Eugene Levy's movie son Jason Biggs fills in for his real son at Walk of Fame ceremony

Eugene Levy's movie son Jason Biggs fills in for his real son at Walk of Fame ceremony

"My second son, Jim, is here," Levy said of his "American Pie" costar.

By

Maureen Lee Lenker

Updated on March 8, 2024

Eugene Levy's son and Schitt's Creek collaborator, Dan Levy, wasn't able to attend his father's Hollywood Walk of Fame induction ceremony — but the elder Levy got the next best thing.

At the unveiling Friday, his screen son Jason Biggs, who starred as James "Jim" Levenstein in four American Pie movies opposite Levy, was on hand to help honor him.

"My son Daniel couldn't be here today, sadly," said Levy, 77. "He's shooting a movie in Bulgaria, and tell me that doesn't sound like an episode right out of Schitt's Creek. But my second son, Jim, is here from American Pie, and I love the fact you're here, Jason, honestly."

Eugene Levy and Jason Biggs on the Hollywood walk of Fame.

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It wasn't the first time the lines have been blurred between Levy's real son and his movie son. As Dan recalled to EW in 2019, "Having [American Pie] come out while I was in high school, I got a lot of idiots saying, 'Ooh. Is that a story about your life?' And in my mind I was, 'I would kill to have a life that's interesting enough to turn into a movie. No, thank you. And no, I didn't f--- a pie.'"

At Levy's Walk of Fame ceremony, his daughter (and Dan's sister), actress Sarah Levy, helped introduce him. Looking back on growing up as the child of an actor, she quipped, "When it came to parents' jobs, my dad's job was definitely the coolest. But I was certainly the only one of my friends who, when visiting him at work, would find him getting his hair and makeup done."

Friday also marked a reunion for Levy and Catherine O'Hara, whom he worked with on Schitt's Creek and more projects over the years, including numerous Christopher Guest films.

"We all know and love Eugene Levy for the wealth of original, thought-provoking, heartfelt, and ridiculously hilarious entertainment he has gifted us for so many years," O'Hara said. "Eugene is a gentleman in every sense of the word. Eugene takes his comedy very seriously… He's obviously funny, but he's not afraid to laugh at himself. In fact, most of his self-effacing jokes are aimed at the fact that he doesn't think he's funny at all — which is ridiculous."

Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara.

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Eugene Levy.

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Accepting his star on the Walk of Fame, Levy reflected on his humble beginnings. "If you know me at all, you know just how uncomfortable a day this is for me, knowing you've all uprooted your schedules to be here," he said. "Getting a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame is about as far from Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, as you can get. My hometown Hamilton was a big steel town when I was growing up, and if you did not want to spend your life in the steel mills or working in the scrap metal business or selling suits in one of Hamilton's fine haberdasheries, you had to get an education and become a doctor or a dentist or a lawyer or an engineer or an accountant. But nobody went into the entertainment business; It just didn't happen in Hamilton in the 1960s."

But, Levy continued, "that's when I got hooked on this business, 1961, when I performed for the first time on stage at Central High. It was a production of The Taming of the Shrew, and I played the tailor. It was a small part, I only had one scene, but I remember getting a few laughs in that scene that I'm sure Shakespeare had not intended. But even then the sound of audience laughter had a big appeal for me. So, cutting to the chase here, that's how I spent the next 50-plus years working in comedy. How rewarding was that? A life spent making people laugh."

Levy also thanked his wife, Deborah Divine, saying, "There would be no star here today without you," and paying tribute to her decades of support.

How did Eugene Levy become hot in his 70's? He was a nebbish for so long.

He really did age into handsomeness.

Maybe his son will age into a non-annoying, butch septuagenarian.

I hope this becomes a regular thing for Jason and Eugene - casual meetups captured on Instagram, fishing, boating, sportsball games, and perhaps buddying up for colonoscopy appointments.

It would all come down to, “I’m a better actor and I’m the better son, Dan.”

There are a number of people who grow into their faces later in age.

R5, that would make a funny premise for something, kinda like Curb Your Enthusiasm, which ironically just featured Dan Levy with Tracey Ullman in it this past week.

[quote] There are a number of people who grow into their faces later in age.

R6 Is that a compliment to Eugene or Jason Biggs?

I’ve blasted that movie and its sequels (?) out of my mind.

Did Biggs ever present cock?

r7 That's not really "ironic" more coincidental.

I’m a model now and don’t attend tacky walk of fame ceremonies. Jason can have him.

Shame on Dan.

Wish he was in more stuff these days, I think he's still got it.

Jason, he/him, is cuter anyway.

Biggs can be obnoxious in his own way, but he's not completely intolerable like Dan.

[quote] "Did Biggs ever present cock?"

Yes, R9. In "American Reunion". He also said he told the director to film it so that there could be absolutely no argument that it wasn't him. It's not terrible.

Dan's such an insufferable queen these days.

I bet you my Aunt Fanny's ashcan that NOBODY ever suggested Dan Levy fucked an apple pie as a teenager.

The little prisspot has to insert himself into everything, doesn't he?

Yes he does. Did he do his usual bitchy toned airy whisper acting on Curb? What am I saying, of course he did. He has only one speed.

Jason Biggs falls into the "I thought he was Jewish" camp of celebrities, to me at least. I'm surprised we share an ethnicity.

Love Jason - would rim him deep!

R19 He's the hottest of the American Pie guys in my opinion and aged the best. He always had a very nice body even in the late 90s. I still would fuck him like a pie.

I’ve always found Jason Biggs adorable.

Why do all these celebrities act so humbled and surprised by a star on the walk of fame. Don't they actually have to apply for and purchase it themselves?

He’s thiccc. And can’t make it to the ceremony.

Another Jason fan here but that wife...ugh!

The pic is painful, but it appears he has a quite serviceable dick.

Team Jason.

I'd watch Jason fuck Dan.

I don't Jason is into beastiallity R26

[quote]I don't Jason is into beastiallity [R26]

Double "oh, dear."

Kind of funny they had Jason show up in Dan’s place