Macaulay Culkin remembered Catherine O'Hara as more than the actor who played his mother in the Home Alone films. To him, she was simply "mama." Culkin joined O'Hara's Schitt's Creek co-stars (and on-screen children) Annie Murphy and Dan Levy on stage at Monday night's Emmy Awards for an emotional tribute to the revered comic actor, who died Jan. 30 at age 71, the AP reports. "She wasn't just a wife to Bo (Welch) and mother to Matthew and Luke," Culkin said. "She was my mom. She was our mama, and by extension, she's all of our mama."
Culkin urged viewers to call their mothers and recalled how O'Hara continued to show up for him decades after they starred together in two Home Alone movies. O'Hara played Kate McCallister, the frantic mother of Culkin's Kevin, in the 1990 original and its 1992 sequel, two holiday blockbusters that became perennial television favorites. "This is the best that we can do for her tonight. We're showing up for her," he said. "She may have forgotten me twice, but we will always remember her."
Murphy, who played O'Hara's daughter, Alexis Rose, on Schitt's Creek, remembered her co-star's unmistakable laugh and the joy she brought to audiences. "Catherine's laugh was a perpetual 'yes, and,'" Murphy said. "It challenged anyone who heard it to join in and be as delighted as she was, and she spread that delight everywhere." Levy, who co-created Schitt's Creek and played O'Hara's onscreen son David Rose, said the greatest lesson he learned from her was to "always say yes," particularly to her creative instincts. "Say yes to helping her build a TV character over the age of 60 that wears leather miniskirts and 8-inch heels and speaks in a strange, sometimes unintelligible transatlantic accent," Levy said. "Say yes to her dinner invites and her stories and her wisdom and her generosity. Those are the things you will hold on to the tightest." (Dolly Parton was also honored.)
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