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- 1am one of millions.
- The power of three will set us free...

In places you can't even imagine,
in forms you'd never believe.

You will never be saved,
and you will never be free!

The power of three.

If the show were
just about three witches,

| don't think the show
would have worked at all.

Everything feels the same,
so nothing's changed, right?

We landed on a mantra, which is
it's a show about three sisters

who happen to be witches,

not three witches
who happen to be sisters.

And once we found that mantra,
we stuck with that

and realised
this is a family show first.

This is a show about women

who are in their early 20s,
who have all the real issues

that any other woman has
in their early 20s,

and sisters, who have to deal
with each other with this secret.

Me, keep a secret?

Hello? Wrong Halliwell.

One of the things that was attractive
about the show,

especially at the very beginning,

was the mythology of magic,

in terms of the love
that the sisters had for each other

and this amazing gift
that they'd been given

by the other women
in their family.

| think that the timing
of the show was perfect.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer had been
absolutely enormous,

so the whole sort of
girl-power element,

Charmed definitely had that aspect.

We talked a lot
in the early days about

metaphors for female empowerment
and female relationships.

The power that they drew
from each other

on a more practical, emotional level.

In the beginning,
Phoebe was the baby,

Piper was the middle sister
and Prue was the eldest.

We defined those characters a lot
by the psychological dynamics

of what it is to be the eldest, what it is
to be the middle, to be the youngest.

Please tell me
you didn't use your powers.

- Don't put me in the middle.
- I'm not, you were born in the middle.

What Shannen and Alyssa and | had
was a very special chemistry

that was not manufactured,
was not forced. It was very easy.

It's lightning in a bottle.

And we got very lucky with Rose.

We got very lucky with Rose because
she didn't try to be part of something.

She was so individual that she was
just like, "This is me, this is who | am."

And she was twirling in her own
little splendor over here,

and it worked for her character

because the character
had a different dad than we did,

and she was, you know,
kind of the outsider, so it helped.

But thank the Lord for Rose,

because | don't think
anybody else could have pulled it off.

It's nice to meet you.

It was a little scary, because
it's the premise of the show,

is the power of three,
and these three sisters.

But it was also really exciting,
because what happened is

suddenly Piper is the oldest,
Phoebe is in the middle

and Paige is the rebel.

It shook everything up.
Which was really fun as a writer too.

You know, it ultimately infused a lot of
energy into the story-breaking process.

Strange, isn't it?

Now, on top of everything else,
you have to play the middle sister.

The writers really walk
a very fine line

of having the show be fun
and light and sort of campy,

and then deal with the real issues.

Thanks, Leo.

I didn't mean you couldn't
use the stairs.

The thing | found most fascinating,
in talking with the fans of the show,

is that they really liked
the deeper issues

more than even the demon stuff.

It was, to them,
a show about sisters.

You had a really wonderful
relationship show

wrapped up
in this cool mythology

that let us talk about anything.

| would always tell the writers,

"Anything goes, as long
as it started with the girls.”

In order to ground this craziness,

it had to be a real story
about women in their 20s,

dealing with love and loss,
with jobs, with losing jobs,

with friends, with family.

It had to be always about that
first and foremost,

because if we just went for the
craziness, then what was grounding it?

It became an untethered balloon.

People aren't gonna come back
every week to watch the wackiness.

They're coming back to watch the girls,
the family, the sisterhood.

The wackiness is
the icing on the cake.

| had the best power on earth.

People always ask questions,

"If you were a superhero, what kind
of power would you wanna be?"

And everyone says, "Oh, I'd
be invisible, or | wanna fly." No.

Orbing is hands down
the coolest power on the planet.

One, | could throw something at you
if | didn't like you.

Lamp.

Two, | could touch your hand
and we could go to Paris for lunch.

Would never have to
take an airplane.

I'm wearing my sun block.
Bye, guys.

And I'll admit,
I've been on airplanes many a times

and | sit there fantasizing about
how I could do things if | were orbing.

Which is sad, because it's not
in fact real, but, God, | wish it were.

That's the magic of Charmed.
It's the wish fulfillment.

But what was
interesting on the show

is that even though
these girls had magic,

there weren't that many shortcuts.

They would use these spells and,
like, chaos would happen.

They were always in trouble
for using magic for personal gain.

But they wouldn't stop doing it,
which all feels really true to me.

| wouldn't stop using magic,
personally, if | could.

My son does it at home,
it's just perfectly horrifying to me.

He's 3 years old
and he'll go, "Freeze!"

And I'm just like,
"Oh, God, please don't do that.”

It actually came pretty organically
from the moment in the pilot

where | was just
reaching for something

for him to stop.

Chef Moore?

We were kind of just stumbling
through going, you know,

"What do we do for this power?
What do we do for that?"

And we'd just kind of
come up with it.

And then you just
wave your arm at it.

| was very embarrassed
the first season.

But also nobody primed me,

so | get there for the first, you know,
episode that I'm shooting,

and I'm supposed to
call out for a candle.

What are you people talking about?

I think the key to it all
was to not fight it.

Because, you know, at first
| think | had a tendency to be like,

"Oh, my God, what am | doing?
And what am | wearing?"

Nice outfit.

Back at you, sis.

The key to it was just to sort of,
you know, go with it

and allow yourself to find
the humor in it as a character

and put yourself in these situations

that you would
clearly never be in in life,

and how would someone
react to that.

The thing that made
Charmed fun to do--

If you're gonna be on a series
for many, many years,

it can get pretty darn boring
if it's the same thing every week.

Well, that was never
the case on Charmed.

Every week,
it was completely different,

whether it would be bats
or vampires or dragons.

It was never the same,

so each week, you had the arc
with the girls’ dramatic lives,

on top of that, you mix in the demons
and the warlocks and the fireballs,

and you have
a nice stew of fun.

| embraced it all, it was all fun.

You know, any time | got to
throw on a wig, | was excited.

And why do | always
get stuck with the wig?

Trust me, you don't.

First I'd look down and be in, like,
this genie outfit with this wig,

and that's absurd, and then, you know,
the action on top of that.

| was losing my balance
inside a bottle.

You know.
The absurdity never ended.

I wish to resurrect
the lost city of Zanbar.

The thing about this show was that
we had no rules.

We could make up
any world at any time,

and there were no barriers.

It's not like we were doing a cop show
or a hospital show.

Leprechaun!

At one point, | couldn't e-mail my
friends or tell them what was going on

because they would
stop believing me.

Ever date a little person?

"What'd you do at work today?"

"Oh, | had a leprechaun straddle
my neck. What'd you do?"

But that's part
of the charm of Charmed.

There was many moments like that,

where we're kind of like,
we're in a cave in high heels,

and you're like,
"Yep. This is what | do. This is my job."

Even if they didn't like it that much,
they would sell it,

and that's one thing
I'm always grateful to them for,

because they would sit up
and show up and try to sell

some of the crazy, wacky stuff
that we were asking them to do.

Okay. Yeah.

A demon monkey stole my hearing.

For the characters, it was real.

So you could never play something
with a wink to the audience of,

"Oh, isn't this absurd?"

Because the whole premise
really worked with the girls.

This is their real situation,
what they're really dealing with.

They really were dealing
with these absurd situations,

and so it can't really be
that absurd to them,

and if it is, it was handled
in really funny ways.

Oh, Paige is proposing
violence against the monkey.

It turns out, you know,
fun and campy and...

Exactly what it was supposed to be.

| will not use my powers
for anything but good.

| know you believe that,
and | know you want it to be true,

but, Cole, it's just a matter of time.

You're wrong.

Even though Charmed
was a fantasy,

| think the strength and the reason
it lasted so long is because it was

based in sort of universal truths
and the humanity of these people

that happened to be witches.

You really ought to
get yourself a prince,

in case this ever happens again.

- Who are you?
- We'll send you the bill.

We got our best stories from
truthful human stories,

so it's just like, you know, any woman
who finds their match in a guy,

it's gonna be what they're needing
for that time in their life.

Yeah, in case you haven't noticed,
which | know you haven't,

my body, my thoughts, my dreams
have all gone wonky.

Well, I'm sure that it's just
normal pregnancy stuff.

We can talk about this later,
if you want to.

Oh, | think you should
talk about it now.

We felt like our trailers were bugged.

Because what was
going on in the scripts,

we had been talking about
in our real lives,

and we were just like,
"Okay, where's the microphone?"

- You're pregnant?
- Well, | was, but now | think Leo is.

Are your boobs
always this sore?

It really wasn't about
who the guys were.

We always thought about how would
it be most interesting with the girls.

You know, who would
bring out the best in them,

or some dark side of them,
who would challenge them the most?

I'd say the majority of shows are
about guys, and the female actresses

are in the situation that
the boyfriends are in our show.

Which are servicing our leads,
who are these powerful females.

| don't think there's anyone where
we didn't have good chemistry.

Where it wasn't--

You know, where it was like
pulling things out of them.

It just always felt good and right.

What was | saying?

When | first started the show,

they tried having me
have a boyfriend every week.

You didn't come home all night?

No, Mom, why?

Paige isn't a ho.

What is this, a brothel?

You didn't mention that.
I'm a little short on cash.

But | drew the line with them
in the first season

after | was on a couch

and the girls would walk in and they
caught me making out with some guy,

and you never saw the guy again
and it was just me saying,

"| can't believe | got caught kissing--"

Whoever this guy was,
God bless him. God bless me.

It was 6:30 in the morning
and | meet this guy,

I'm like,
"Hey, Bob, nice to meet you."

On the couch:

"All right, then. Nice working with you.
Never see you again.”

| thought, "Okay, that | cannot do."

Well, | try never to get involved
with guys | can't see regularly.

So don't feel bad.
| mean, | understand.

Strangely enough, Brian and | had
known each other before the show.

Which was weird.

Because it made it weird.
It was like kissing my brother.

We were familiar enough
with each other

to kind of be comfortable
in each other's presence,

but familiar enough that
you didn't wanna, like, kiss him.

So we made kind of a point of being
in character, staying in character,

we didn't talk a lot about
our personal lives with each other.

Because when we were around
each other, we were Piper and Leo,

and it was very easy
to stay within that.

We had just known each other
for so long, it was so easy.

- Hi.
- Hi.

I'll be in the attic.

That's tough on actors.

If you have to fall in love
and break up

with the same people all the time,
it's very hard.

All TV shows have it.
If you're cursed with success,

the long-term nature of it
is what becomes so difficult,

because it's forever
that you're doing this,

and you have to create
reasons to keep couples apart

and bring them back together.

So they did have their
trials and tribulations.

We got to use all the things
you'd normally deal with in drama,

you know, marriage, boyfriends,
but yet it's all amplified

by the fact that they're witches,
and that they're magical.

But it all, | think,
was based in reality.

They always sort of learned and grew
from each of their relationships.

It ended in the way it started,
which is a show about sisters.

What we tried to make the show,
and | think we largely succeeded,

was to have the demonic stories,
or have the magical stories,

resonate, reflect, bring out, draw out

what was happening
in the sisters' lives.

It was definitely fun,
and there was always this

almost little-girl element to it of...

You felt like a little girl,
because it's what you would sort of

utilize in your imagination
when you were little.

My career had two very substantial
growth spurts on TV.

One was Who's the Boss?, which
I did from 11 to 19 years old,

which is, you Know, monumental.

And Charmed being, you know,
early 20s to basically mid-30s,

and those are two really substantial
times in your life.

You know, emotionally,
physically, everything.

The last day of filming was very sad.

The last scene we shot was basically
the ending of the show,

which was Phoebe
and Coop getting married.

It was really touching. It was really sad,
and it was really strange because,

you know, we kind of functioned as one
big dysfunctional family for so long.

They're always gonna
be a part of my life.

It was one of the best gifts
I've ever had.

There's so much stuff,
and there are so many people,

and there's so many
great times and it's like,

it's one of those things where you
won't really know how great you had it

till ten years down the line.

We had a great time,
| wouldn't trade it for the world.