Photo:Jessica Chou
Jessica Chou
Dan Levyknows people still think of him as David Rose sometimes.
Levy is fine with people sometimes mistaking him for David. It’s coming from a good place, he acknowledges: “If you create something that lives with people to the point where they forget who you are, I will never take offense to that.”
Levy, 40, reveals that he almost got to play another, perhaps a little more beloved, iconic role, one which would have lived deep in the consciousness of everyone last summer: one of the Kens in the 2023 blockbusterBarbie. Sadly, he had to turn it down due to scheduling conflicts.
“Logistically could not make it work despite desperately trying to," he explains. “So, yeah, I guess I was I was technically unavailable to to do that.”
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Levy says he is a huge fan ofBarbiedirectorGreta Gerwig.
“I think Greta had such a like wonderfully bizarre and and magical aesthetic idea of of what that movie was,” he says of the Oscar nominee. “I would have loved to play in her world. I think the I think she is one of the great, young auteurs of our time.”
Good Grief.Chris Baker/Netflix
Chris Baker/Netflix
The FOMO was real and lingering, Levy says.
“Does it haunt me when I sleep at night? Sometimes. It’s not like it isn’t like one of the biggest movies of all time. That was a tough, that was a tough day,” he recalls.
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“As someone who’s single a lot, your friends are the loves of your life.” Levy says. “The friends I have are lifers. I love them dearly, to the point where I wrote a movie about that love and how it can save us in the hardest of times.”
Good Griefis now streaming on Netflix.
source: people.com
