Evan Rachel Wood on Merkins and Manson

Thank wood-ness for Duchess of Skinnage Kate Winslet, who you'll recall talked Evan Rachel Wood into doing a nude scene for the upcoming film Mildred Pierce. In a new interview, Evan dishes a bit more on how Kate convinced her to drop trou:

“I always had a rule that I was only going to do topless and never the whole package, I have to have some kind of mystery! But she then explained to me what a merkin was…"

Enchanting Evan also says that she and on/off boyfriend Marilyn Manson are off again, but "he had a hand in raising me!" Which is appropriate, since Evan's had a hand in raising certain parts of her male fans.

Regardless of your opinions of Mr. Manson and his music, you have to admit that the man has enviable taste in ladies. Before he got Wood (when she was nineteen years old, mind you), Manson was married to the queen of burlesque herself, Dita Von Teese. Forget about being teesed--Dita happily shows on Mr. Skin what her hubby saw for years in movies like Saint Francis and the ultra-porny Andrew Blake Five Stars. We now know who Marilyn was singing about in his tune "The Beautiful People"!

Pre-Dita, there was another porcelain-skinned, raven-haired beauty in Manson's life: Rose McGowan. The pair were engaged for a few years--he even had a cameo in her black comedy Jawbreaker--but Rose's blooms were at their breast before she took up with the spooky singer. Mr. Skin members can enter the dark side and see Rose get thorny and horny in Lewis and Clark and George, go all the way in Going All the Way, and enjoy a threesome in The Doom Generation.

Goth girls do it better!