Seth Rogen Reminds SAG How Lucky They Were to Share Catherine O’Hara
By Fran Hoepfner, a senior news writer who covers pop culture and the internet
Catherine O’Hara received a posthumous Actor Award, and Seth Rogen accepted it on her behalf by begging people watching to keep showing her work to others in their lives. Photo: Apple TV+
There was a bittersweet inevitability to Catherine O’Hara’s posthumous Actor Award win for her role as batty former studio head Patty on The Studio. As with all her roles, O’Hara’s turn on the show was ballsy and strange, both larger-than-life and perfectly pitched. When Lisa Kudrow announced O’Hara’s name during the 2026 SAG-AFTRA ceremony, she did so with a wry smile, and nearly everyone in the auditorium rose to their feet to honor O’Hara as Seth Rogen took the stage to accept the award on her behalf.
It would have felt wrong, maybe, to go all-out sentimental for O’Hara, so Rogen gave his former co-star a loving tribute with just the right amount of edge. “Pretty much every evening before she had a shooting day, she would email me and Evan [Goldberg] an email that was pretty similar. It said, ‘Hello, I hope you’ll consider the following,’ and then there would be a completely rewritten version of the scene she was in,” he said with his trademark Rogen-ian chuckle, adding that “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.” Rogen ended his speech with a plea for people watching to keep showing O’Hara’s work to others in their lives. “Tell the people as they are laughing, ‘That’s Catherine O’Hara, and we are lucky we got to live in a world where she so generously shared her talents with us.’”
