INTERVIEWING CATHERINE O’Hara is a breathtaking experience. She’s animated one minute, deadpan the next, vocalising ten to the dozen as anecdotes and insights tumble over one another. At one point she apologises for being so garrulous, saying: “I just keep talking, hoping something that makes sense will come out at some point.”
But I wouldn’t have it any other way, as all the iconic characters she’s played—from the literally haunted sculptress in Beetlejuice to Kevin’s desperate-to-get-home mother in Home Alone, via her improvised hilarity in all those Christopher Guest mockumentaries to, of course, the side-splittingly eccentric Moira Rose on Schitt’s Creek—flash before my eyes.
with so much on her CV it’s perhaps no surprise that many people have a hard time
