Bryan Cranston remembers Catherine O’Hara as a “lovely human being”.
Bryan Cranston has heaped praise on Catherine O’Hara
The 70-year-old actor had a recurring role as studio head Griffin Mill in The Studio, the Seth Rogen-created TV comedy show, and Bryan has now revealed how the series will honour his former co-star, who died in January, aged 71.
Bryan told People: “In the very first episode of season two, Seth and [co-creator] Evan [Goldberg] wrote some really lovely things about Catherine as they can only do because she was such a wonderful person beyond her talent, beyond her gregariousness and sweetness.
“It’s a type of person that when you hear the word ‘cut,’ you wanted to stay around her anyway because she was just a lovely human being and we all still feel the loss of her.”
Meanwhile, Seth – the co-creator of The Studio – previously admitted to feeling inspired by Catherine during his younger years.
The 44-year-old film star took to social media to pay a heartfelt tribute to the Home Alone actress after she passed away.
Seth wrote on Instagram: “Really don’t know what to say… I told O’Hara when I first met her I thought she was the funniest person I’d ever had the pleasure of watching on screen. Home Alone was the movie that made me want to make movies. Getting to work with her was a true honour. She was hysterical, kind, intuitive, generous… she made me want to make our show good enough to be worthy of her presence in it. This is just devastating. We’re all lucky we got to live in a world with her in it. (sic)”
Elsewhere, Ben Stiller took to X to lavish praise on Catherine, describing the actress as a “true great”.
He wrote on the micro-blogging platform: “Catherine O’Hara. My goodness. Hard to explain the impact she had on comedy. For me, no one better. She was generational. Since SCTV she has been brilliant. Brilliant, brilliant. Funniest ever. Man. We lost a great. A true great. Sending love to Bo Welch and her family. So sad we lost her incredible presence among us. Will always look up to her. Man. (sic)”
