Catherine O’Hara Rewrote Entire Scenes for ‘Schitt’s Creek,’ Dan Levy Reveals: ‘She Was Just an Irreplaceable Talent and an Irreplaceable Person’

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Catherine O’Hara didn’t just have notes for the writers of “Schitt’s Creek” — she would rewrite entire scenes “from top to tail,” according to Dan Levy.

O’Hara died on Jan. 30 in her Los Angeles home after a brief illness. She was 71. On Monday’s episode of podcast “Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend,” Levy recalled working with his friend and co-star on the award-winning sitcom

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.”

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