as an actor he gets kinda method-y. lev is definitely a caricature of how he thinks people see him, and how he knows he can be sometimes, so there wasn't a lot of ridic behavior on his part. he's in that indie darling circle of filmmakers and doesn't really audition for roles since acting isn't his main thing anymore. i imagined that noah was introduced to him at a party around the time they'd begun to cast the film and brought him to help with an early table read? then they were like, "well, yeah, let's just cast the guy."