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You could almost see a twinkle in Catherine O\u2019Hara<\/a><\/strong>\u2019s eye when she was handed the Canadian Academy Icon Award<\/strong>. As we would find out after she left the stage for a post-award interview, she genuinely doesn’t see herself the way the rest of us do. When asked how iconic she felt right then, O\u2019Hara paused, shrugged, and made it clear that she thought of her long, laugh-filled journey not as a elite career but as a series of lovely moments stitched together one job at a time.<\/p>\n ‘So I have to ask,’ Sonia Mangat<\/strong> from Canada’s entertainment show eTalk <\/strong>said, leaning in. ‘How iconic do you feel right now?’. O’Hara’s reply was two words, said with a somewhat bewildered and humble smile<\/a>: ‘I’m not.’<\/p>\n ‘What does it mean to you to be recognized with this, this recognition and just be O’Hara continued, putting any self-importance to rest. ‘When I was told I was going to be given this, you know, I’m not going to justify it,’ she said. ‘It’s just, it’s just a lovely gift.’<\/p>\n \n
celebrated? Because you deserve to be celebrated,’ Mangat continued. ‘We all do,’ O’Hara responded. ‘We all deserve to, really we do. I’ve received more than enough encouragement.’<\/p>\n