Shannen Doherty, rose to fame as Brenda in Beverly Hills 90210 before quitting after 4 series. [seasons] Several minor hit films later, including Heathers with Winona Ryder, [this was BEFORE 90210 started] she joined Charmed, a TV show about three sister witches, but has just announced she will not be signing up for a fourth series. [season] This weekend she presents a spooky Weird Weekend on cable channel Living, which includes unseen episodes of Charmed. Are you the new Sabrina, Bewitched or Buffy? Would you cast a spell on someone to make them fancy you? Are you fed up with being asked about Beverly Hills 90210? Good, because I’m going to ask a couple. Do you miss it? Is there a hex on the show? You aside, the others don’t seem to work that much How much time do they spend with hairdressers on the set? You have a reputation for being feisty ... Are you? Do you still go to the movies? So what film did you last enjoy? Coming from Memphis, do you drink Jack Daniels? If you had to have a tattoo, what would it be? What was the last CD you bought? What would be on your jukebox from hell? What’s your ideal night out? Do you dream? What’s in your icebox? No healthy diet then? What’s your exercise regime? Do you sing in the shower?
None of them now I’ve left but, if the show was going to be compared to something, I’d prefer it to be Buffy.
Never. If people are going to like you then, if magic were true, you’d actually be making them do something they didn’t want to do.
Yes, totally...
Not at all but I do miss a couple of the people. I still see Jason Priestley. He came and surprised me on set a couple of weeks ago, he’s such a great guy. I also stay in touch with Luke Perry, Ian Ziering and I speak to Tori Spelling occasionally. As for the rest of them, I’m not too bothered whether I ever see them in my life.
I think it may be because most of them don’t want to. Luke’s on a show in the US and Jason... well, he can kind of work when he wants to.
Quite a bit but not as much as you’d think they would.
I was much more when I was younger. But I’m still opinionated and speak my mind. I have strong views. As a kid, even at four, I wasn’t allowed to watch cartoons. My parents would give us the newspaper to read instead so that fives you a better idea of how the real world is. The trouble is that, being a woman, if you offer a view and stand by it, then people consider you to be a bitch. If you’re a man then you’re a [slaps thigh] ‘good ol’ boy’.
Yes and no, I’m sitting on a fence a little. I don’t do as often as I could. I think the last film I saw was What Women Want. No, I went with my parents to see 15 Minutes with Robert De Niro and Ed Burns. I didn’t really enjoy it.
I love everything Julia Roberts does and I normally love De Niro. 15 Minutes wasn’t too bad until De Niro dies. After that it just went downhill, there was no reason to sit through it. I loved Any Given Sunday and Heat is one of my all time favourites.
No. I’m a wine drinker.
I have one actually. It’s an Irish Cross with the sun behind it. It’s to signify my heritage which is Irish Catholic.
Sade. But I’m really showing my age when it comes to music. I still love Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and U2, they’re my favourite artists. I don’t think there’s ever been a better band then Zeppelin. It’s music that makes you think. Oh, and I also love Eric Clapton. I named one of my dogs Layla.
From hell? Meaning songs I hate right? Anything that was too heavy metal.
A really nice dinner in my favourite restaurant in LA which is called Café Des Artistes.
All the time. I used to have really horrible nightmares where I’d swallowed the remote control to the TV. Don’t ask me where that one came from. It was really horrifying.
Frozen pizza rolls, chicken pot pie, ice cream – which I don’t normally eat but keep for my friends. And frozen garlic bread that I really love.
It’s convenience food.
[Laughs] Is riding horses enough? Seriously, when I’m working ten months out of the year, the show keeps me fit. As I do the stunts it’s quite hard work. When we first started I had to do a programme of sit-ups and push-ups. The wire stuff is all about stomach control and it’s unbelievably difficult.
Sometimes. I try to make up my own songs – I just go off. I fancy I could write but I think I would probably suck. I’d be best sticking to acting.