Continuing to discuss Lisa O'Hare's shocking "New Amsterdam" exit, David Shulner admitted to TV Line that the process was a grueling one. "And so we did it, and it was horribly painful to do in the room as we broke the episode, it was horrible as we wrote the episode, and it was horrible for everyone shooting the episode," he said. "It really was like a death." As you would expect, fans of the series were every bit as shaken when the fateful Season 2 premiere debuted.
Though she was no doubt bummed to be out of a steady gig, it appears O'Hare took her "New Amsterdam" exit in stride. In fact, she's kept herself busy in the years since, booking work on some of the biggest hits in the streaming realm. That includes a three-episode arc on "The Good Wife" spin-off "The Good Fight," where O'Hare portrayed an insufferable, gate-keeping secretary at the dubious STR Laurie law firm. The actor followed that role by playing seriously sketchy foster parent Clarice Farrell in a pair of Season 1 episodes for the lauded adaptation of Neil Gaiman's DC comics series "The Sandman."
Most recently, O'Hare shared the screen with Jenna Ortega in Tim Burton's smash-hit fantasy series "Wednesday." O'Hare appeared in the show's third episode as Mistress Arlene, Wednesday Adams' role-playing boss at Pilgrim World. One would hardly call it a major role, but O'Hare wholly devotes herself to playing the part of a 17th Century villager — right up until her final scene in which Mistress Arlene hilariously breaks character.
