It’s fair to say that we’re going to miss the “schitt” out of
Schitt’s Creek now that it’s over, and while we will continue to campaign steadily for a Patrick and David spinoff (their romance gives us life!), star and creator Dan Levy took the time to have a Zoom chat with James Corden for his first week of
The Late Late Show's (weekdays at 12:37 a.m. ET on CTV) at-home iteration. It may have been a week since Dan, and viewers, said goodbye to David Rose, but the emotions are still pretty raw.James, who revealed he's a big
Schitt's Creek fan and thought the cast stuck the landing with the finale, chatted with Dan about what it felt like to have viewers who wrote the show to express how his portrayal of a queer man without shame was so meaningful to the gay community. Now that everyone has had some time to clean up their mascara-streaked faces (*sniff*), Dan reflected on what the love from viewers meant to him.
“As a gay person, all you try to do is represent your experience and in my case, I hadn’t necessarily seen my experience represented that much on TV,"Dan explained from home
sans pants (because of course). "When you’re given that kind of opportunity, you have to run with it and you have to tell stories and you have to cut through the BS, if you will, because I think that for so long, queer characters on television have been met with either tragedy or they've been the butt of a joke or it's been a cartoon or it's been caricatured. So for me it was about telling a very truthful and thoughtful representation of my life and my friends’ lives.”James then asked Dan about
a video posted after the
moving finale aired in which members of the
Schitt’s Creek cast collapses into a hot mess of tears after receiving a letter signed by over 1,800 mothers of LGBTQ kids, expressing their gratitude for the show. Dan got choked up all over again reflecting on that and his own experience growing up as an "eccentric" gay kid in an unkind world.“It’s overwhelming,” he explained, “because I think back to my own childhood where I didn’t necessarily have those people around and I was feeling likely unsure about where I would go and what I would do. So it’s a full circle moment that was very overwhelming and if I talk too much about it, I’ll get emotional again.”Okay, we’re all feeling "deliciously emo" after that (to use
Dan's phrase), but James just had to take it a step further by reading out a beautiful
tweet Dan’s mom, Deborah Divine, posted the night of the series finale, expressing how she regrets ever worrying during the “uninformed 80s” about how her "son who loved to twirl" would be treated by the world. At which point, Dan had to remove his glasses to wipe away a few stray tears. “What are you trying to do to me?!” he asked Corden.Aw man, right in the feels.[video_embed id='1939181']RELATED: Gwen Stefani gave Blake Shelton a quarantine haircut[/video_embed]He may not have kept it together emotionally, but luckily, Dan managed to keep his quarantine hair perfectly coiffed. James, always one to tell it like it is and filling out a quarantine beard himself, informed Dan he's still looking FIRE. “You look sensational,” he said.“I worked on [the hair] for two and a half hours!” Dan exclaimed. “I had a hair drier out, three different hair products, it was a whole thing! I’m outside tanning, just so I can cover up the bags under my eyes. It’s a process.”You lie like a rug, you naturally handsome devil.Watch
The Late Late Show with James Corden weekdays at 12:37 a.m. ET on CTV.[video_embed id='1939218']BEFORE YOU GO: Even Anna Wintour is wearing sweatpants now[/video_embed]
