Just How Much Is Catherine O’Hara’s ‘The Studio’ Character Based on Amy Pascal?

Just How Much Is Catherine O’Hara’s ‘The Studio’ Character Based on Amy Pascal?

If you know your way around a Hollywood face sheet, chances are one character in Apple TV+’s “The Studio” might look and sound familiar to you: Catherine O’Hara’s Patty Leigh, where the “Schitt’s Creek” Emmy-winning actress is obviously doing a play on producer Amy Pascal. Especially in terms of Patty’s hairstyle, wanton tresses that feel like an extension of her frittering mind after she’s ousted from the fictional studio Continental Pictures.

Patty is introduced in…