There's a secret to making it big in Hollywood, we just can't tell you what it is. Not yet. On Saturday, Canadian comedian Eugene Levy will give Toronto acting students a crash course in how to crack the toughest acting market in the world.

Levy's how-to seminar, entitled "Hollywood: How to Get There From Here," aims to show young writers, actors and directors what it'll take to break into the big time.

"Over the years we're getting a lot of calls and questions from people saying, 'Well, my daughter really wants to be an actor, how does she go about it?' " Levy told CTV's Canada AM in an interview.

"You know, there was no real answer."

Part of the solution, Levy thought, was to organize a how-to seminar. He, his wife Deb and her business partner Les Golden from the firm Platform Productions developed the concept.

Immigration attorneys, personal managers, agents, and casting directors will all be on hand to tell youths what they need before they head down to Hollywood to vie for jobs.

But Levy doesn't necessarily see it as teaching Canadian talent how to migrate out of Canada.

"To me, honestly it's not a Canadian-U.S. thing. Acting is acting," Levy says. "So it doesn't matter. You kind of go where the work is."

He uses Los Angeles as an example. Each year, L.A. studios film 200 new television pilots.

"That's a lot of jobs. It's a lot of potential work," Levy says. "This is not about migrating to the states. We're not pulling people out of Canada. That's not what the intent is here. It's just providing people information."

Levy, of course, is one of several high-profile Canadian actors who have managed to make it big south of the border.

The Hamilton-born actor began his career on the acclaimed comedy series SCTV in 1976 and stayed for eight seasons, portraying memorable characters, including Earl Camembert, the hunchbacked assistant to John Candy's Dr. Tongue, Bobby Bittman, Alex Trebel and Stan Schmenge.

After Toronto's Second City troupe, Levy moved to Pasadena, Calif. with John Candy and Joe Flaherty to start a new company. It eventually fizzled out, but Levy's foot was in the door.

It's a move he has no regrets about making after having starred in numerous Hollywood hits such as National Lampoon's Vacation, Splash, Armed and Dangerous, American Pie, and most recently A Mighty Wind, a movie about three 1960s folk acts that reunite for a memorial concert at Carnegie Hall.

"We just finished shooting at the end of June so they've got a few months of editing," Levy says.

One of his biggest Hollywood successes to date, though, has been as the bumbling dad in American Pie, a movie that's been called a cross between Porky's and Fast Times at Ridgemont High.

Levy calls the role a great experience which he'll use Saturday when he passes on words of wisdom to young Canadian actors.

There's also a third American Pie in the works, but Levy is reluctant to spill the beans on its plot prematurely.

"It's another very funny script by Adam Hertz and he just has a knack for writing these kids so great. And so we'll see," Levy says.