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On “Shameless,” Rossum's character, Fiona, is the eldest of six children in a dysfunctional working class family. Because it's a single-parent household - and the one parent, Frank (Macy), is an unemployed alcoholic - Fiona is a mother figure for the hard-partying Gallagher family. Rossum filmed a scene Wednesday morning in which her character gets her house's power turned back on.
“It's raw and jagged and more real,” said Rossum, describing her role later that afternoon in her trailer. Rossum previously appeared in the films “Mystic River” and “The Phantom of the Opera.” “It's what I always wanted to do. I'm channeling my inner ballsyness. I think I'm becoming (gutsier) by playing her.”
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