Catherine Ohara — catherine ohara: Seth Rogen Accepts Her Actor Award
Seth Rogen, 43, accepted the Actor Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series on behalf of catherine ohara on Sunday, calling it a "very sad honor. " Rogen, a co-creator of the series, delivered a moving speech as the SAG-AFTRA crowd rose to its feet and applauded.
Catherine Ohara Acceptance Moment
Rogen accepted the award for the late star of the satirical comedy series The Studio, who played the character Patty Leigh. He described the moment as a "very sad honor" and read his remarks with a solemn expression while fellow attendees cheered.
Rogen’s Moving Onstage Speech
Rogen said, "I know she would have been honored to receive this award from her fellow performers, whom I know she respected so much. She was such a big fan of all of yours, " as the camera panned to a teary-eyed Kathryn Hahn. He added that he had been reflecting on his time working with her and marveled at 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. She knew she could destroy, and she wanted to destroy every day on set. "
On-set Emails and Rewrites
Rogen said he hadn't told the other actors because he "didn't want them to get ideas, " but that nearly every evening before a shooting day she would email him and co-creator/EP Evan Goldberg with a message that began, "Hello, I hope you'll consider the following. " Those emails contained a completely rewritten version of the scene she was in, and, Rogen said, "literally, 100% of the time, it made not just her character better, but it made the scene better and the entire show better as a whole. "
Audience Reaction and Tears
The awards ceremony, which was streamed, also cut to Jenna Ortega among the attendees; Ortega, the Wednesday star who was nominated against O'Hara in the category and who co-starred with her in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, could be seen wiping tears away. The SAG-AFTRA audience's standing ovation punctuated the tribute as Rogen spoke.
O'Hara's Death and Legacy
Rogen concluded his tribute urging people to introduce others to her work: "show them O'Hara dancing to Harry Belafonte and Beetlejuice, show them O'Hara hurting her knee in Best in Show and doing that amazing thing where she hobbles around, and tell the people, as they are laughing, that that's Catherine O'Hara, and we were lucky that we got to live in a world where she so generously shared her talents with us. "
