Dan Levy

For some reason I thought you, I never occurred to me that it wouldn't be how a woman was dressing just for the, the level of, um, glamor and accessorization that you're so.

Because to have access to sort of, I love to look back when it comes to menswear, um,

at actors from the fifties and sixties.

I think there was such a amazing kind of timeless quality to the way that men dressed back then.

But I didn't have that access as a kid.

All I had was what I was looking at and menswear was quite boring if you didn't know where to look.

So I just, I looked at the women

I used to draw gowns.

Oh, really?

Yeah.

And I, like, the jig is up.

When it came to my parents, I think they knew from a very early age that I may have been a homosexual.

You wore all these outlandish outfits in Schitt's Creek, your character.

And how did you know that dressing high fashion would make the repressed nature of your character be so clear?

It's like contraintuitive, but I love...

Costume.

I love what costume can do.

As a writer, I love the power of costume design because it allows for characters to say things that you don't have to write.

Yeah.

And there is nothing worse than expositional dialogue.