Seth Rogen Recalls How Catherine O’Hara Would Email Him Notes for Changes Before Filming ‘The Studio’

Share on Facebook Share on X Google Preferred Share to Flipboard Show additional share options Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Reddit Share on Tumblr Share on Whats App Send an Email Print the Article Post a Comment Logo text After the 2026 Actor Awards named Catherine O’Hara as best actress in a comedy series for her role in The Studio , show co-creator, Seth Rogen , took to the stage to accept on her behalf. “I was asked to assume the honor of accepting this award on O’Hara’s behalf. I know she would have been honored to receive this award from her fellow performers who I know she respected so much. She was such a big fan of all of yours,” Rogen said to the crowd. Rogen noted that he’s been reflecting on his time working with her, since she died several weeks ago. “Something that I’ve just been marveling at over the last few weeks was really her ability to be generous and kind and gracious while never ever minimizing her own talents and her own ability to contribute to the work that we were doing,” he said. “She knew she could destroy, and she wanted to destroy every day on set.” Related Stories TV Teyana Taylor Vowed She Wouldn't Let Leonardo DiCaprio Drown, Michael J. Fox Gets Enthusiastic Applause in Actor Awards "I Am an Actor" Segment TV Kristen Bell Suggests New Stage Names for Nominees at Actor Awards in Musical Monologue He continued to share a story from their time together. In The Studio, O’Hara portrayed movie executive Patty Leigh. “I haven’t said this to the other actors, because I don’t want them to get ideas, but pretty much every evening before she had a shooting day on our show, she would email me and Evan an email that always was pretty similar. It said, ‘Hello, I hope you’ll consider the following,’ and then there would be a completely rewritten version of the scene,” he said with a laugh. “100 percent of the time, it made not just her character better, but it made the scene better and the entire show better as a whole. And she rea...