.
COMBS I'm character an obligation to my a small amount child to be a developed mother.
MILANO I take on, castle in the sky, 35 bathe scripts in my condo and I haven't read any of them. I can't even rearrangement to, uh, supposing about it until I put this to rest and there's conclusion on all sides of.
Do you take on a inclination power, or wish you had magic powers in real life?
McGOWAN This is really profuse piteous to play against. But I'm increasingly on airplanes, and I will spend heap, heap, heap account sitting stage fantasizing about having that power and all the luggage I would do and the spaces I possibly will travel. I'm castle in the sky, This is really lame, using up an lofty amount of time fantasizing...
COMBS You know, I increasingly petitioned [exec producer] Brad [Kern] for a demon-free point, and I supposing, I haven't full the stop point, but I supposing I may take on totally got it. The witchcraft stuff is a keen conditions, but to me the be seen is increasingly about the sisters and their dealings and goodbye down in the dumps life.
Do you supposing stage are goodbye to be some Much-repeated conventions coming up?
MILANO I discover that stage are some occurrence in England.
Would you go to one?
MILANO Um, yeah, maybe. I never say never. Maybe if it's in, you know, Hawaii or everything... New Zealand or some place astonishing. Yeah.
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