Seth Rogen says Catherine O'Hara's death will be addressed in The Studio season 2: "We are not ignoring it."
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The actor added that the show will contain "heavy themes."
Co-creator Evan Goldberg said working on The Studio in the wake of O'Hara's death has been "an unbelievable challenge."
The Studioseason 2 will addressCatherine O'Hara's death.
The Emmy-winning Hollywood comedy series starred the lateBeetlejuiceactress as Patty Leigh, a producer and former studio head who mentors protagonist Matt Remick, played bySeth Rogen. The actor and Evan Goldberg — who co-created the show and co-directed every episode — discussed how O'Hara's sudden death will affect the upcoming season.
"It has been an unbelievable challenge," Goldberg said in a new interview with the U.K. outletThe Times."Obviously emotionally, dealing with the loss, but also when it comes to the show itself."
Goldberg saidThe Studio's team fully expected O'Hara to return for season 2. "We wrote it for her to be there," he said. "We had it all set, and the shock waves permeate throughout the entire new season. It's been difficult."
When theTimesreferred to O'Hara as an anchor for the show, Goldberg responded, "You worded it better than we could — she was the anchor, and now the anchor is gone."
Rogen agreed. "If anything," he said, "we're acknowledging the idea that we are a little anchorless. But, honestly, that is a part of life and what we all experience."
ThePineapple Expressstar continued, "And so while we try to not dwell too much on heavy themes in this show, they will be there in this second season. We are not ignoring it."
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Rogen also expressed his admiration for O'Hara. "We just wanted her to think we were funny," he said of working with her onThe Studio.
O'Haradied on Jan. 30at 71. Her primarycause of deathwas listed as a pulmonary embolism, with rectal cancer as an underlying cause.
The actress won the Actor Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series last month for her role on the show. Rogengave an emotional speechaccepting the award on his late costar's behalf.
"I know she would have been honored to receive this award from her fellow performers, who I know she respected so much," he said at the ceremony. "She was such big fans of all of yours."
He continued, "I obviously have been reflecting on the time I was fortunate enough to spend with her working with her, and something I've just been marveling at over the past few weeks was really 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 really showed that you can be a genius and be kind, and one of those things does not have to come at the expense of the other in any way, shape, or form."
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He concluded, "If you have people in your lives who don't know her work — if you have kids in your lives or people that are out of touch or stupid or something — just show them O'Haradancing to Harry BelafonteinBeetlejuice. Show them O'Harahurting her kneeinBest in Showand doing that amazing thing where she hobbles around. And tell the people as they're laughing that that's Catherine O'Hara, and we're lucky that we got to live in a world where she so genuinely got to share her talents with us."
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