Michael Keaton reflects on decades-long friendship with Catherine O'Hara a week after her shock death
Michael Keaton has shared his memories of his longtime pal Catherine O'Hara - a week after her shock death.
Michael Keaton has reflected on his decades-long friendship with Catherine O'Hara - a week after her shock death.
The 74-year-old actor spoke about the legacy of the late star - who died aged 71 on January 30 - at Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals 2026 Man of the Year event in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Friday (06.02.26).
Michael - who famously worked with Catherine on the 1988 horror-fantasy film, Beetlejuice - started looking back by talking about how she shot to fame after appearing on the sketch comedy series Second City Television in the mid-1970s.
He said: "I was a big SCTV fan. I am the biggest SCTV fan. And I’m trying to think, when was it? I think I was doing a movie in Toronto ... I remember we must have met or known each other a little bit, because, like myself, she has a big family.
"She's one of seven, and I'm one of seven. And so somehow we got to be friends."
"I remember a night in Toronto where she had a summer [with her] brothers and sisters, and we were all shooting pool in some bar somewhere.
"But I think I had known her before, kind of having a hard time remembering it."
