Schitt’s Creek star Dan Levy then they broke their silence Catherine O’HaraThe shocking death of him at the age of 71.
“What a gift to have been able to dance in the warm glow of Catherine O’Hara’s brilliance all these years,” Dan, who co-stars and co-created the Emmy-winning series with Dad. Eugene Levywrote via Instagram on Friday, January 30. “Having spent more than fifty years working with my father, Catherine was extended family before she ever played my family. It’s hard to imagine a world without her. I will cherish all the fun memories I was lucky enough to make with her.”
She concluded her tribute, in which she shared photos of the couple together over the years, sending best wishes to O’Hara’s family. “My heart goes out to Bo, Matthew, Luke and all of their big, beautiful family,” she added.
News of O’Hara’s death broke on Friday, January 30. without any immediate cause of death revealed His last public appearance was four months earlier at the Emmys, where his show the study won four awards.
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before the studyO’Hara’s most memorable television role it was like Moira Schitt’s Creek. The sitcom, which premiered in 2015, featured a wealthy family that suddenly ends up broken. After losing their fortune, the Roses move to a town they once bought as a joke. Johnny (Eugene), Moira and their adult children: David (Dan) and Alexis (Annie Murphy) — subsequently have to adapt to a new normal without wealth.
Schitt’s Creeka Canadian production, originally broadcast on CBC and it became a hit during the first three seasons began streaming on Netflix Three more seasons were released, which won Schitt’s Creek 19 Emmy nominations. Following the series finale in 2020, creators Eugenie and Dan have often been asked about a potential revival.
“My hope is that one day we can all get together. I see these people all the time. We’re in constant contact with each other. So the love is there. The desire to work together is there and the desire to tell more stories,” Dan, 42, said. people in 2022. “I think it’s just about making sure it’s the right story to tell. And I think we’re also proud of the work we’ve done at Schitt’s. And when you finish that high, it really forces you to think very carefully about what the next step is.”
Dan continued: “I think when you’ve got an audience that’s been paying attention for 80 episodes of a TV show, the last thing you want is to put something out there that makes them think this feels like a cash grab. And we’re not about that. So to be determined, but with an exclamation mark at the end.”
Meanwhile, O’Hara remained hopeful to reunite with their on-screen co-stars.
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“I’d love to,” he said people in 2024. “We did a little bit of touring after the show ended, and it was a lot of fun. I’d love to be with all of them again. Making a movie would be wonderful. Yeah, I hope it happens.”
the actress shared his gratitude to Dan and Eugene, 79, for “giving me this role or giving me the opportunity to develop the role with them and to collaborate.”
“It’s a gift to work with people you can collaborate with. And they wrote such great scripts, and it was so fun and lovely,” she shared. “And really, I hate to say that COVID was good for anything, but we were very lucky with Netflix showing the show. So many families were hiding then, parents and grown children hiding under the same roof.”
O’Hara concluded, “So many people were going through it. So it turned out (it was) just timing… You can’t predict these things. It was the scripts, the idea of working with Eugene and Daniel, and then having such a lovely experience with all of them.”