Dan Levy Talks Movies, Dating, and Why He Gets His Tarot Cards Read ‘Every Six Months’ (Exclusive) 

Dan Levy just drew a Wheel of Fortune card. Canadian actor — best known as David Rose in the popular 2015–2020 sitcom Schitt’s Creek — recently made his directorial debut with a Netflix drama Good grief. He is now being read tarot cards in West Hollywood.

“I’m not worried about the future,” says Levy, 40. “I’m worried about present.” Luckily, one of his closest friends, Trevor Ballin, is a tarot reader. (“Dan’s actually kind of clairvoyant,” Ballin says later when Levy is out of earshot.)

“I get my charts read every six months,” says Levy. “It’s a recalibration of where I’m headed.”

Where he’s headed, Ballin says, is worse – and a little worse, according to love. “There’s a huge opportunity right now,” Ballin tells him. “Enjoy this moment. And rest.”

He draws another card: “This is the year you will meet someone.”

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But first, Levy may need to take a moment to breathe. “I think I’m just pre-programmed to work. And I’m just now freeing up some space to hopefully meet someone,” he says, lifting his thick black bodies. “The cards scream to me: ‘You’re going to win big! Accept all dates!’ He pauses with a laugh. “In short, me as the next bachelor.”

Just over 15 years ago, Levy made his debut as a host on Canada’s MTV. Then he was a fashionable guy with cool glasses known as the son of Eugene Levy, the father of the American Pie.

People started asking where he got his frames. “I kind of felt guilty telling you like a twelve-year-old to go and spend hundreds of dollars on, you know, some Tom Ford frames.” That’s how he founded DL Eyewear. He wants to clarify his beginnings. “It’s not a celebrity brand because it was founded before I became famous.”

The company now offers dozens of frames — sunglasses for $150, optical frames for $140 — and fans still ask where it gets theirs. They also ask where he gets his clothes. But they will never bear his initials on the label.

“I would never be in the clothing business,” he says. “Because I don’t know, I don’t know about design. I don’t know about designing clothes, I like wearing clothes, of course.” He knows that he would be the hundredth celebrity to start fashion design. “But I don’t know if having good style means you should take a job from someone who went to school for it.”

She came in 2015 Schitt’s Creek, a show about a formerly rich family exiled to a small, rural town. Co-created by Levy and his father and starring Eugene, 77, his sister Sarah Levy, 37, and Catherine O’Hara, 69, it was a pandemonium that swept the 2020 Emmys and launched Levy as a true style icon. and meme star.

The gif of his TV sister saying, “Fuck, David,” is still in heavy rotation on the iPhone. “People would even scream from passing cars, through the windows, at me, ‘Ow!'” he says with a laugh. “If you create something that lives with people to the point where they forget who you are, I will never be offended by that.”

Asked about the possibility of a Schitt’s Creek movie, Levy says, “One hundred percent…I don’t know.”

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Levy reveals that he almost landed another role that would live deep in everyone’s mind last summer: one of Ken in the 2023 blockbuster. Barbie. He had to turn it down due to a scheduling conflict.

“It was a tough, tough day,” says Levy. “It’s not like it’s not one of the greatest movies of all time. Does it haunt me when I sleep at night? Sometimes.”

But with Good griefLevy moves on Schitt’s Creeks‘theatre of the absurd and deep into the shadows of the bereaved. In the film, which he wrote, directed and stars in, Levy plays an artist who overcomes the death of her husband, played by Luke Evans, by traveling to Paris with her two best friends.

Daniel Levy follows the loss of a partner in the emotional first trailer for Good grief

Of the casting of Evans, whom he’s never met, Levy says, “His character has so little time physically in the movie. And yet he lives in almost every scene of the movie. So it took someone larger than life, someone like Luke, who could hold that space in the first 15 minutes of the film.” He pauses. “We needed Gaston,” he says with a laugh, referring to Evans’ turn in the live-action remake Beauty and the Beast. But, in fact, the film is a love story about friendship, says Levy.

“As someone who is often single, your friends are the loves of your life.” says Levy. “The friends I have are for life. I love them very much, to the extent that I wrote a film about that love and how it can save us in the most difficult times. I wanted romance to be put aside for once.”

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Dealing with his own grief after the death of his grandmother, Patricia Divine in 2020, was a steep learning curve that Levy relied on when writing the script. “I was asking a lot of questions: was I doing it right or did I feel enough or did I respect the loss, the people,” he recalls. “And then my dog ​​died.”

The double defeat coincided with his 40th birthday.

“I believed that I had to have my own life by the time I was 40,” he explains. “And, as I explore in the film, that’s just an unrealistic expectation. We can talk about it, we can write about it, we can think about it, but no one ever lives together. And now I believe you would be an incredibly boring person if you lived together.” He pauses. “Time goes on. Or not, according to Mariah Carey. And she is one of the greatest philosophers of our time.”

So his cards say rest. “My brain is never still, but the tarot cards tell me to stop. I don’t know why I struggle so much. But the cards say I have to say “yes” now?”

Ballin offers encouragement. “It’s time to celebrate. You will meet someone who will inspire you,” he says.

Now Levy is all for it. “Well, then the answer is yes!”

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