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After meeting as up-and-coming comedians in the early ’70s, Eugene Levy and Catherine O’Hara brought their signature brand of humor to Hollywood and — over the next 40 years — became a beloved on-screen duo. They look back on four decades of friendship, collaboration, and kissing.
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LOS ANGELES — For the last 40 years, Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara have been friends, colleagues, and one of the most beloved comedy duos, thanks in particular to their work in Christopher Guest's improv-heavy films, like 2000's Best in Show and 2003's A Mighty Wind.
But on Feb. 11, their act will transition to television with Schitt's Creek, a new comedy coming to Pop (formerly TV Guide Network) where they play super-duper mega-rich (but also mega-brainless) couple Johnny and Moira Rose. Their entitled children, David and Alexis, are played by Levy's son Daniel, who co-created the series with his father, and Annie Murphy. After the Roses' fortune evaporates thanks to a shady accountant, the family is forced to move to Schitt's Creek, a podunk town Johnny purchased years ago as a gag gift for his son.
BuzzFeed News recently sat down with Levy and O'Hara — after he gallantly escorted her to her chair — on the set of Pop's promo shoot for Schitt's Creek to talk about when they first met, the secret to their decades-spanning collaborations, and to see if they've figured out why audiences love seeing them paired up on-screen. (It might have something to do with the fact that, after working together for 40 years, the actors can — and often do — finish each other's sentences.)
Annie Murphy, Catherine O'Hara, Eugene Levy, and Daniel Levy as Alexis, Moira, Johnny, and David Rose in Schitt's Creek
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Eugene, at what point in the planning process did Catherine's name come up to play Moira?
Catherine O'Hara: Yeah, how many people said no?
Eugene Levy: She was the very first. We had nobody else in mind besides Catherine. The thing was, Could we actually get her to do it?
CO: Because I'm lazy, not because I'm popular.
EL: No! You're very, very, very picky about what you do, you know? You're very selective... And then, in actual fact, you said, "No, I can't do it." Then I had to go and call somebody else, and they said yes, and then I heard from Catherine saying...
CO: No! You called me! You said, "I know you're not sure you want to do this series, but will you do the pilot presentation please?" He knew what he was doing. He knew I'd be in.
EL: Right. And then I said, "Listen, there's no ties at all. Come and do the pilot and even if this thing goes, you're fine. There's no commitment." And she said OK.
Catherine, you haven't done much television over the years. What kept you from committing to a series before?
CO: I have avoided series because you're in the hands of strangers. At least with most of the series I've been offered. Even if you've seen their other work, you never know what it's going to be like. And I'm so spoiled from work that Eugene and I have done together where I could collaborate and I could be heard and have a say in what I was doing and how I was serving the project.
EL: I think you've had a lot of creative input. Usually movies are quite collaborative, particularly comedies. They will listen to what you have to say. Sometimes in the process of a television series... What was the question?
CO: About avoiding a series.
EL: Yeah! So that's why I'm glad we got Catherine. And then, of course when this thing actually happened again, when I found it was going [to series], I had to kind of go back and beg...
CO: No, you didn't! You didn't beg at all.
Let's take a step back. Catherine, what do you remember about the first time you met Eugene?
CO: I was a waitress at Second City ... and Eugene was in the cast, and I auditioned for the cast. At that time, Joe Flaherty, who was directing, said, "I heard you auditioned. Keep up the day job. Keep up the waitressing." But even waitressing at Second City was a cool job. My sister was a waitress there, my brother was a waiter there, and Eugene was in the cast, so I, of course, remember Eugene because I saw him on stage.
EL: I remember the audition, and it was a really good audition, and I think the general feeling was she was just a little young.
CO: Yeah...
EL: A lot of good potential. Anyway. Less than six months later, you were in the cast. You replaced Gilda Radner.
CO: God bless her.
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The showrunners of the Marvel series talk to BuzzFeed News about their grounded, gynecoid superhero.
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In a Hollywood superhero landscape woefully lacking in female-driven stories, Marvel's Agent Carter is an outlier. The eponymous Agent Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell) is a female spy at the center of the narrative who openly battles sexism in every episode of the 1940s-set drama.
But, according to the ABC series' showrunners — Tara Butters and Michele Fazekas — that's pure happenstance. "I definitely think Agent Carter has feminist issues, and I'm happy to put that out there," Butters told BuzzFeed News in a phone interview. "But at the same time, it never drives our storytelling."
That Agent Carter is a woman is never forgotten on the series, though. In the first episode, which aired in January, she cites her gender as a reason that being approached by a stranger at night makes her uncomfortable; and in the episodes that have followed, she uses feminine tools to carry out her missions — a tube of lipstick to drug a man; a bottle of perfume to defuse a bomb. But the showrunners aren't consciously trying to subvert gendered assumptions, even if it is the result.
"That's not making a statement," Fazekas said. "It's just sort of, well, what would a spy have that you want to hide its true purpose? What would a woman have in her purse? She'd have a tube of lipstick."
More than using her gender to her advantage, however, Agent Carter is visibly bolstered by male characters; on the contrary, the efforts of female characters in male superhero projects largely go unnoticed. Of course, Tony Stark can't be Iron Man without the assistance of Pepper Potts, nor can Spider-Man save New York City without Aunt May to cook him dinner, but the labor of those female characters often goes unnoticed in a way that Agent Carter's male helper characters' does not. No one can do it all alone, a fact that Jarvis (James D'Arcy), the solicitous butler, reminds Carter of when he pointedly notes that Captain America relied on her for support.
"Typically, the roles are reversed, and it's Arrow and Felicity, or you have Superman and Lois Lane. The women are the support. And so when you flip that, I think Jarvis does stand out," Butters said.
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