Shameless US S03E02

"If the milk doesn’t smell good, don’t drink it..."

Hurry up! What do you think, I’m getting younger? Skinnier? I’m not!" Dressed in the last look at the end of a five-hour photo shoot, actress and singer-songwriter Emmy Rossum — looking sleek, sophisticated and sultry, like a well-polished Hollywood screen siren of old — is playfully sassing the photographer and crew. She modulates her tone and stance, conjuring that other classic Tinseltown staple: the wise-cracking comedienne. The atmosphere is enhanced by Sentimental Journey, Rossum’s sophomore album, which releases later this month, playing in the background. On it, she sings 1940s standards. And the setting of the shoot itself, a retro joint in Hollywood—the kind sympathetic to dames on the go, debutantes on the town and ladies of a certain age (or of the night)—is exactly the sort of place where such songs are sung. Rossum seems to be channeling the sort of woman who can wield a sharp word alongside a cigarette holder while holding her gin. It’s also the kind of trendy but not too scrubbed-up drinks destination that might attract Fiona, the nudity-friendly free spirit burdened by familial responsibilities whom Rossum plays on Shameless, Showtime’s dark comedy series that bega its third season this week.

Born and reared on New York’s tony Upper East Side, Rossum attended the equally tony Spence School, but her reality wasn’t as gilded as these facts suggest. While she grew up with a surfeit of attention and support as the only child of a single mother, a professional photographer who shot the annual reports for companies such as Apple and Exxon Mobil, she grew up with neither a father nor much cash. “My mother was both my mother and father,” says Rossum, explaining that her parents split before she was born, that she and her mother shared a bedroom and that every spare dime was allotted to her tuition. "My mom is an artist and intellectual, which for her is basically the same thing," she says. "Education was paramount."


While Rossum didn’t yet envision a career in entertainment, she was nonetheless precociously determined. At age 12, on her own initiative, she phoned acting coach Flo Salant Greenberg of The New Actors Workshop. "I’d read an article in The New York Times on Matt LeBlanc — I was really into Friends — and Flo was his teacher. So I looked her up in the Yellow Pages." She started classes shortly thereafter, and found herself among a group of more seasoned and professional actors. This prepared her for her debut film, Songcatcher, in which she played Deladis Slocumb, a musically talented orphan in turn-of-the-century Appalachia.

Rossum starred alongside Aidan Quinn and Janet McTeer, received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Debut Performance, sang a duet with Dolly Parton on the film’s soundtrack and signed with the manager she’s had ever since. She was 13. "I realized the decisions I was making were going to affect my whole life," Rossum says, adding that her mother was supportive, emphasizing the importance of those decisions with the caveat that "the second it stops being fun, you’re going to stop doing it." Those words, Rossum says, always made her feel she "wasn’t locked in. I still think about them."

TV work came quickly, too—she portrayed a young Audrey Hepburn in the ABC TV movie The Audrey Hepburn Story. But it was the trifecta of Mystic River, in which she played Sean Penn’s murdered daughter; the big-budget Roland Emmerich eco-disaster movie The Day After Tomorrow, in which she co-starred opposite Jake Gyllenhaal; and The Phantom of the Opera that catapulted Rossum onto the plushest red carpets. Having left Spence after the fifth grade, obtaining her high school diploma by age 15 via Stanford’s online Education Program for Gifted Youth, she was progressing professionally full throttle. But she was also confused. "I didn’t feel I’d earned [the level of success]," she says. "I was conscious it could all disappear." As her image was splashed on the covers of magazines, Rossum sought security by becoming what might be considered the quintessence of an Upper East Side-Audrey Hepburn hybrid: ladylike, refined and demurely reserved. "I didn’t realize how claustrophobic that would be," she says. "There are many things you try to prove as a kid that you keep trying to prove into your 20s."

What followed was a period of trial and error. "I did Poseidon, thinking a big ensemble would feel safe," she says, explaining that she made the majority of her personal and professional decisions based on logic, what she considered sound, objective reasoning. "I talked myself into projects and relationships that weren’t always right for me," she states. Now, however, her MO is trusting her gut. "If the milk doesn’t smell good, don’t drink it. It can be that simple." It’s this same determination that also ultimately led to the part that has re-energized her career and confirmed her commitment to it. It’s also the part that very nearly wasn’t. "They didn’t want to see me; they wouldn’t even [let me] audition," says Rossum of the Shameless producers. "They thought my image too glamorous, that I couldn’t not be pretty."

Having read and loved the script, Rossum decided to fight fast and hard. She made a tape of herself as Fiona, sent it from New York to L.A., and made sure it got to the producers. "They watched it and I flew out the next day." Three auditions later, she was informed there was only one note on her performance: that she had the job, remembers Rossum, who was so deep in character she let loose with a string of expletives upon hearing the news— "which only seemed to confirm [the producers'] decision." So the golden girl has grown up, shedding her perfectly polished image along the way. "Fiona is very sexually liberated. She’s also a loudmouth, and there’s safety in that," Rossum says. "But I’m not the sex-on-the-first-date kind of girl." What Rossum does identify with is Fiona’s loyalty— "I’m a very loyal person too, sometimes to a fault" — as well as her ability to adapt, to roll with life while maintaining a broader perspective. "I don’t let anything send me into a tailspin. I never have; it’s not in my nature."

But while she might have intuited this strength before, now she knows it.


Television Series: Shameless US (S03E02)
Release Date: January 2013
Actress: Emmy Rossum & Emma Greenwell
Video Clips Credit: Deep at Sea







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