Beetlejuice Star Reveals Why She Dropped Out of SNL After Just One Week

Summary

• Catherine O’Hara’s one-episode stint on Saturday Night Live was due to her loyalty to another show, not because she was scared by someone.
• O’Hara’s roles in popular movies and TV shows have garnered her a huge fan following, making her long-term membership on SNL unnecessary.
• O’Hara will be starring in the upcoming film Argylle and reprising her role as Delia Deetz in the Beetlejuice sequel, which has excited fans.

Catherine O’Hara is soon to reprise her role as Delia Deetz in Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice sequel, the latest in many film roles that the Canadian star has to her name. However, there is one role she played that did not become iconic for any other reason than being a blink-and-you-miss-it moment in O’Hara’s resume. That was as part of the Saturday Night Live cast for just one episode, leaving after her first appearance on the comedy series, the reason for which the actress has cleared up in a recent interview with People.

O’Hara’s roles in movies like Beetlejuice, two Home Alone movies, and, more recently, in the TV show Schitt’s Creek, have brought her a legion of fans, and it is hard to see how she could have done any more by being a long-term member of SNL’s comedy team. However, there had previously been rumors as to why O’Hara’s stint on the show was a one-off appearance, and that is something she was happy to clear up. She explained:

There’s been BS stories about I was supposedly scared by somebody.

The actress continued to say that her swift departure from the SNL stage was actually due to her loyalty to another series, the Canadian sketch show SCTV, and her defection to the U.S. show was simply an offer that came up when she was not working on that series.

“Our producer would get a deal with a network, and we’d have a show for a season or two, and then that deal would go away. There’d be a break, then we’d do the show again. I got asked to be on Saturday Night Live. And of course I said yes. Who doesn’t want to do that? “Yeah, not cool to take a job and leave it. You know what I mean? It all worked out the way it was supposed to.”

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Catherine O’Hara Has Two Big Movies in 2024

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While she has worked in the industry for almost 50 years, 2024 has delivered O’Hara roles in two huge movies.

First up is Argylle, Matthew Vaughn’s action spy comedy, based on the unreleased book of the same name, written by an author that no one knows the identity of. As if that was not enough intrigue, the movie has a stellar cast including Henry Cavill, Bryce Dallas Howard, Sam Rockwell, Bryan Cranston, John Cena, Ariana DeBose, Samuel L. Jackson, Dua Lipa and, of course, O’ Hara. As far as enigmatic movies go, this one has done enough to pique the interest and stand out as one of the first big movie releases of the year.

Argylle releases in the the U.S. on February 2, with an Apple TV+ release to follow.

Later this year, O’Hara will also make a return to one role that she probably never expected to play again – Dalia Deetz in Beetlejuice 2. Tim Burton’s long-awaited sequel to the 1988 fantasy comedy has been lingering on the edge of the lost movie sequel afterlife for some time, but finally pulled itself together last year to reassemble Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder and O’Hara, as well as adding Jenna Ortega and Willem Dafoe to the mix, to bring back the Netherworld’s bio-exorcist for another round of ghostly mischief.

Although there has still been little revealed about the plot of the movie, or how big O’Hara’s role is in the film, fans are hyped to finally get a sequel to one of Burton’s standout early movies.

Beetlejuice 2 gets its theatrical release on September 6, 2024.

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