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We Can Do Hard Things

276. Dan Levy’s Good News: No One Knows What They’re Doing

We Can Do Hard Things

Glennon Doyle & Audacy

Society & Culture, Relationships, Education, Self-improvement

4.841.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Brilliant actor, director, and Schitt’s Creek co-creator, Dan Levy, is here diving into the heart and complexity of friendship, grief, creativity, and the power of curiosity. Discover: Abby’s recent grief and how Dan’s new movie, Good Grief, impacted her; Glennon, Abby, Amanda and Dan attempt to answer, “Where did they go?;” The one simple question that started the Schitt’s Creek revolution; and How to start investing in the friendships that will sustain us. About Dan: Daniel Levy is an Emmy-award winning creator and actor who has built his career telling vibrant and comedic stories. Levy's directorial debut Good Grief, an original film that he wrote, produced, and stars in, is available now for streaming on Netflix. He is best known for his work on one of the most beloved shows on television, Schitt’s Creek, which he co-created with his father Eugene Levy, and which garnered countless awards, including nine Emmy® wins for its sixth and final season. Levy is also the founder of DL Eyewear, a gender-fluid eyewear brand that gives back through its support of small businesses and entrepreneurs located in historically disadvantaged communities. Watch Good Grief: https://www.netflix.com/title/81462549 IG: @instadanjlevy To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Dan Lovey, I love you.

0:18.0

Dan, I'm Gwenin and this is Abby. I know who everyone is here. I know who everyone is here. I know who everyone is. What a thrill. You have three massive fans right here. Not just of every other

0:27.9

thing you've done in Shits Creek obviously, but of the movie Good Grief. We loved it so much. Thank you so much. It's so beautiful. We have a daughter who's a musician, okay? She's in high school. And she calls us from the library sometimes freaking out because she's just

0:47.0

put out a song and she has to go into the hallway of high school and walk through the hallway

0:52.1

while people are listening to her most vulnerable

0:54.4

words that she has put out into the world like here is my heart and I'm trying

0:59.2

the hardest to do this thing and she will come home and say being an artist is so embarrassing.

1:05.5

I wish I was that evolved in high school to be perfectly honest.

1:09.6

I wish I had that kind of like professional and emotional and creative clarity.

1:14.0

That's amazing.

1:15.4

Yeah, it's very weird.

1:16.9

It's been a very strange time because in a way, like for me the great joy of all of this is making things. I love to make things.

1:27.4

I love to build things from the ground up. I love to conceive of ideas and bring them to life.

1:33.2

To me, there's no greater thrill creatively

1:36.0

than thinking something in your head

1:38.0

and literally watching it physically manifest.

1:42.1

I remember the very first day I walked onto the sets of Shits Creek and it was like,

1:46.7

it was the closest I think I've come to walking into a dream

1:51.3

because these places and these details and the feel existed in my

1:57.7

head for so long as we were writing it and then suddenly you walk into these

2:00.8

physical places and they are exactly what you had pictured them to be.

2:06.5

So it's kind of like, it's this wonderful process and then you have to put it out into the world and

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