Furious actor Emmy Rossum, 40, recently opened up about a very specific downside to growing up on-screen: people struggling to separate the art from the artist.
In Emmy's case, that "art" was the nude scenes she filmed as Fiona Gallagher on Shameless, a role she stepped into at 24 and played for nine years in the show's 10-year run.
As a guest on Maria Sharapova's podcast, Pretty Tough, Emmy reflected on the real-life consequences of her on-screen nudity: "It made dating quite tricky because of the nudity on the show," she said. "All of the guys that I would go out with had preconceived notions of who I was, or how I was, sexually. It was totally bizarre."
Then, she recalled one particularly memorable date when the guy really "couldn't separate" Emmy from Fiona: "He took me out on a date, and he was like, 'I really want to be president someday,' and I was like, 'Wow, that's like a great goal.'" But apparently, he feared that dating someone who'd been "exposed" in that way on TV might impact his path to the White House, asking Emmy if she thought this could be "tricky for someone wanting to run for office."
"I was like, 'This is an insane conversation to have,'" she said of the encounter. And judging by the response to the now-viral clip, people wholeheartedly agree.
Nothing screams "I am a normal, well-adjusted person" like thinking this is the only thing standing between you and becoming POTUS...
No one illustrated the absurdity of that logic better than this redditor, who applied the same thinking to Emmy’s Phantom of the Opera character, Christine Daaé: “I really wanted to date her, but I wasn't sure how her opera career would affect my life goals. Also there's the whole Phantom thing to worry about," they joked.
Jokes aside, though, Emmy’s comments did get people thinking about some bigger questions; namely, whether nude scenes create the same kinds of “preconceived notions” for male actors...
Food for thought...where do you stand on this? Let us know in the comments.
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