

You’d have to ask her, but I am willing and able to do that at any time. Years ago you were in a music video with Kelly Clarkson for about a half second. For the longest time couples of all different shapes and sizes were taking pictures of themselves kissing in front of it. We’ve seen it all the time with rom-coms and straight couples, and yet I’ve never seen it with a gay couple, and I didn’t know when I’d have another opportunity to put a billboard out in the world that shows two men kissing. There was a big billboard on Sunset Boulevard a few months back of you and Patrick (David’s fiancé on the show, played by Noah Reid) kissing. Thank you for alleviating some of the weekly anxiety that I have.” Once the government shifted, the responses we were getting from viewers wasn’t just, “Hey, fun show.” It was like, “Thank you for making me laugh in some dark times. Yeah, we saw a rise in viewership a few years back when someone came into power and people were looking to television shows for a soft place to land for 20 minutes a week. It seems like a particularly welcome message right about now. So what does love look like, what do conflicts look like, when all you have is each other? Well, I’m happy to have pleasantly surprised you! The whole premise of the show is about how a family that used money to fix their problems and to represent love and to bandage any conflict is put in a situation where they don’t have that luxury. But, of course, that wasn’t what the show is at all. I didn’t think I’d like a show about a bunch of rich assholes. I have to admit, I resisted watching your show even after everyone was raving about it. So I made a very quick decision to implement a schedule and stick to it. I was sort of wandering through my house reading the news, and then suddenly it was 8 p.m. I feel like regimented days are really important now. But I’m also trying to stay focused on some work that I have to do. Up next is the latest season of Homeland, and I’m taking up cooking for the first time. I just finished the latest season of Elite, which is a Spanish teen soap opera that I love very much. What are you doing to keep yourself occupied?

I feel like I’ve got all sartorial bases covered with those three. If you weren’t on lockdown, who are the three people, living or dead, whom you’d want to go clothes shopping with?

For the first time his dad is home for a decent period of time, so there’s a silver lining for him at least. I am self-quarantining with my canine companion, Redmond. I’ve officially stopped dressing for anybody, let alone myself. Just so we can set the scene: Where are you, and what are you wearing? I wish we could do this in person, but we’ve all been told to stay in. On a recent morning Levy talked with Los Angeles about the show, his prefame days in a Kelly Clarkson video, and what it means to make comedy when times are dark. It’s a perfect binge for our current housebound moment.
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The series, which airs its finale on Pop TV tonight and is streaming on Netflix, not only is hilarious, it also presents a vision of what the world might look like if folks were just a bit nicer to each other. In addition to playing David Rose, the show’s spoiled, openly pansexual clotheshorse, the 36-year-old Levy was also a cocreator and the showrunner. For six seasons, Dan Levy starred on Schitt’s Creek as the once-rich son of a once-rich dad (played by his real-life dad, Eugene) who finds himself, along with the rest of his family, broke and living in a seedy roadside motel.
