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Dan Levy on Turning Down Role of Ken in Barbie: 'That Was a Bad, Bad Day'

Dane Levy — whose new movie 'Good Grief' is on Netflix now — barely missed out on a chance to be in 'Barbie.' "Does that haunt me at night?" Levy asks. "Sometimes."

His character in Schitt's Creek — the 2015-2020 show about a formerly rich family exiled to a small, rural town co-created by Levy and his dad, Eugene — was a pandemic juggernaut that swept the Emmys in 2020. 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 blockbuster Barbie.

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