My Lunch With Catherine O’Hara: On Creating Moira Rose and Making Us All Laugh About ‘Schitt’s Creek’

During the pandemic, when the prospect of interviewing people in person was an impossibility, I frequently thought to myself that if I never got to do that again, my interview over a long lunch with Catherine O’Hara and Eugene Levy for a “Schitt’s Creek” cover was the perfect way to go out. I met them on Friday, Feb. 28, 2020 at the Huntley Hotel in Santa Monica, which has a restaurant in its penthouse — within two weeks, the world shut down.

With “Schitt’s Creek” as our stated focus, we discussed how O’Hara had embraced the role of Moira Rose, which Eugene Levy and Dan Levy,…