O’Hara appeared in the ensemble cast as Patty Leigh, the outgoing head of Continental Studios, while Cranston’s Griffin Mill took over.

Bryan Cranston misses *The Studio *costar Catherine O’Hara ‘so much’: ‘Just heartbreaking to lose her’

O'Hara appeared in the ensemble cast as Patty Leigh, the outgoing head of Continental Studios, while Cranston's Griffin Mill took over.

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- Bryan Cranston reminisces about performing with Catherine O'Hara in *The Studio*.

- The actors played each other's nemeses in the comedy series created by and starring Seth Rogen.

- "You not only marveled at her comedic chops, but when it’s 'cut,' you say, 'I want to sit next to Catherine,'" Cranston said.

Bryan Cranston is remembering his *The Studio** *costar Catherine O'Hara.

The *Breaking Bad *star spoke about the late actress during a conversation with *Pluribus** *star Rhea Seehorn for *Variety *and CNN's Actors on Actors series. They brought up O'Hara, who died in January following a brief illness at 71.

"Oh, we miss her so much. I played Catherine O’Hara’s husband in three different productions," Cranston began, referring to a guest appearance on *30 Rock** *together, along with the 2024 movie *Argylle*. "And then she was my nemesis in *The Studio*. I miss her so much. She was such a joy to be with."

O'Hara appeared in the ensemble cast as Patty Leigh, the outgoing head of Continental Studios, while Cranston's Griffin Mill took over.

"Catherine O’Hara was a person who, you not only marveled at her comedic chops, but when it’s 'cut,' you say, 'I want to sit next to Catherine.' It was just heartbreaking to lose her," he concluded.

Chase Sui Wonders, Ike Barinholtz, Cranston, Seth Rogen and O'Hara on 'The Studio'.

Cranston previously spoke about doing mushrooms with O'Hara, telling Jimmy Kimmel on his eponymous show about how his *The Studio *character had a scene where he is "wiped out." "I had never had any experience in that,” Cranston said in September. “Not that many drugs at all, as a matter of fact, and so I didn’t know really how to behave," he admitted.

A chance to microdose, in order to accurately depict the drugs effects onscreen, presented itself to him. “If God wasn’t telling me to do microdosing, what was he telling me?!” Cranston quipped of their venue of choice: a Dead & Company show at the Las Vegas Sphere alongside Seth Rogen and Ike Barinholtz.

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He and O'Hara were “clutching each other," debating whether they should try microdosing that night. When they finally did after a little convincing from Barinholtz. Cranston seemed disappointed after taking a small piece of chocolate.

“It felt like maybe I took three sips of wine,” he concluded. “It was nothing! Nothing!”

Cranston on 'The Studio'.

Weeks after her death, O'Hara posthumously won the SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series. *The Studio* creator and star Seth Rogen accepted the award on her behalf.

"I obviously have been reflecting on the time I was fortunate enough to spend with her working with her, and something I've just been marveling at over the past few weeks was really her ability to be generous and kind and gracious while never ever minimizing her own talents, and her own ability to contribute to the work that we were doing," he said during his emotional acceptance speech.

Rogen added: "She really showed that you can be a genius and be kind, and one of those things does not have to come at the expense of the other in any way shape or form."

O'Hara and Rogen on 'The Studio'.

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