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Six years after Schitt\u2019s Creek <\/em>took its triumphant final bow<\/a>, Dan Levy is celebrating his new series Big Mistakes <\/em>\u2014 a press run that\u2019s been dotted with poignant reflections on the late Catherine O\u2019Hara.<\/p>\n The legendary comedic force, who died in January<\/a>, was more than Levy\u2019s on-screen mom. As he noted in his touching tribute<\/a> to O\u2019Hara, her five decades of collaboration<\/a> with Eugene Levy made her a lifelong member of the family, even before the younger Levy was born. It\u2019s a closeness you can feel in his latest interviews, like with CBS Sunday Morning<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n For the first time since filming wrapped on Schitt\u2019s Creek<\/em>, Levy and CBS journalist Anthony Mason visited Goodwood, Ontario, which served as the stand-in town for the show\u2019s titular community. After sharing that he\u2019d been \u201cthinking about\u201d a Schitt\u2019s Creek <\/em>revival before O\u2019Hara\u2019s passing, Levy began to cry. \u201cIt\u2019s tough … I didn\u2019t think that I\u2019d have quite an emotional reaction,\u201d he shared, noting that being back was prompting recollections of his beloved, on-screen mom. \u201cIt\u2019s what you have to hold on to, is the memories of it all.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAnd an incredible clip reel,\u201d Mason offered, to which Levy agreed: \u201cListen, for someone who was not on the internet, she knew how to meme.\u201d<\/p>\n And during an April 8 appearance<\/a> on Jake Shane\u2019s Therapuss <\/em>podcast, Levy further honored O\u2019Hara\u2019s comedic gifts, remembering the time she made him break while filming the very first episode of Schitt\u2019s Creek<\/em>. As her character, Moira Rose, looked for a missing tennis bracelet, O\u2019Hara found a stray light bulb in the drawer she was searching through. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t a planted prop, it was just something she found. And she pulled out this light bulb and started screaming at the light bulb.\u201d<\/p>\n Levy said that if you rewatch the episode (which I obviously am right now), you can see him \u201cStefon-ing\u201d through that entire scene \u2014 a reference to Bill Hader\u2019s Saturday Night Live <\/em>character, who would cover his mouth with his hands to signal his excitement and hide his real laughter<\/a>. As it turns out, Levy used the same trick to make it through O\u2019Hara\u2019s heights of hilarity.<\/p>\n \u201cI think it\u2019s funny that characters find other characters on TV funny, so I started just leaning in to the fact that if I find this funny, then maybe David found this funny,\u201d Levy said. \u201cAnd maybe the audience gets to have a bit of a, Is it the actor, or is it the character<\/em>?\u201d<\/p>\n