{"id":81383,"date":"2024-03-08T21:09:09","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T21:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/08\/eugene-levy-talks-joining-only-murders-in-the-building-exclusive\/"},"modified":"2024-03-08T21:09:09","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T21:09:09","slug":"eugene-levy-talks-joining-only-murders-in-the-building-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/08\/eugene-levy-talks-joining-only-murders-in-the-building-exclusive\/","title":{"rendered":"Eugene Levy Talks Joining &#8216;Only Murders in the Building&#8217; (Exclusive)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/people\/eugene-levy\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eugene Levy<\/a><span>\u00a0said he was &#8220;shocked&#8221; to receive a star on the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/event\/hollywood-walk-of-fame\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hollywood Walk of Fame<\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;I&#8217;d have to say it was kind of an emotional day for me, hearing some very kind words from people I love,&#8221; the\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/tv\/schitts-creek\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Schitt&#8217;s Creek<\/em><\/a><span> star told ET&#8217;s Denny Directo following the ceremony on Friday. &#8220;I\u00a0was shocked when I heard about it, and it&#8217;s kind of fun being out here and going through this.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The actor and comedian said he never expected an honor like this when he was coming up in the comedy scene, noting that for a long time, his mind was simply on, &#8220;Where&#8217;s my next job?&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>After more than 50 years in the industry and four Emmy Awards, however, those worries are behind him. In fact, Levy has something fun lined up for his next gig &#8212; he&#8217;s joining <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/tv\/only-murders-in-the-building\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Only Murders in the Building<\/em><\/a><span> for its upcoming fourth season, reuniting with fellow comedy icons <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/people\/martin-short\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Martin Short<\/a><span> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/people\/steve-martin\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Martin<\/a><span> on the popular mystery-comedy series.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>While he said he couldn&#8217;t tease much about his character, Levy said that he was excited to join the star-studded cast, which also includes <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/people\/meryl-streep\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Meryl Streep<\/a><span> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/people\/selena-gomez\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Selena Gomez<\/a><span>, as well as <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/kumail-nanjiani-joins-only-murders-in-the-building-season-4-219879\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fellow season 4 newcomers<\/a><span> Eva Longoria, Molly Shannon and Kumail Nanjiani.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;Its great &#8212; Marty and I go back forever and and Steve and I have done a lot of movies together, and I&#8217;m looking forward to it,&#8221; he shared with ET. &#8220;We kind of started shooting already, and it&#8217;s amazing. It&#8217;s an amazing show and boy, the guest roster that they&#8217;ve like pulled in on that thing&#8230;\u00a0 just being a part of that, I&#8217;m feeling pretty good about that.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<figure class=\"shortcode shortcode-image content-in\"><figcaption class=\"content-in\"><span class=\"shortcode-image__credit\">Alberto E. Rodriguez\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span>Levy was <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/eugene-levys-walk-of-fame-ceremony-catherine-ohara-jason-biggs-and-more-co-stars-show-their-support\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">celebrated during his Walk of Fame ceremony<\/a><span> in speeches from his daughter, Sarah Levy &#8212; who also starred on\u00a0<\/span><em><span>Schitt&#8217;s Creek<\/span><\/em><span>\u00a0as the bubbly waitress\u00a0Twyla Sands &#8212; and longtime co-star <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/people\/catherine-o-hara\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Catherine O&#8217;Hara<\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>When the notoriously private comedian took the stage, he got\u00a0choked up as he thanked his family and friends for their support &#8212; giving a special shout out to his wife of nearly 50 years, Deb.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;Here&#8217;s some irony for you: I&#8217;m not the funny guy in my family,&#8221; he said emotionally. &#8220;That medal belongs to my wife, Deb. And yet I&#8217;m getting the star. Go figure.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;But here&#8217;s what I know &#8212; you can&#8217;t have your name put on a star on Hollywood Boulevard without someone having your back,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;And Deb&#8217;s had mine for 47 years, so, there would be no star today without you.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span>RELATED CONTENT:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/eugene-levy-talks-reuniting-with-martin-short-and-steve-martin-on-only-murders-in-the-building\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eugene Levy\u00a0said he was &#8220;shocked&#8221; to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. &#8220;I&#8217;d have to say it was kind of an emotional day for me, hearing some very kind words from people I love,&#8221; the\u00a0Schitt&#8217;s Creek star told ET&#8217;s Denny Directo following the ceremony on Friday. &#8220;I\u00a0was shocked when I heard about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":81384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[174,6889,20,3032,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-81383","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment-tonight","9":"tag-eugene-levy","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-only-murders-in-the-building","12":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}