Dan Levy and Adele.Photo:Charles Sykes/Bravo via Getty; Stefanie Keenan/The Hollywood Reporter via Getty
Charles Sykes/Bravo via Getty; Stefanie Keenan/The Hollywood Reporter via Getty
During an appearance onThe Tonight Show with Jimmy FallonFriday, the actor and director told the story of how he discovered the “Rolling in the Deep” singer when he spent time in the U.K. while she was promoting her 2008 album19.
“I said to my producers, ‘You absolutely have to get this girl on the show. We have to talk to her and she has to preform,’ " Levy, 40, recalled. “And my bosses at the time were like, ‘It’s notSum41, so no.’ "
But theSchitt’s Creekactor wouldn’t accept that answer. “There was a rage in my eye,” he recalled of his reaction to their rejection.
“It was early days, I could have quit,” he said, but he eventually convinced them to let Adele come on the show.
Adele performing in 2008.Jo Hale/Getty
Jo Hale/Getty
Levy told hostJimmy Fallonhe’s never told Adele the story, but when he saw her preform live in Las Vegas once, “She did come over and sort of grabbed my hand and gave me a wink. So, I don’t know, maybe she did remember.”
The day he convinced his bosses to let Adele sing was a good day in Levy’s career, but he recentlytold PEOPLEabout a very bad one — the day he had to reject a role as one of the Kens inGreta Gerwig’s hit movieBarbie.
“Logistically [I] could not make it work despite desperately trying to,” he said. “So, yeah, I guess I was technically unavailable to do that.”
TheHappiest Seasonactor regrets the conflict very, very much.
Levy in 2007.George Pimentel/WireImage
George Pimentel/WireImage
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“Does it haunt me when I sleep at night? Sometimes. It’s not like it isn’t, like, one of the biggest movies of all time. That was a tough, that was a tough day,” he admitted.
He called Gerwig “one of the great, young auteurs of our time” adding, “I would have loved to play in her world.”
source: people.com
