OHMYGOSSIP — Dan Levy admitted ‘Schitt’s Creek’s Emmy Award success felt like an elaborate prank.
The final season of the show scooped nine accolades at this year’s ceremony, with the 37-year-old star making history as the first person to win for writing, directing, acting and producing in the same year, but everyone involved in the programme found their wins to be like a “surreal dream”, particularly because they ceremony was staged virtually.
He told The Guardian newspaper: “The whole situation was surreal. For the Emmys, we were in a tent in Toronto. It really did feel like this kind of surreal dream. You’re watching a screen in a tent and suddenly you’re winning, and then you’re talking to a camera in a tent.
“You don’t see an audience, there’s absolutely no sense of it being an award ceremony. At the end I was talking to Catherine O’Hara, and she was like, “I just feel like someone’s going to pop out of the bushes and say this is an episode of Punk’d.” It really felt like one of those setups, like “let’s put them all in a tent and fake a bunch of Emmys”.
Dan always knew he’d stay working on the programme from beginning to end.
He said: “It was really important for me to stay the course with ‘Schitt’s Creek’. I think a lot of showrunners jump ship after a few years to start something new.
“But ‘Schitt’s Creek’ was my first job, and it was necessary for me to stay, to see the show from beginning to end so that I could say to people: “This is what I can do.” As a result, I spent six years journaling ideas and writing things down that I wanted to explore when the show was finished.
“And now I get to sort of look back into those journals and say, ‘OK, well, what’s of the greatest importance? What’s speaking to me in a way that feels fun, but also culturally relevant?’ ”
And the writer-and-actor is proud of the impact the programme has had on audiences and thinks the feedback he’s had will impact on his work in the future.
He said: “When you work on a show that touches people in the way I think ‘Schitt’s Creek’ has, and particularly the LGBTQIA+ community, it afforded me this wonderful gift of getting to read people’s letters.
“People who have been changed by the show. People who have come out of the closet because they were watching the show, family dynamics changing, conversations in people’s homes changing, relationships between parents and their children changing, all because of a change that the show somehow brought out in people.
“When you understand that television is a really important medium to change those conversations, it becomes necessary to tell stories that mean something. And that doesn’t mean they have to have a heavy-handed message, but just to find stories that continue to normalise experiences that might not be part of the mainstream.
“So, I have a few pots on the stove, if you will. And hopefully I’ll have some more specific answers for you the next time we talk, but it’s been an incredible year.”

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