Actor and comic Eugene Levy remembers his longtime pal Ivan Reitman as a “born producer” who “went on to actually change the face of comedy in Hollywood.”
“All of us knew he was destined to be an awesome producer and director,” Levy stated in an interview with CTV Information Chief Anchor and Senior Editor Lisa LaFlamme. “He was destined for excellent issues—we knew that in class.”
Levy and Reitman met within the late Sixties at McMaster College in Hamilton, Ont. Reitman would go on to provide or direct comedy classics like Animal Home, Ghostbusters and Kindergarten Cop.
He died Feb. 12 at age 75.
At McMaster, Levy remembers Reitman remodeling their “underground” scholar movie group into “a membership that truly made cash.”
“He would run all evening horror movie festivals on the college,” Levy stated. “We acquired nice crowds and he was in a position to fund applications for budding filmmakers like me.”
Levy says Reitman even gave him his first break within the enterprise—serving espresso on the Toronto set of the 1971 comedy Cunning Girl. For his second film, the 1973 horror comedy Cannibal Ladies, Reitman enlisted Levy as his main man.
“That was my first appearing position on movie, in an expert capability—and once I say skilled capability, I imply you are imagined to be paid for it!” Levy stated. “However nonetheless, that is what Ivan did for me. If he hadn't given me that job as espresso boy in 1970, I do not even know if I might have ended up within the on this enterprise, however I owe loads to Ivan.”
Levy went on to star within the sketch comedy sequence SCTV earlier than showing in and co-writing hit movies like Finest in Present and A Mighty Wind. From 2015 to 2020, he labored alongside his son Dan Levy within the award-winning comedy sequence Schitt’s Creek, which they co-created.
Whereas enhancing the present, Levy recollects bumping into Reitman on the identical studio, the place Reitman was working together with his daughter Catherine Reitman on her comedy sequence Workin’ Mothers.
“We form of talked about, how are you going to imagine that we're right here engaged on our youngsters’ reveals?” Levy stated. “It is unbelievable and but we're each sharing that have. It’s fairly insane!”
Pals for greater than 5 many years, Levy watched as Reitman’s profession catapulted to the peak of Hollywood.
“He was destined for the highest and he made it there,” Levy stated. “He was an incredible, wonderful man.”
Eugene Levy talks to CTV Nationwide Information Chief Anchor and Senior Editor Lisa LaFlamme in an interview on Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2022.
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