Shameless season finale8/1/2023 ![]() ![]() What was your original plan for how to end the season? You had to rewrite the finale and last week’s episode to address Rossum’s departure. You can get away with it once but the second time is more painful. I didn’t feel like we could play the same plot twist gag twice in one season. And even if Emmy is too busy and can’t make it work, we’ll still talk about Fiona.ĭid you ever consider bringing Justin Chatwin back or did you not want to repeat bringing Noel Fisher back for Cameron Monaghan’s then-last episode? We both said that her character wasn’t being killed off and was an integral part of the show, and that we’d note here and there how Fiona is doing as we kept her character alive. We’d been together so long that it wasn’t the right moment to talk about it. Some of it will depend on Emmy and if she wants to do a scene or a phone call here or there. I think she’s so central to the family and to the show that we’ll certainly keep her progress abroad alive. Will you reveal where she went and how she’s doing going forward? Or will it be an out of sight, out of mind experience from the Gallaghers, who didn’t notice Liam was rarely home? She looked around and saw that everybody was grown up - or mostly grown up.įiona is gone but obviously won’t be forgotten. With all the responsibilities Fiona has with her family, we felt she needed to step completely away so she could no longer be totally involved and could determine who she is on her own and get a fresh start. Often, they come back because they miss it. ![]() What went into the decision to have Fiona leave the state?Įverybody I know who leaves Chicago and the Northeast goes somewhere warm and decides it’s time for a different climate. As for Frank, he’s still the same proverbial cockroach who finds a way to survive (and annoy everyone).īelow, Wells talks with The Hollywood Reporter about how the season nine finale changed to accommodate Rossum’s departure, how the series will handle her departure and if season 10 will be the end of the Showtime favorite. be involved at the end with what to do with the house." Rather than simply seeing her in a flashback as Frank reminisces while dying, like we got in the actual series finale, she would've been able to join everyone at The Alibi for one final celebration.How 'Shameless' Is Preparing for Emmy Rossum's Exit: "It Doesn't Feel Like Goodbye Forever"Īnd that’s largely true: Debbie has a career as a welder and has stepped up to help take care of the family - including her daughter Carl is mulling a career in fast food - or returning to military school if his estranged girlfriend has any say over it and Lip is preparing to be a father as he continues to stick with his AA program. "The idea was with Frank's dementia being discovered, there's a call and she comes back to help everyone figure it out and. We put it up on the writers' room board and then took it down a few times," he told the outlet. The travel was such a mess that we never got to the point of my actual writing it. A very minor but sad result of everything that's happened in the pandemic."Īs for what Fiona's storyline would've been during the final season, Wells had a few different ideas. That was the biggest disappointment: not being able to make that work out because we all wanted it to happen. "It was impossible to figure out how to get her back. We wanted her to return and had some storylines about her coming back and she wanted to do it," showrunner John Wells told The Hollywood Reporter. " We were trying to get Emmy - and Emmy wanted to come back. While there had been plans for Rossum - who originally left the show after season nine - to return, scheduling conflicts due to COVID-19 ultimately proved too difficult to overcome. Leading up to the series finale of Shameless, many fans wondered whether Emmy Rossum's Fiona Gallagher would return for the show's eleventh season. ![]()
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