Martin Scorsese Remembers Catherine O’Hara: ‘A True Artist, and a Wonderful Human Being’

Catherine O’Hara’s death, as announced on January 30, has sent an unexpected shockwave through the creative community — including with Martin Scorsese.

The Oscar-winning director worked with the Emmy-winning comic actress on his 1985 New York-set film “After Hours.” In the iconic film, she had an indelibly memorable role as an ice cream truck driver who ends up tantalizing — and terrorizing emotionally — Griffin Dunne’s character. He played a computer clerk who is spinning out across the downtown of New York amid a screwball nightmare.

“To lose Catherine O’Hara… it feels impossible to me, and to millions of others as well, I’m sure. Many people know her from ‘Schitt’s Creek.’ For many others, it’s the ‘Home Alone’ pictures or ‘Beetlejuice’ or the Christopher Guest comedies,” Scorsese said in a press statement shared with IndieWire. “For me, and for most of my friends, it’s ‘Sctv’: all I have…