After spending over a decade playing Lip on Shameless, Jeremy Allen White has been expanding his horizons with new acting gigs. He’s currently ordering other chefs around in a chaotic kitchen as part one of the best Hulu original shows, The Bear. Now, he's teaming up with Zac Efron for the new A24 movie The Iron Claw. Given that it's a wrestling movie, he and the cast had to bulk up to play real-life entertainers, and it turns out the fandom surrounding White’s hit dramedy played a key role in that process.
The Iron Claw's Jeremy Allen White, Zac Efron, Stanley Simons and Harris Dickinson had to portray the members of the Von Erich family -- the iconic wrestlers who rose to prominence during the '70s and '80s. So the actors definitely had their work cut out of them. When some of the cast got together for a feature interview with EW, Simons, who plays Mike Von Erich, spoke about a work perk that came courtesy of White and how it contributed to their prep for the movie:
