SchittsCreek star Daniel Levy reflects on making the groundbreaking comedy series
When we were in the early days of just breaking character, I had come up with the idea of “A Little Bit Alexis” being the reality show that Alexis had been on. The fact that we were finally able to bring that out was a really great thing. And then Annie, of course, wrote this song and let it live in a whole other world.
You basically decided that the town of Schitt’s Creek was this utopia. Is there something about telling peopleI feel like as humans, we’re creatures of habit. If we just see things, we adjust accordingly. I knew there was a risk in terms of not showing the negative side.
Yes. I was playing a character that was very uninhibited in terms of who he was and what he wanted, and I really wanted to play with people’s expectations. At first there was a lot of questions about, “Is he gay? He has to be gay.” And then to have him hook up with Stevie really felt like it represented what I wanted to explore on this show, which is, “
hat has allowed people, including myself, to realize like, yeah, you don’t have to change yourself. You don’t have to give yourself away to people that don’t deserve you. I just want to keep doing that. I want to keep telling stories that mean something to me, and that are potentially joyful. My list of ideas that I’ve been scratching down over the past six years while I’ve been doing this show is anything from thrillers to dramas, to other comedies to musicals.
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