Catherine O’Hara.Photo:Robin L Marshall/WireImage
Robin L Marshall/WireImage
ForCatherine O’Hara, loyalty trumps a spot onSaturday Night Live.
“Our producer would get a deal with a network, and we’d have a show for a season or two, and then that deal would go away. There’d be a break, then we’d do the show again,” she explains.
During one break, “I got asked to be onSaturday Night Live. And of course I said yes. Who doesn’t want to do that?”
Catherine O’Hara’s ‘Saturday Night Live’ headshot.NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty
NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty
“Yeah, not cool to take a job and leave it. You know what I mean?” she says.
In the end, O’Hara’s best friend from high school, Robin Duke, took herSNLslot. “It all worked out the way it was supposed to,” says O’Hara.
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They also costarred together on the 2015-2020 Pop comedy seriesSchitt’s Creek, playing Johnny and Moira Rose, a wealthy couple who lose everything and are forced to reside in the run-down motel of the small town they own, their only asset.
Levy co-created the Emmy-winning series with his son,Daniel Levy, who played the Roses’ high-maintenance son David.
“I’ll be forever grateful to Eugene and Daniel for giving me that opportunity to develop the role with them and to collaborate,” says O’Hara.
“It’s such a gift to work with people with whom you can collaborate. And they wrote such great scripts, and it was just so fun and so lovely,” she adds.
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Though it originally aired on the network Pop,Netflixeventually streamed the show, which O’Hara credits with helping the show become a beloved hit.
“We really lucked out,” she says.
source: people.com
