Last summer, LATimesTVLloyd took a trip to the Rosebud Motel as “Schitt’s Creek” was filming its final scenes. Dan Levy, Eugene Levy, Catherine O’Hara, Annie Murphy and Emily Hampshire had things to say, and it all sounded like “love.”
with Eugene, his father, and continues to run it — play their adolescent adult children, Alexis and David. Emily Hampshire, who plays Stevie, Johnny’s business partner and David’s best friend, is here. Chris Elliott and Jennifer Robertson, who play the Schitts, Roland and Joceyln, are here. Absent are Noah Reid , Dustin Milligan and Sarah Levy, Eugene’s daughter and Dan’s sister, who plays town waitress Twyla.
“This was a project I had to succeed in, getting this idea off the ground, because it was the only time in his life Daniel came and said, ‘Do you want to work on this with me?’”“It’s been a real roller coaster of a week,” says Murphy, taking a moment to talk in a room that smells of “mothballs and rat poison and the great outdoors.” From the outside, one would imagine this to be the motel office, but it’s a kitchenette that opens at the back onto a wide expanse of lawn.
“It’s hard,” Eugene says, of the coming end. “But you can’t go there. You can really slow down the day. You’ve got to redo makeup. Touch up the eyes again.”“This was a project I had to succeed in,” says Eugene, “getting this idea off the ground, because it was the only time in his life Daniel came and said, ‘Do you want to work on this with me?’
“We finished shooting in the office and were moving on to something else and Dan was like, ‘That was the last time we were in that place,’ and I’m like ‘Oh!’ I’m glad he didn’t tell before.” She’s taking the stag painting that hung on that set home with her. “It’s huge. It’s going to fill my entire apartment.”
“This year was sort of very anthemic, empowering, a lot of Queen,” Dan says. “Noah sang Elton John’s ‘Daniel,’ which was a loving tribute, but I’m pretty sure he dies in the song, so … There’s always a show-stopping Noah moment at the karaoke, because he can sing, and the rest of us just scream into mikes. I thought it would be sadder, but I think we’ve all decided that it’s better for our sanity if we choose to be excited rather than melancholic.
“I’ve found myself in the most random of times just completely falling apart. To people who don’t know what’s going in my life I look a little unstable.”“Our show is a bit of a late bloomer and I’m grateful for that,” she says. “Who wants to peak early? [Viewers] are seeing the show that we did for ourselves, as opposed to doing things when you’re aware of an audience. Even after the tour, Daniel said, ‘OK, now I have to go back and write and forget that I saw this, forget I experienced this.
Dan Levy, middle, writer and friend Salvatore Antonio, right, and executive assistant Audrey Sturino are seen on the set of “Schitts Creek” during one of the series’ final filming days, in Orangeville, Canada, on June 25, 2019.
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