Good Grief's Dan Levy has recalled a real-life experience that inspired part of his new Netflix drama.
In one sequence in the film, the star's grieving character is seen chatting to his friends Sophie and Thomas about the time he relocated and discovered a previous tenant's sex toy in his bed.
During an interview with Netflix, Levy revealed that something similar actually happened to him before.
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"I think I was 20? And I found an apartment, and I was cleaning the apartment, and I pulled the bed out from the wall and felt something thump behind the bed," the Schitt's Creek actor said.
"I didn't have my cleaning gloves on — I thought it was a bottle of cleaning solution — and I went to reach for it. I felt something phallic in nature kind of slip out of my hands.
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"I looked over the bed and it was a perfume bottle that someone had wrapped in a condom to, I suppose, enjoy themselves with... and that was my first real London memory. And I've loved it ever since."
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The movie currently sits at a decent 77% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
Last month, Levy – who also wrote, directed, and produced – discussed the misconceptions surrounding the genre of his film.
"I see the movie as a drama or a dramedy," Levy clarified to Entertainment Weekly.
"I lost my grandmother toward the tail end of the pandemic, and I was in a very strange headspace in terms of feeling the weight and the profound sense of tragedy of what the COVID pandemic had done for all of us, while at the same time trying to honour the passing of someone who meant so much to me.
"It was hard for me to feel the specificity of loss when all I was feeling was grief for so long. It was that conversation that really expedited the concept of the movie."
Good Grief is streaming on Netflix.
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Dan is a freelance entertainment journalist. Beginning his writing career in 2014, Dan's work first graced the pages of cult publications Starburst magazine and Little White Lies before moving onto Total Film, Digital Spy, NME and Yahoo Entertainment.
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