Dan Levy's Classmates Thought 'American Pie' Was About Him

Dan Levy's resemblance to his father, comic actor Eugene Levy, is unmistakable. You just need to take one look at those distinctive eyebrows to see it. But as the younger Levy recently explained, being so closely associated with his father has not always been a good thing—especially when Eugene's body of work includes American Pie, the grossout coming-of-age comedy which happened to coincide with Levy's own high school years.

In the 1999 movie, Jason Biggs plays the socially awkward, sexually frustrated Jim Levenstein, who makes a pact with his friends to lose their virginities by prom night. Eugene Levy plays Jim's well-meaning, slightly overbearing dad Noah, whose offers of pornography and sex advice form some of the film's most wince-inducing cringe comedy moments.

"For most of my high-school life, people thought the movie was, like, a biography of my life," Dan Levy told Kelly Clarkson on Friday. "Which is really unfortunate, because I would've killed to have had a life that interesting."

"It's a weird thing to grow up watching your dad just hand out porn to some other kid," he said: "There were no pies," he added, referring to the infamous scene in which Jim inserts his penis into the titular pastry. "I don't even know about the ingredients of an apple pie, but that's a whole other conversation!"

Levy is now best known for his work on Schitt's Creek, the sitcom he co-created with Eugene in which they played father and son Johnny and David Rose. Levy's nuanced writing and performance of the pansexual David garnered considerable critical acclaim, taking his career to the next level and officially removing him from his father's shadow.

He is now starring in the comedy-drama Good Grief on Netflix, his directorial film debut. Levy plays a man struggling to move on with his life after losing his husband (Luke Evans), until a trip to Paris with his best friends (Ruth Negga and Himesh Patel) changes everything.

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