Christian Isaiah Recalls The Rat-Infested Alley He Had To Sleepwalk Through While Filming Shameless – Looper

Young actor Christian Isaiah reminisced about one of the nuttier situations he had to recreate while playing Liam on “Shameless.” During the Season 8 finale, “Sleepwalking,” which marked the end of Isaiah’s first season on the show, the Gallagher family discovers that Liam is a sleepwalker. His sleepwalking took the character, and the actor, to some very uncomfortable places.

“One scene I had to work first thing in the morning, and it was like thirty degrees [outside] and in the scene, Lip (Jeremy Allen White) finds Liam asleep outside in the wet grass. It was wet and freezing cold in Chicago. Also, another scene in that episode I had to sleepwalk down a dark alley with no shoes on, and there were dead rats in the alley,” Isaiah said to StarryMag. “While filming that same scene, we heard gunshots and police helicopters flying over us. Very interesting night!!!”

Fortunately for Isaiah, it wasn’t all horrible, and he had fun with the cast. “One time Steve Howey chained Ethan, who plays Carl, his seat to like a wall. And then we put a fart machine under it so when he tried to put it down, he sat in it, and we made it fart,” he explained to iHollywoodTV. Sounds like family to us.