Catherine O’Hara is eager to return to Schitt’s Creek for a movie revival, nearly four years after the beloved series concluded.
The 69-year-old actress expressed her enthusiasm for reuniting with her former co-stars Dan Levy, Eugene Levy, and Annie Murphy. “I would love to,” O’Hara told PEOPLE in this week’s issue. “We did a bit of a tour after we finished the show, and it was so much fun. I’d love to just be with them all again. Doing a movie would be wonderful. Yeah, I hope it happens.”
O’Hara played the eccentric matriarch Moira Rose throughout the show’s six-season run, which ended in 2020. The series followed the Rose family, who are forced to start over in the rural town of Schitt’s Creek after losing their fortune due to their business manager’s fraud.
During her time on the show, O’Hara won both an Emmy and a Golden Globe for her portrayal of Moira. She expressed her gratitude to Dan and Eugene Levy, the show’s creators, for giving her the opportunity to develop the role. “It’s such a gift to work with people with whom you can collaborate. They wrote such great scripts, and it was just so fun and so lovely,” she said. “And really, I hate to say COVID was good for anything, but we really lucked out with Netflix showing the show. Then so many families being holed up, parents and adult children being holed up under the same roof.”
Reflecting on the timing and success of the show, she added, “So many people were going through that. So it turned out that [it was] just the timing … You can’t predict these things. It was the scripts, the idea of working with Eugene and Daniel, and then to have such a lovely experience with all of them.”
Dan Levy, 40, also expressed a similar desire to reunite with his TV family in a 2022 interview with PEOPLE. “My hope is that one day we can all get together,” he said. “I see these people all the time. We’re in constant contact with each other. So the love is there. The desire to work together is there, and the desire to tell more stories is there.”
He emphasized the importance of finding the right story to continue the Schitt’s Creek legacy. “I think it just comes down to making sure that it’s the right story to tell. And I think we’re also proud of the work we did on Schitt’s. And when you end on such a high, it really forces you to think very carefully about what the next step is. Because whatever that is, is an extension of something that most people don’t have, don’t get to see in their life. And I really respect the audience in that thing.”
Dan added that while a reunion is possible, it must honor the show’s loyal fans. “I think when you have an audience that’s paid attention to you for 80 episodes of a television show, the last thing you want is to put something out that makes them think this feels like a cash grab,” he explained. “And that’s not what we’re about. So TBD, but a TBD with an exclamation mark on the end.”
