# @variety on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/Dal09UEAUqe
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/67660130-variety-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-07-10T00:15:01.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Variety (@Variety) — https://gondola.cc/Variety

## Caption

Emmy Rossum asked to be paid more on #Shameless in Season 3 and got turned down. She asked for equal pay to William H. Macy before Season 8 and was “shut down pretty fast.” Then her salary dispute leaked to the public and got “resolved within a day.”

“It’s always scary asking for what you think you are worth... I was on a writer’s retreat, and I was procrastinating, and I opened up Twitter, and it was a headline that we were in a stalemate, and I was shook. It’s a private business negotiation, and I never imagined it would become public... People seemed quite surprised that I wasn’t already being paid equal. And it was resolved within a day. I was shocked, and quite frankly, very surprised that we actually got it... I only desire to remain professional, and my focus is never on money, it’s on what’s fair and what’s right, and I believe that people should be paid for their labor. It was really about being valued equally when I was doing equal work. For me, it was as simple as that.” (via Call Her Daddy)

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