Dan Levy Felt &x27;Immediate&x27; Pressure About What He Was &x27;Doing Next&x27; After "Schitt&x27;s Creek "Ended: &x27;God Forbid I Nap!&x27; Brenton BlanchetTue, March 31, 2026 at 8:44 PM UTC 0 Dan Levy attends Max & Helen's on March 30, 2026 ahead of the release of 'Big Mistakes'Credit: Emma McIntyre/Getty Dan Levy is explaining why he "needed to take a minute" to create his next series after Schitt's Creek ended in 2020 Levy, whose new show Big Mistakes arrives in April, recalled the "immediate conversation" about what he'd "do next" "God forbid I nap," he said during a Monday, March 30, ...
Dan Levy Felt 'Immediate' Pressure About What He Was 'Doing Next' After "Schitt's Creek "Ended: 'God Forbid I Nap!'
Brenton BlanchetTue, March 31, 2026 at 8:44 PM UTC
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Dan Levy attends Max & Helen's on March 30, 2026 ahead of the release of 'Big Mistakes'Credit: Emma McIntyre/Getty -
Dan Levy is explaining why he "needed to take a minute" to create his next series after Schitt's Creek ended in 2020
Levy, whose new show Big Mistakes arrives in April, recalled the "immediate conversation" about what he'd "do next"
"God forbid I nap," he said during a Monday, March 30, event to promote his new project, per The Hollywood Reporter
Dan Levy "needed to take a minute" after the ending of Schitt's Creek.
The Big Mistakes star and showrunner, 42, caught up with fellow series co-creator Rachel Sennott during a Monday, March 30, conversation in Los Angeles, when he explained how "a lot of time had to pass" between the hit show's ending and coming up with their new series together.
Schitt's Creek, which also starred Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara, wrapped in 2020 after six seasons.
"When the show ended, there was this immediate conversation of, like, 'What are you doing next?" Levy said at Max & Helen's, per The Hollywood Reporter, calling the question "a horrible way of doing business."
"God forbid I nap," he added. "For me, it was like, I needed to take a minute because I knew what the show meant to me and I knew what it meant to other people. And having a show of your own, you're so proud of what you make, and if you're lucky enough to get, in our case, six seasons of a TV show, you walk away from that really proud of what you've done."
Dan Levy as David Rose in 'Schitt's Creek'Credit: Ken Woroner/PopTV
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Levy added that jumping into "something else" almost "does the new project a disservice."
"Because you're constantly going to be comparing it to the one that came before," he said. "So I needed the dust to settle."
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Speaking with GQ in 2019, Levy said that the last day on set of the hit comedy was "really, really hard" and that he was "very sad" to take off the shoes of his character, David Rose.
In the years since Schitt's Creek wrapped, Levy made his feature directorial debut via the 2024 Netflix drama Good Grief. He now stars in and serves as an EP on Big Mistakes, which arrives on the streamer April 9.
The show follows Nicky (Levy) and Morgan (Taylor Ortega) as "two deeply incapable siblings who are blackmailed into the world of organized crime," per a Netflix synopsis.
"I'm so excited to be bringing this truly chaotic family story to life with Netflix," Levy said in a previous statement. "I'm thrilled with the team we're building both behind the scenes and in front of the camera. Taylor Ortega is going to become a household name, and it's been my life's mission to get to call Laurie Metcalf 'mother.' Looking forward to getting to share this with everyone."
Elsewhere during his conversation with Sennott, the pair discussed how they previously teamed up on 2023's The Idol, per THR.
"We only spent four days together, but I've been madly in love with everything you've ever done and I respect the hell out of you," Levy said. "I remember pitching you the idea and being like … So anyway, I thought like maybe we could collaborate on this, and you were like, 'I'm in.'"
Big Mistakes arrives April 9 on Netflix.
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