Dan Levy

They're like 10 Wayne Gretzky's walking around.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's exactly it.

And people would come up and the attention was just so kind of...

awkward and and so yeah i never really paid attention to it and then i went got i got into the theater program in high school and would never ask my dad for any help and really wanted to do it on my own i just think when you when you grow up under somebody who is so good at what they do a lot of the trial and error of being a child of somebody who is good at what they do is trying to discover whether you are also good at the thing that you're excited about yeah

And if you happen to be excited about the thing that your parent does, it makes it even harder because you're constantly in comparison.

I remember taking a second city class improv class in Toronto in front of a five foot by six foot photo of my dad in costume.

It was a giant like, how are you?

In a thing with the red suit and the thing.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

And I was, and people were like, gosh, you look a lot like Eugene Levy.

And I thought, I can't take these classes anymore.

I can't do this.

Because also failing at improv in front of a photo of your father.

who didn't fail at improv, is worse than never having done it.

It's worse than failing at a thousand things.

So I just... I never really... When I got a job at MTV, I didn't tell them who my dad... I just didn't want anything to do with him because I revered him so much, but also because I wanted to trial and error my own skills without the constant comparison of...

Is it as good as Bobby?

And slowly but surely, I built a name for myself in Canada, very unbeknownst to the audience that I was my father's son.