WARNING: The following contains spoilers from Familia Supra Gallegorious Omnia!, Sundays episode ofShameless.
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Is Lip doomed to repeat the sins of his father?
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Now, he faces certain expulsion.
School had always been easy for him, but the politics of academia were not such a natural fit.
That is, if he can bring himself to make a true effort for once in his life.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: So, I guess I have to ask: What happens after Youens drives off?
What does Lip do?
JEREMY ALLEN WHITE:I dont know.
[Laughs]
What do you hope he does?
I hope that Lip walks in.
Theres a chance he could have watched Youens drive off and made a run for it.
But at least since [Paradise Lost], Lips known that he needed to make a change.
Lips struggle really for the whole series has been just to not end up like Frank.
Yeah, Im curious.
And I dont think John knew then.
You mentioned that Lip is terrified of becoming like Frank.
Might Lip be doomed to repeat these patterns?
Theres something really interesting about the Sean character, who Dermot Mulroney plays.
They tend to make the same mistakes and follow the same destructive patterns.
Because growing up in that neighborhood, getting help with drinking is just such a foreign concept.
Its so normal to just not change.
This world weve created is harsh.
From the outside, he could not be doing any better.
But he just cant get it together.
It reminded me of that best part of my day scene inGood Will Hunting.
He feels like hes carrying the weight of the world even though hes not all the time.
Its a lot of pressure for him.
At a certain point, too, context loses its importance.
The fact that Lip is so bright despite his upbringing isnt going to be charming forever.
Do you think Lip will ever be able to remove context from his situation?
Will he ever be able to grow up, basically, as Youens demanded?
Its been a struggle for Lip to adapt.
I dont necessarily feel that was foreshadowed at the top of the season.
Was Helene a real trigger there?
There seems to be a pattern going all the way back to Karen.
I think that yeah, absolutely, what happened with Helene was the thing that started all this.
He just never had an opportunity to get anything else figured out, you know?
Kind of like Fiona, he jumps into relationship after relationship without actually working on himself.
Helene never gave him any reason to believe that was a possibility, but he ran with it anyway.
At the risk of understating it,Shamelessis kind of intense.
Yeah, its a bit frustrating.
But going to work and getting paid to play around is kind of the best I cant really complain.
I love the Gallaghers, I really do.
Can we ever hope for a happy ending for them?
But at the same time, thats not usually how life works.
Going into season 7, can we hope for Fiona to stay single for a little while?
I think it would be good for her, but I think theres something there with Sean and Fiona.
I really dont know.
The relationshipseemedgood for her, but he was an addict, you know?
And I just dont want anybody to end up with someone like Frank.
As long as everyone stays far away from anyone like Frank.
