Interview: Dan Levy On 'Schitt's Creek'

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🗓️ 15 January 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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It's Tuesday. Sam talks to Dan Levy about the comedy series he co-created with his father, actor Eugene Levy. They discuss why Dan has always had to pay his own way, choosing to make his character on "Schitt's Creek" pansexual, and what he doesn't miss about working as a host for MTV. And, uh, Beyonce may have come up, too. Email the show at [email protected] or tweet @NPRItsBeenAMin with your feedback.

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0:00.0	From NPR, I'm Sam Sanders, it's been a minute.
0:08.2	Today we're talking about a TV show and a character and an actor making something transformative.
0:15.2	I really do believe that TV can be transformative.
0:18.0	TV shows can create these worlds where we see things we haven't seen yet.
0:22.4	And tell us that yes, those worlds, those realities, they can be.
0:27.4	And maybe they already are.
0:28.9	And TV helped us accept gay people and lesbians and the queer community before they were widely accepted.
0:34.6	They introduced us to the idea of single mothers, or a typical family structures, or black presidents, and lots of other things,
0:42.9	before those things were widely accepted.
0:45.7	My guest today is showing us a character that is for a lot of us, a thing that we've also never seen before.
0:51.6	Something not yet widely accepted.
0:54.3	Someone who is pansexual.
0:56.7	That guest is Dan Levy.
0:58.6	His show is called Shit's Creek.
1:00.5	It's on Netflix and pop TV here on the US and on the CBC in Canada.
1:06.0	The character Dan plays, David Rose.
1:08.7	David's maybe the first pansexual character I've seen on TV ever.
1:13.9	He is attracted to men and to women and trans people and gender fluid people and non-binary people, all kinds of people.
1:22.8	Dan made the show, Shit's Creek, with his father, Eugene Levy.
1:26.6	You've probably seen Eugene Levy in movies like American Pie, or several Christopher Guest movies, which are all hilarious,
1:33.2	talking about Best in Show, Waiting for Guffman, a mighty wind.
1:37.1	Eugene actually stars on the show with his son, Dan Levy.
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