Here’s Catherine O’Hara as you’ve never seen her before: photographed by drone! The Schitt’s Creek star dishes on her early friendship with Gilda Radner, flubbed auditions, and the curative power of gratitude
O’Hara, a nice Irish Catholic girl from Toronto, is more focused on celebrating life than on selling herself. Inside her house, red Christmas lights wrap around the balcony overlooking the pool—she never took them down because she figured they worked for Valentine’s Day too—and Chinese New Year lanterns sit in planters from a recent party. There are piles of green shamrock decorations on the kitchen counter, which O’Hara has pulled out of the garage in anticipation of St. Patrick’s Day.
The trajectory of O’Hara’s life changed forever when she was a teenager and her older brother started bringing his girlfriend, Gilda Radner, to dinner with the family. When Radner came over, says O’Hara, “my mom would definitely break out the good plates.” Inspired by Radner’s acceptance into the original Toronto cast of the musicalO’Hara auditioned as well. She got a callback but not, ultimately, a place in the show. “That’s okay, it’s fine, still bitter!” she jokes.Photographs by Art Streiber.
More than all that, she remembers Radner treating her like an adored younger sister. “She had me sleep over one night and then in the morning, we sat there at her little kitchen table with a pretty cloth,” says O’Hara. “We had tea and pumpernickel bread with cream cheese and cucumbers. You come from the suburbs—something like that is so cool and chic and exotic.” When O’Hara turned 17, Radner gifted her a book of 17 coupons bearing promises like “I’ll take you shopping” and “I’ll do your hair.
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