Catherine O’Hara grabbed one of Moira Rose’s signature looks while evacuating her home during the devastating wildfires in Los Angeles.
In an interview to promote her latest gig — starring in Michelob ULTRA’s 2025 Super Bowl spot, “The ULTRA Hustle” alongside Willem Dafoe — O’Hara, 70, recalled bringing some of Moira’s costume items home as keepsakes when Schitt’s Creek wrapped. “When I was evacuated two weeks ago, I took a lot of them with me,” the actress shared, noting that she snagged “Givenchy boots and this great outfit: A short dress with big, round, silver sequins from when I was babysitting [in the ‘Housewarming’ episode during season 5]” from the set.
“I was offered a lot of wigs, but I don’t have a setup to take good care of them, so I only brought [home] the Vivien wig, which was my soap opera character’s wig,” she continued. “That went with me in the evacuation.”
She also dished on what she misses most from her time filming Schitt’s Creek. “It’s just fun to work with people who collaborate and allow you to create an inconsistently crazy character with an inconsistent way of speaking and an amazing wardrobe,” the Home Alone star said, noting the series, which aired from 2015 to 2020, “relaunched opportunities for all of us.”
Schitt’s Creek, which also starred Dan Levy, Eugene Levy and Annie Murphy, featured O’Hara stepping into the stylish shoes of the Rose family matriarch, who quickly became a fashion icon, thanks to her chic wardrobe and incredible wigs.
The character’s evolving hairstyles was something O’Hara had input on. “At the very beginning, I said, ‘I’d like to wear different wigs [in] different scenes,’ and Eugene was like, ‘Um, OK, how would that work?’” O’Hara — who won an Emmy and Golden Globe for the role — recalled. Somehow, “They made it work.”
Though O’Hara’s home was spared from the devastating wildfires, she felt conflicted, knowing so many — including longtime-collaborator Eugene — lost their properties. “It didn’t feel right praying for my home to be saved,” she admitted. “It was just, ‘We’ll see what happens.’ We were really lucky.”
“The least you can do is feel horrible,” she told Us, “and just try to find ways to help others.”
O’Hara hopes to inspire laughter with her new Michelob Ultra commercial, in which she and Dafoe show off their competitive sides while playing pickleball against professional athletes Sabrina Ionescu, Ryan Crouser, Jaume Martinez Vich, Emily Cederquist and Randy Moss.
“I got the script and really laughed reading it — just the very idea made me laugh,” she explained, noting it was also a perk that she’d be teaming up with Dafoe, who she briefly worked with on Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. “He’s a great actor, but he also has a great sense of humor, and was really collaborative and fun.”
“It was as lovely as I hoped it would be,” she added. ”It was a great experience.”
