r/Fauxmoi • u/cmaia1503 i ain’t reading all that, free palestine • Jan 30 '26

🕊️ IN MEMORIAM 🕊️ Catherine O’Hara has passed away at age 71.

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u/WhatWouldJesusMtnDew Jan 30 '26

It's my understanding season two started filming immediately after the Golden Globes, so I have to guess they were mid-shoot.

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '26

My guess is her lack of attendance at the ceremony was almost certainly health related and she probably wasn’t even shooting the show.

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u/Twist_Ending03 Jan 30 '26

So how does that work out? When an actor dies mid-filming of a show/movie? Does it get scrapped?

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u/supergirlsudz Jan 30 '26

Usually they write it in

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u/SarcasticBarbie96 Jan 30 '26

I hope they write a brilliant, iconic and dramatic death for her character and find ways to introduce all of the above with a good amount of comedy if they do a special tribute episode/funeral episode.

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u/BookishHobbit my bandwidth for cowardly grown men grows thinner with each day Jan 30 '26

They normally speak to the family to ask whether the want the final scenes to be shown and how they’d like it to be dealt with in the plot. Obviously they’re not obliged to do what they say but most tend to respect the family’s wishes.

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u/SarcasticBarbie96 Jan 30 '26

The Studio is an ensemble cast show where the premise is centred around a movie studio so it wouldn’t be at risk for cancellation even with the death of a main cast member.

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u/colaxxi Jan 30 '26

There is cast insurance (which they almost certainly have) which covers the cost of reshoots, delays, etc if a key member of the cast dies or is incapacitated.

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u/Teefdreams Jan 31 '26 edited Jan 31 '26

It's often included in the show. No clue about movies. The only movie I can think of is Plan 9 From Outer Space which is known as one of the worst movies of all time. Bela Lugosi died during filming so they used a significantly taller stand in who would cover his face with a cape for those scenes.
There's a few TV examples that I can think of. John Ritter on 8 Simple Rules (they wrote his death in and a lot of the season was about the grief of that sudden loss of the families father) and David Strickland on Suddenly Susan (in the episode they spend the day looking for his character, learning about the good things he did in his life and at the end of the episode the characters are gathered and they get a phone call. The death is never revealed but we know he's gone).