Dan Levy Says Catherine O'Hara Rewrote Entire SCHITT'S CREEK Scenes - "She Was Just An Irreplaceable Talent... And Person"

Schitt’s Creek is one of my favorite shows of all time. The incredible cast was a once in a lifetime combination of such comedic talent that elevated a smart and hilarious script to an entirely new level.

Fans were holding out hope that we would one day see a reunion in the form of a movie or reboot, but after the heartbreaking loss of the show’s matriarch, Catherine O’Hara, that chapter is officially closed.

O’Hara was known for her memorable roles in Home Alone, SCTV, Beetlejuice, A Mighty Wind, Best In Show, and most recently, the series The Studio. She made everything she was a part of better with her comedic timing and intuition, and Schitt’s Creek co-creator Dan Levy, who played her son in the series, opened up about working with her in a recent interview on Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend (via Variety).

Levy said of his lifelong family friend- working with her on Schitt’s Creek, she didn’t just give notes, she would rewrite entire scenes “from top to tail.”

O’Brien told Levy, “I remembered thinking it was such a nice thing for Catherine to have that role during that last decade of her life, where she was playing someone who was beloved, because people love the character and they’re really getting to see yet another way that she’s really funny. … It was such a nice thing for her that you made happen.”

To which Levy responded: “She made it happen. I just made sure that I was prepared. That’s really what it came down to. Like so much of Moira Rose was Catherine.” He recalled Seth Rogen once telling him that O’Hara would send emails the night before a shoot that said, “Gentlemen, some thoughts about the scenes we’re shooting tomorrow,” and “it would be a full top-to-tail rewrite.”

“And as soon as he said it, it was like: I got those emails. The ‘gentleman’ — it always started with ‘gentlemen, some thoughts’ — and then it was an unbelievable rewrite of the scene. And that is what the amazing, all the great Catherine roles were when she found collaborators that wanted to give her that platform,” Levy said.

Levy continued, “You know, because she had so much to offer, and she was so, the way that she thinks is so on another level that as a writer, you can’t get into her head. So all you can really do is set the table, wait for the email, ‘gentlemen, some thoughts,’ read the scene and say, ‘Fuck yeah.’ You know, and like, just be prepared.”

Levy also revealed that he often stops and watches clips of O’Hara from the show when he sees them online.

“The crazy thing about it is that I’m still like, you know, I go on Instagram and her face is there and Moira’s clips from the show are all over the place,” Levy said.

“And I, every time I see her — even though I wrote the thing — I stop and I watch, and I’m watching not for anything that I did, but I’m watching because she is impossible not to watch.

“And she’s impossible not to love and she’s, it’s impossible not to laugh with her in anything she does. And it’s, it is like an unimaginable loss. She was just an irreplaceable talent and an irreplaceable person.”

It’s so true. She was such a treasure, and we were lucky to have her and the work she gave us.