The Shameless cast was back together again (Picture: AP)
The Shameless cast was back together again and united in their ambition to incite change in Hollywood.
The Bear star Jeremy Allen White, 32, who played troubled Lip Gallagher, Shanola Hampton, 46, and Steve Howey, 46, who served on the show as his family’s neighbours Veronica Fisher and Kevin Ball, were amongst the familiar faces gathered at the picket line.
They have joined the US union Sag-Aftra strike, which is due to multiple reasons, including a lack of fair pay for actors as well as the need for assurance about the rise of AI and the potential for it to use an actors’ likeness.
It comes in the middle of the strike from the Writers’ Guild of America (WGA) which began in May after failure to reach an agreement with the trade association Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) over pay.
More Shameless actors came along too including Noel Fisher, 39, Isidora Goreshter, 41, as well as Zach McGowan, 43, who plated Jody Silverman. With so many of them present, the gang gathered together for a big reunion photo.
Shanola shared the snap and wrote: ‘Reunited,’ and called them a ‘forever family’.
Shameless cast proudly waved their signage (Picture: Instagram / Shanola Hampton)
Noel, who played Mickey Milkovich shared a similar sentiment to his former co-star. He wrote: ‘On the line with the family.’
His actress wife Layla Alizada, 45, was also present, but she didn’t have a role on the show.
Isidora, who played Mickey’s ex-wife Svetlana Yevgenivna, shared a little more about why they were protesting.
‘Did you know that they want to start SCANNING background actors so they can just digitally multiply them and insert them into scenes using AI?’ she wrote.
Jeremy was at the strike that took place at Warner Bros in Los Angeles (Picture: SplashNews.com)
She explained that this would mean a loss of income for a lot of people.
‘This industry is a team sport. We are out here fighting for everyone across labor lines.
‘Out of the over 160,000 members, roughly 87% still don’t qualify for health insurance because they can’t meet the contract requirements! (Hi! I am one of those people. Weird to think that just a few years ago my face was on the side of the WB building and then I got my insurance stripped from me in the middle of a pandemic 2 months before I gave birth) anyway.’
Shanola called them a forever family (Picture: Instagram / Shanola Hampton)
She concluded: ‘I LOVE this job. And I love every single crew member that I get to meet along the way. we are all in this together.’
The US remake of Shameless ran from 2011 to 2021, and was the longest-running original scripted series on the television network Showtime.
The 11 series followed single father Frank Gallagher [William H. Macy] who rarely had much money and suffered from alcohol addiction. The dysfunctional relationship he shared with his six children who often had to take care of themselves was a major plot point.
Some of the Two and a Half Men cast also reunited at the picket line this week, and one person looks very different.
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