Michael Keaton is sharing a few of his fondest recollections of his late Beetlejuice costar Catherine O’Hara one week after the actress died at 71.
“I keep in mind we will need to have met or recognized one another a bit bit as a result of, like myself, she has an enormous household. She’s certainly one of seven, and I’m certainly one of seven. And so one way or the other we received to be mates,” Keaton, 74, recalled whereas attending Harvard College’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals 2026 Man of the Yr occasion in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Friday, February 6, Individuals reported.
“I keep in mind an evening in Toronto the place she had a summer time (along with her) brothers and sisters, and we had been all taking pictures pool in some bar someplace,” the Batman star continued. “However I believe I had recognized her earlier than, form of onerous having a tough time remembering it.”
Keaton — who mentioned “like everybody else” he was a “large fan” of O’Hara, including that he was “the most important SCTV fan,” referring to the Canadian sketch comedy present from which O’Hara received her begin — went on to recall how everybody within the leisure trade “knew how good she was and the way nice she was,” additional referring to O’Hara as a “form of goddess” in comedy.
Actors from Beetlejuice and its 2024 sequel, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, are sharing tributes to late costar Catherine O’Hara after her demise at 71. Us Weekly confirmed on Friday, January 30, that the Emmy winner had died. “Prolific multi-award-winning actress, author and comic Catherine O’Hara died right now at her dwelling in Los Angeles following a short sickness,” (…)
“I used to be doing this tiny little film referred to as Recreation 6which is definitely a extremely good little film,” he continued. “It takes place in Boston, and Griffin (Dunne) and I had been speaking, and so they hadn’t forged it (but). I mentioned, ‘Hey, how (about) Catherine O’Hara as my ex-wife? Yeah, you assume she’d do it?’ So I referred to as her, and she or he got here down.”
He added, “I assume that was after the primary Beetlejuice. However I knew her earlier than that. And to reply your query, I don’t keep in mind what the primary time was once I met her, however we received to be mates along with simply working collectively as effectively.”
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Getty PhotographsInformation broke on January 30 that O’Hara died following a “transient sickness.” TMZ was the primary to report the information.
A Los Angeles Hearth Division spokesperson later confirmed to Us Weekly that paramedics had been referred to as to the Schitt’s Creek star’s Brentwood residence at 4:48 a.m. that morning to render medical help. The late actress was transported to the hospital in “critical situation” earlier than succumbing to the unknown sickness. An official reason behind demise isn’t but recognized.
Keaton was one of many first of O’Hara’s many costars and followers to challenge a public assertion mourning her demise.
“We return earlier than the primary Beetlejuice,” Keaton wrote through Instagram on the time, alongside a photograph of the previous costars. “She’s been my fake spouse, my fake nemesis and my actual life, true good friend. This one hurts. Man am I gonna miss her. Interested by Beau as effectively.”
Beetlejuice director Tim Burton has damaged his silence after actress Catherine O’Hara’s demise at age 71. “Catherine, I like you,” Burton, 67, wrote through Instagram on Friday, January 30. “This image reveals how a lot gentle you gave to all of us.” Burton uploaded a behind-the-scenes set pic from 2024’s Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, the place he posed alongside (…)
O’Hara is survived by her husband, Bo Welchand their two sons, Matthew and Luke.
“I’m proud to say, all of us make one another snicker,” O’Hara advised the Toronto Star in 2007 of life along with her two boys. “In my dwelling, rising up — I realized from my dad and mom. They made one another snicker to the tip, God bless ‘em. How nice is that?”
She added on the time of her sons, “They’re very humorous, and we encourage it. The older one does Warners cartoon bits, actually old school, cheap-a** humorous vaudeville stuff. And the toddler does phrase play.”