‘Mama. I Thought We Had Time.’ – Macaulay Culkin Joins Hollywood in Remembering Catherine O’Hara

Hollywood stars and fans alike person travel unneurotic to stock fond memories and moments from crossed Catherine O’Hara’s vocation pursuing her passing earlier today.

The Home Alone and Beetlejuice star’s manager confirmed with Variety that she died successful her Los Angeles location astatine 71 pursuing “a little illness.” It’s quality that’s shocked the movie and TV world, prompting responses from co-workers, assemblage members, friends, and much arsenic they retrieve a drama icon and acting legend.

Catherine O'Hara and Macaulay Culkin. Photo by Amy Sussman/Getty Images.

Macaulay Culkin, who famously played the lad of O’Hara’s Kate McCallister successful 2 Home Alone movies, was 1 of the archetypal to stock a touching tribute. Culkin was conscionable 10 years aged erstwhile the archetypal movie premiered successful 1990.

“Mama,” helium wrote. “I thought we had time.

“I wanted more. I wanted to beryllium successful a seat adjacent to you. I heard you. But I had truthful overmuch much to say. I emotion you.”

He signs off, “I’ll spot you later.”

O’Hara whitethorn beryllium champion known for her portion successful Home Alone, but her vocation arsenic an histrion stretches acold beyond those films. In summation to Beetlejuice and its 2024 sequel, the prima provided her dependable talents for The Nightmare Before Christmas arsenic Sally, portion besides moving connected films passim the 2000s, specified arsenic Best successful Show, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Penelope, Monster House, and The Wool Cap. The mid-2010s saw her thin harder into TV appearances, with shows similar Modern Family and her relation arsenic Moira Rose successful Schitt’s Creek nether her belt. Recent tv projects featuring O’Hara see The Studio and Season 2 of The Last of Us.

“Oh, genius to beryllium adjacent you,” her The Last of Us co-star, Pedro Pascal, wrote today. “Eternally grateful. There is little airy successful my world, this fortunate satellite that had you, volition support you, always. Always.”

Another prima who posted their condolences online was The Studio mastermind Seth Rogen. He shared his archetypal clip gathering O'Hara, recalling that helium told her "she was the funniest idiosyncratic I'd ever had the pleasance of watching connected screen."

"Home Alone was the movie that made maine privation to marque movies," helium added. "Getting to enactment with her was a existent honour. She was hysterical, kind, intuitive, generous… she made maine privation to marque our amusement bully capable to beryllium worthy of her beingness successful it. This is conscionable devastating. We’re each fortunate we got to unrecorded successful a satellite with her successful it."

Beetlejuice pb Michael Keaton, Frozen’s Josh Gad, The Studio’s Ike Barinholtz, Better Call Saul’s Michael McKean, and manager Ron Howard are conscionable a fewer of the different names who person taken to societal media to speech astir O’Hara and her interaction connected their lives. You tin spot conscionable immoderate of these message, arsenic good arsenic posts from fans, below.

“I don’t recognize what I’m seeing. I can’t bring myself to judge she is gone,” Gad said. “Why is the satellite specified a bosom breaking spot close now? I genuinely cannot process however to accidental goodbye to idiosyncratic truthful afloat of beingness who seemed to conscionable beryllium hitting her prime. Goodbye legend."

Gad continued: "Thank you for making america laughter until we hurt… which is wherefore close present we are each hurting truthful damned overmuch knowing we volition ne'er again get those laughs. RIP. My emotion and deepest condolences spell retired to her full family.”

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Catherine O’Hara — Sally’s song
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— Horror🪦Collective (@THEH0RRORKID) January 30, 2026 — Michael Bublé (@MichaelBuble) January 30, 2026

Only 1 Catherine O'Hara, and present none. Heartbreaking.

— Michael McKean (@MJMcKean) January 30, 2026

This is shattering news. What a fantastic person, creator and collaborator. I was fortunate capable to direct, nutrient and enactment successful projects with her and she was simply increasing much superb with each year. My bosom goes retired to Bo & family. #RIPCatherineO’Hara https://t.co/7pWcpYARai

— Ron Howard (@RealRonHoward) January 30, 2026

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