Travicity
01-15-2011, 03:04 AM
It was a shaggy-haired William H. Macy who showed up this afternoon in Pasadena for a TCA session hyping his new John Wells-produced Showtime series Shameless that premiered last Sunday. He portrays Frank Gallagher, the single father of a wildly dysfunctional clan who is unapologetic about his chronic alcoholism. And in fact, so is Macy himself -- unapologetic about his character's drinking issues, that is.
"It sure is fun to play someone who's toasted all the time," Macy said. "I feel like I spent my whole career speaking for the little guy, the disenfranchised. A lot of people in this country right now are toasted, drunk as skunks...and I speak for them, for the people who like to start the day with a couple of brewskis...I have the role of the century here. Plus, the wife really digs the hair. This (touching his facial hair), not so much."
DL
"It sure is fun to play someone who's toasted all the time," Macy said. "I feel like I spent my whole career speaking for the little guy, the disenfranchised. A lot of people in this country right now are toasted, drunk as skunks...and I speak for them, for the people who like to start the day with a couple of brewskis...I have the role of the century here. Plus, the wife really digs the hair. This (touching his facial hair), not so much."
DL