Awkward sexual encounter inspired scene in Dan Levy’s ‘Good Grief’

It was not a pleasurable experience.

Dan Levy revealed Saturday that one of the scenes in his new Netflix film “Good Grief” was actually inspired by a real-life incident that happened to him several decades ago.

“I think I was 20? And I found an apartment, and I was cleaning the apartment, and I pulled the bed out from the wall and felt something thump behind the bed,” the “Schitt’s Creek” alum said during the “Still Watching Netflix” interview alongside co-star Himesh Patel.

“I didn’t have my cleaning gloves on — I thought it was a bottle of cleaning solution — and I went to reach for it.” Levy, 40, continued.

However, the mysterious object turned out not to be a bottle of cleaning solution, but rather a dildo.

“I felt something phallic in nature kind of slip out of my hands,” he said. “I looked over the bed and it was a perfume bottle that someone had wrapped in a condom to, I suppose, enjoy themselves with… and that was my first real London memory. And I’ve loved it ever since.”

“Such a terrible way of explaining why London is your favorite city in the world,” Patel, 33, laughed.

In 2021, Levy revealed to Metro that, prior to his arrival in 2005, there had been a “mother-daughter situation” that had been operating out of the living space.

“They were running a very successful business,” Levy told the outlet. “I much appreciate their hustle.”

 “I just didn’t want to see the leftovers of what they were running,” he laughed.

Levy’s not-so-sexy discovery was not the only thing that helped shape his comedic-drama.

The film, which follows Marc (Levy) as he deals with the trauma of the sudden death of his husband, Oliver (Luke Evans), was partly based on the loss of his grandmother and his dog during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“I was in a very strange headspace in terms of feeling the weight and the profound sense of tragedy of what the COVID pandemic had done for all of us, while at the same time trying to honor the passing of someone who meant so much to me,” Levy told Entertainment Weekly.

“It was hard for me to feel the specificity of loss when all I was feeling was grief for so long. It was that conversation that really expedited the concept of the movie.”

The film — which is not available to stream on Netflix — underwent several extensive rewrites since it was first announced.

“In the early days when that idea was coming to fruition, it was originally conceived potentially as a romantic comedy, and then whatever press got out set what is now a very strange description of the movie,” Levy stated to the outlet. “I see the movie as a drama or a dramedy.”

After gaining several awards for his iconic show “Schitt’s Creek,” Levy said he wanted to try his hand at something new.

“Having written 80 episodes about an actual family, I felt compelled to tell a story about found family and the importance of it,” he said.