(“My brain is definitely not in gear but the wifi gives me TIME to THINK,” she says, more than a bit Moira-ishly.)
So maybe it can be a lesson in embracing the situation,” O’Hara says, gamely trying to get into PR work mode. “It’s like the show was made for the pandemic: we were a family holed up together, forced to get to know each other, and in the Roses’ case, they ended up loving it. (Levy’s real daughter, Sarah, plays Twyla, who works in the local cafe.) O’Hara and Levy play the parents, narcissistic former soap actor Moira and sensible businessman Jonny, while Daniel plays their son David, all catty asides and inexplicable outfits, and their daughter, former It girl Alexis, is played by Annie Murphy. The premise is a seemingly simple fish-out-of-water story: the Roses, a wealthy family, go bankrupt and are forced to relocate to the middle of nowhere and live in a depressing motel. This sweetness infuses the show, and it is why audiences have cleaved to it over the past miserable year. Photograph: CBC/ITV/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock (In addition, they were all nominated for Golden Globes last week.) O’Hara has known Levy since the early 70s, and Daniel since he was born, and the love between the three of them was palpable, with Daniel hugging himself with delight when O’Hara got her Emmy award.Įugene Levy as Johnny and Catherine O’Hara as Moira Rose in Schitt’s Creek. As well as O’Hara, Levy and his son Daniel, who, along with his father created Schitt’s Creek, starred in it and wrote it, won Emmys, too. Still, sweeping the Emmys was a hoot, she concedes, despite all the masks and social distancing.
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Writing your speech, just in case! That movie was a great reminder not to take it all too seriously.” “Eugene and I, any time awards season – that holiest of seasons – comes up, we always. “Oh, you got my number,” O’Hara cackles from her home in Los Angeles. Did she and Levy quote lines from Home for Purim at each other when they got their nominations?
O’Hara and Levy have worked together for so long that it’s impossible to talk about the Emmys without mentioning something else they both starred in: For Your Consideration, the 2006 film about a bunch of actors desperately jockeying for an Oscar while making the unforgettably titled film Home for Purim. One went to O’Hara, almost 40 years after she won her first, for her writing on SCTV, in which she starred alongside John Candy, Harold Ramis and, most importantly, her Schitt’s Creek co-star Eugene Levy.
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The show came to an end last year after six seasons and it went out with fireworks, setting the record for the most Emmys won by a comedy series in a single season. Now, at 66, she has peaked yet further, with her glorious performance as Moira Rose in Schitt’s Creek, the most endearing sitcom to come along in yonks. O’Hara’s verbal meanderings (“Oh dear, what am I on about?”) are far more fun, swooping among the highlights from her career as a comedy cult star in the 1970s (the Canadian sketch show SCTV), 80s and 90s (Beetlejuice, Home Alone), and then Christopher Guest’s series of brilliant and largely improvised films (Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, A Mighty Wind and For Your Consideration). C atherine O’Hara and I spend most of our time together anxiously apologising to one another, me for my terrible wifi connection, her for what she describes as her “ramblings”.
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