‘Batman’ star Michael Keaton remembers late best friend Catherine O’Hara

Michael Keaton recalled his decades-long friendship with late Catherine O’Hara.

The Batman actor collaborated with Catherine in 1988 horror-fantasy movie, Beetlejuice, directed by Tim Burton.

Keaton was deeply affected when he heard about the sudden death of the Home Alone actress.

A week after her death, the 74-year-old appeared at Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals 2026 Man of the Year event in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he spoke about Catherine and her road to fame after starring in comedy series, Second City Television (SCTV).

During the event, Michael admitted, “I was a big SCTV fan. I am the biggest SCTV fan. And I’m trying to think, when was it? I think I was doing a movie in Toronto.”

“I remember we must have met or known each other a little bit, because, like myself, she has a big family.”

He revealed that like himself, O’Hara also had seven siblings and somehow, they got to be friends.

While sharing some memorable moments he spent with the 71-year-old actress, Michael added, “I remember a night in Toronto where she had a summer [with her] brothers and sisters, and we were all shooting pool in some bar somewhere”

The Birdman actor was having a hard remembering how long he had known her, but one thing was sure that they both had a healthy friendship for decades.

Keaton, after hearing about the tragic loss, took it to his Instagram to pay a tribute to long-time friend.

He wrote, “We go back before the first Beetlejuice. She’s been my pretend wife, my pretend nemesis and my real life, true friend. This one hurts. Man am I gonna miss her. Thinking about Beau as well.”