Eugene: Even the films you did in film school had a real funny bent to them, like quirky humorous things.
LA Times: What were they about?
Dan: There was a short I wrote about a guardian angel that was sent to Earth to protect a guy that just lived a really boring life, and eventually the guardianship got a bit boring; and he turned a blind eye for one minute, and the guy slips into a coma. They were all sort of dark and weird. But again, I was in the program because I didn’t want to audition for theater.
Dan Levy to the LA Times, April 2016
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/showtracker/la-et-st-schitts-creek-eugene-levy-dan-levy-bonus-interview-20160427-column.html
Photo: Bello Magazine
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Sounds like long ago the seeds were planted for Dan’s new project, “Standby By”, an animated series for Hulu:
“Standing By is a satirical look into the lives of a group of eternally bound, disgruntled guardian angels and the lessons they’ll eventually learn from not only the dysfunctional humans they’re in charge of protecting, but also each other.”
I love how things come full circle.