Dan Levy revealed that he considered a sequel to Schitt’s Creek before costar Catherine O’Hara’s tragic death in January.
During a Sunday, April 5, interview on CBS Sunday Morning, broadcast journalist Anthony Mason quizzed Dan, 42, whether there was a “chance there’ll ever be a sequel” to the hit CBC comedy, which aired from 2015 to 2020.
“No, not now. No,” an emotional Dan replied. “You can’t.”
Mason then asked Dan if he’d thought about it before news broke of O’Hara’s death. “Yeah, I was thinking about it,” he responded.
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Dan cocreated and starred in Schitt’s Creek with his father, Eugene Levy. The Emmy-winning sitcom followed the wealthy Rose family, who suddenly found themselves living in a rural town after losing all their money. O’Hara and Eugene played the roles of parents Moira and Johnny Rose. Dan played the couple’s son, David, and Annie Murphy played spoiled daughter Alexis.
For Sunday’s interview, Dan and Mason returned to Goodwood, Ontario, Canada, where the series was shot and revisited the store that stood in for David’s shop, Rose Apothecary.
An emotional Dan wiped away tears as he told Mason, “It’s tough. It’s tough to be back. I didn’t think I’d have quite an emotional reaction.”
Being back in Goodwood resurfaced “a lot of memories with Catherine,” he explained. “It’s what you have to hold on to, the memories.”
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O’Hara died at age 71 in Los Angeles on January 30 “following a brief illness,” her talent agency, the Creative Artists Agency, said in a statement to Us Weekly at the time.
In February, TMZ reported that the Home Alone actress’ primary cause of death was a pulmonary embolism, citing a report from the L.A. County Department of Public Health. The report listed rectal cancer as an underlying cause of death, per TMZ.
Dan previously remembered his onscreen mom in a touching tribute shared via Instagram in January.
“What a gift to have gotten to dance in the warm glow of Catherine O’Hara’s brilliance for all those years,” he wrote at the time. “Having spent over fifty years collaborating with my Dad, Catherine was extended family before she ever played my family. It’s hard to imagine a world without her in it. I will cherish every funny memory I was fortunate enough to make with her.”
“Words seem inadequate to express the loss I feel today. I had the honor of knowing and working with the great Catherine O’Hara for over fifty years,” Dan’s father, Eugene, 79, said in a statement to Us in January. “From our beginnings on the Second City stage, to SCTV, to the movies we did with Chris Guest, to our six glorious years on Schitt’s Creek, I cherished our working relationship, but most of all our friendship.”
