Simu Liu, Ryan Gosling and Michael Cera weren't the only Canadians asked to star in the Barbie movie – it turns out Dan Levy was also offered a role.
The 40-year-old actor and filmmaker, best known for his role as David Rose in the CBC-produced series Schitt's Creek, told People that he was offered a role in Barbie, the 2023 box office hit, which grossed over $1.38 billion worldwide.
Unfortunately, despite the opportunity to appear in the Margot Robbie-directed and Greta Gerwig-directed and co-written film, Levy revealed that he had to turn down the role.
His reason: scheduling conflict.
“Logistically, despite desperate attempts, it was not possible to make it work,” he said. “So, yeah, I guess I wasn't technically able to do that.”
And the FOMO is real, according to Levy.
“Does it haunt me when I sleep at night? “Sometimes,” he admitted. “It's not that it's not one of the greatest films of all time. It was a hard, hard day.”
He added that he was a big fan of Gerwig, explaining: “I think Greta had a wonderfully bizarre and magical aesthetic vision of what this film was. I would have liked to play in their world. I think she is one of the great, young authors of our time.”
The Emmy Award-winning actor stars in the Netflix film Good Grief, which he also wrote and directed. Levy plays an illustrator dealing with the death of his husband.
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