That’s my job as an actress, to challenge myself and do different things, even though it’s different than what people assume I’m inclined to do. TAYLOR: About that… does it ever get annoying how interviewers continue to bring up Shameless as your “dirty and gritty” role? ROSSUM: Yeah, I wore about five different wigs for the movie, and it was definitely more about glamour than my television show, Shameless, that I do, because that’s all about being down, and dirty, and gritty. TAYLOR: Your hair is ridiculous in the movie. I’ve never played a bad girl before, and she’s kind of deliciously evil. She’s a dark witch, or caster, and-very glamourous, very seducing, very self-centered. She’s kind of a scene-stealer in the book, and very self-indulgent. When I finally got the call, I was excited-I was really excited about the character. This is a script that I’ve really loved for a long time, and I kept hounding my agent to tell me when they were going to start auditioning people. JOHN TAYLOR: So, you have a new movie coming out, Beautiful Creatures… Interview caught up with Rossum at home following a taping on Jimmy Fallon (“Charlie Sheen came to say ‘hello’ in my dressing room,” she recalls, “he was minty”), where we discussed preconceived notions, good girls, bad girls, fearlessness, and singing to New York City butchers. Adapted from the book of the same name, Creatures gleefully purposes the Stephenie Meyer formula as Southern Fried Gothic-with steamy, vibrant New Orleans replacing dour Seattle sassy witches assuming the role once held by brooding vampires and werewolves and a forbidden romance prompted by girl rather than boy.Īnd yet, for all of Beautiful Creatures‘ moving parts, Rossum’s saucy turn as villainess Ridley Duchannes may very well be the film’s secret weapon. Rossum next appears in Beautiful Creatures, Hollywood’s most recent foray into YA fiction and Twilight successor hopeful. Macy in the critically acclaimed Shameless, sharing a quiet, intimate kiss with Gerard Butler in 2004’s The Phantom of the Opera (a performance that cemented Rossum as the youngest Golden Globe nominee in history), or dabbling in a musical career during her spare moments, 26-year-old Emmy Rossum’s work ethic is tough to match. Whether eating up the small screen alongside William H.
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