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FilmingSchitt’s Creekhad a significant impact onDan Levy’s mental and physical health, according to the actor.
Levy, 38, said in an interview withBritish GQfor the magazine’sGQ Heroesissue that the stress and anxiety he experienced while shooting season 6 of the CBC series caused him to wear a neck brace. The tension in his neck was so bad, he “couldn’t move it.”
“At one point there was an acupuncturist and a chiropractor coming to set every day at lunch to work on my neck so that I could actually perform and not, you know, look like I needed a neck brace,” the star told the outlet.
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Levy wore many hats onSchitt’s Creekas a lead actor, writer and showrunner. He performed a variety of tasks on set, from rehearsing and rewriting scenes and making wardrobe decisions to approving budgets, acting and occasionally directing.
During the show’s six years of filming, Levy said he barely had a social life and was almost always on the go. He would typically get picked up around 5 a.m. and many times was up until the wee hours of the morning.
Levy toldBritish GQthat he sometimes “didn’t sleep more than eight hours” a week.
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“Because the more we built the show, the more proud of it I was. And the more I wanted to create more compelling and dimensional stories, the more we wanted to expand our world…” the actor explained.
Prior to the show’s final season premiere in January 2020,Levy told PEOPLEthat he was “nervous” about what fans would think.
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Levy later told PEOPLE, “I don’t think I’ve ever cried more than shooting the last day of the show.”
source: people.com
