Missing a crucial audition didn’t stop Catherine O’Hara from becoming a huge star and a fan favourite.
Though she had established herself as one of the stars of Toronto’s iconic improvisational comedy troupe The Second City, and stepped into the limelight-adjacent as an understudy to the legendary Gilda Radner, Catherine O’Hara’s Hollywood story begins in a rental car, in the pre-mobile phone era.
When she finally found her way back to the Warner Bros lot, she was directed to the bungalow that served as Burton’s office, but found the door locked and a note pinned to it. The note said: “I’m sorry. I waited as long as I could.” In that moment, in a town infamous for long commutes and legerdemain directions, O’Hara’s conquest of Hollywood had gone off the rails.
“It really changed my life...I met all the wonderful people, Tim and everybody, Michael Keaton and Winona Ryder, and then Bo, of course.”, which starred Michael Keaton as the charismatic “bio-exorcist” Betelgeuse, became a smash hit. O’Hara followed it with roles in, reuniting O’Hara, now 70, and Keaton, is coming out. The original film also endured in O’Hara’s life: it was where she met her husband, production designer Bo Welch, while working on the film.
In hindsight, in that performance, it’s hard not to see threads of what would become her most memorable career role, Moira Rose, the soap opera star wife of Johnny Rose and mother of their children David and Alexis, in. More so when you realise that Delia’s line was not in the original script, but was added by O’Hara, who came from a background of improvisational theatre.
So, then, to understand the difference between all the women in the room, if Moira and Delia are both women who crave followers, is O’Hara is a woman who doesn’t? “It felt like it’s negative and it doesn’t go anywhere, and what happens to that? Does it grow? Do you grow out of it? And without talking about it, we just both naturally went the way of having a solid relationship. And I think that grounded us as a family.“Eugene and I both take the comedy really seriously,” O’Hara adds. “We like to have it grounded in reality, and sometimes the reality is drama, right? The drama in life.
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