Eugene Levy
Eugene Levy
Eugene Levy, CMis a Canadian actor, comedian, producer, director, musician and writer. He is the only actor to have appeared in all eight of the American Pie films, with his role as Noah Levenstein. He often plays nerdy, unconventional figures, with his humour often deriving from his excessive explanations of matters and the way in which he deals with sticky situations. Levy is a regular collaborator of actor-director Christopher Guest, appearing in four of his films, commencing with Waiting for...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth17 December 1946
CountryCanada
And we find people who can improvise in character and create a character that is totally tangible and real and still get laughs, but you're getting laughs totally within the confines of your character.
In the early days, it was like Second City , or National Lampoon , that kind of created Saturday Night Live , and it seems now, for the most part, there are stand-ups who are hired and brought into the show because they have the ability to come up with the one-liner.
I've never shied away from a good fart joke,
You get a good creative release doing these movies with Chris, having the kind of experience of doing a movie with absolutely no interference, ... However it comes out, it's how you want it to come out. But by the same token, those aren't the movies that are necessarily paying the bills.
That was a fun scene for any number of reasons,
Listen, I'm not making a 90-degree turn here. For me, running is action. That's difficult enough. And in this movie, I was running, I was falling, I was jumping on cars, I was crawling across a floor padded up to the hilt. I got banged up a little.
I don't know whether (comics) have the opportunity to be as well-rounded, necessarily,
I am the common man, ... I'm polite, I love my family and I play by the rules. And sometimes I get pushed around. That's my lifestyle, and that's what I try to bring to characters.
I am used to popping in, doing my thing, then getting out very cleanly and hitting the golf course,
No, you don't understand. We want you to sign it now.
tons of movies are shot in Toronto, but Toronto is never Toronto.
It's very easy to sit down and work on a script with Chris, ... We make each other laugh.
It was the end of his speech that they cut to. I said, 'We have to hear what it is that's important to him in his work and in his life,' ... So I got together with my dentist. He gave me some stuff to work with. When he puts a crown or cap or something, he just talks about, 'This is the best cap or crown design. This is it.'
It's improvisation, you're learning to think on your feet, you're learning to write, you're doing a different kind of character in every scene you're doing on the stage,