Dan Levy has talked about the origins of his sitcom Schitt’s Creek with his father Eugene.
The sixth and final season of the show debuted earlier this year, and Dan recently spoke with Kieran Culkin of Succession for Variety’s “Actors on Actors” section about the show’s beginnings.
Dan, who also plays David Rose in the show, said that he had offered the “grain of a concept” to his actor father one day. “It was really just wanting to satirise and explore the level of wealth that we’ve all become accustomed to [thanks to reality TV],” Dan said.
“My show is about having to reevaluate your family’s objectives and way of life in the event that they lose everything. Thus, one can only hope that they discover love and understand the genuine meaning of love and the fact that it is an elusive emotion.
“How do these people appear when they are devoid of everything? And that developed into the seed that gave rise to the program.”
Kieran continued to tell Dan that Nicholas Braun had been cast as Cousin Greg in Succession, a part that Kieran had originally been considered for.
“It was sent to me to read for the part of Cousin Greg, and I immediately knew who Cousin Greg was, and I went, ‘That’s not me,'” he recalled in reference to the first season screenplay. Even though I couldn’t complete it, I was still interested in reading more.
“And then I thought, ‘Who is this guy?’ as Roman [Roy] entered the room and said, ‘Hey, hey, motherf**kers.’ I instantly fell in love with his voice even though I later discovered that he was kind of awful.”
