Catherine O’Hara jokingly confronted her own mortality nearly a year before her death.
The moment occurred in March 2025 when “The Studio” actress and co-stars Chase Sui Wonders, Seth Rogen, Kathryn Hahn and Ike Barinholtz were interviewed by the Los Angeles Times.
“As actors, do you feel like you have more of a say at least, if not power?” journalist Matt Brennan asked the group, prompting O’Hara to quip, “I’ve been treated that way lately. Am I dying or something?”
O’Hara’s co-stars erupted into laughter.
Prior to that, in 2024, the “Beetlejuice” star gushed that she was “lucky to be alive” in an interview with Elle Canada.
“I’m lucky [I get] to keep doing things like this at my age — I can’t believe it,” she told the magazine in August 2024.
“Over the past few years, when I’ve gotten scared or nervous, or if I start grousing about something, I’ve tried to really practice turning it around and being grateful.”
“Like, ‘How lucky are you right now to be alive? And then to have this opportunity right here in this moment?’”
She also confessed to being “nervous” about doing the cover shoot for publication, noting, “How crazy is it that at my age, I’m wearing these clothes and I’m lying over this pool?”
Elsewhere in the interview for her role in “The Studio,” she said, “I’m playing a studio head who becomes an independent producer — how beautiful is it that someone my age is doing this? It’s the way it should be.”
TMZ was first to report the death of the beloved “Schitt’s Creek” actress on Friday.
“Prolific multi-award-winning actress, writer, and comedian Catherine O’Hara died today at her home in Los Angeles following a brief illness,” Creative Artists Agency (CAA) confirmed in a statement to Page Six.
The Los Angeles Fire Department also told Page Six on Friday that they responded to a call at O’Hara’s home at 4:48 a.m.
She was transported to a hospital in “serious” condition. A cause of death has yet to be disclosed.
The Golden Globe and Emmy winning actress was beloved for her work on movies including “Home Alone,” “Beetlejuice” and the mockumentaries of Christopher Guest.
In more recent years, she appeared in “Schitt’s Creek” and “The Studio.”
The Canada-born actress leaves behind her husband of 33 years, Bob Welch, and sons Matthew, 31, and Luke, 29.
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