Dan Levy REVEALS He Was Almost Ken in Barbie

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00:00 Dan Levy reveals he almost starred as Ken in Barbie

00:04 What exactly did I do wrong here in a new interview with People magazine?

00:08 The Schitt's Creek alum opens up about having to turn down the role to be Ken in the iconic

00:15 blockbuster Barbie due to scheduling conflicts saying he quote

00:20 logistically could not make it work despite desperately trying to he adds

00:26 I think Greta has such a wonderfully bizarre and magical aesthetic idea of what that movie was

00:32 I would have loved to play in her world

00:35 I think she's one of the great young auteurs of our time and he's right about the magic because Barbie went on to dominate the

00:42 Box-office bringing in over a billion dollars and most recently winning two Golden Globes best original song in a motion picture

00:50 It's cinematic and box-office achievement and with all of its success turning down the role still quote haunts Dan

00:57 Telling people does it haunt me when I sleep at night?

01:01 Sometimes it's not like it wasn't one of the biggest movies of all time

01:06 That was a tough day. And while Dan didn't get to star in Barbie

01:10 He does have one of the most iconic roles as David Rose in Schitt's Creek

01:15 Which he wrote and starred in he most recently played Mark in his new movie Good Grief and opened up about

01:22 Exploring this new role on the Kelly Clarkson show. I was never like a comic. I wasn't a stand-up

01:28 I didn't I just happened to write a funny show and play a sort of a funny character. You have great comedic timing

01:34 So I disagree with that statement. I just I yeah

01:37 So I think there was a desire after 80 episodes of writing and performing comedy to do something very different. So

01:43 this is a movie about grief and about friendship and

01:46 My character loses his husband and it's really an exploration of that's the amazing Luke Evans. Yeah

01:52 Which yeah, it's like tough to

01:54 It's a tough casting choice

02:00 But yeah, it's a bit it's basically about how how this group of friends

02:04 react in the aftermath of a very meaningful death and

02:09 I just haven't seen a lot of movies where friendship was the center of the conversation

02:14 Yeah, and that was the love story. It didn't require like romance

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