‘I LOVED THE WEIRDNESS OF IT’: TAYLOR SWIFT TALKS NEW CATS MOVIE
Source: stuff.co.nz (Extract)
Posted: Dec 4, 2019
Cats opens in New Zealand cinemas on Boxing Day.
Pop star Taylor Swift has told magazine British Vogue that she “loved the weirdness” of the upcoming Cats movie.
The film, which releases in New Zealand on Boxing Day, sees Swift playing Bombalurina in the adaptation of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical.
The film’s come in for a series of probing questions over the levels of its own bizarreness based on the trailer, which launched earlier this year, and which included deep internet speculation over various matters including “Why do the cats have human lips? If the cats have human mouths, how do they clean themselves? Do they take showers or are there cat tongues in there?”
However, Swift has told Vogue that she “had an amazing time with Cats. I think I loved the weirdness of it. I loved how I felt I’d never get another opportunity to be like this in my life.”
Talking about Tom Hooper’s surrealist take on TS Eliot’s quirky poetry volume, Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, Swift said that the camaraderie on set was also something she relished.
“There is one scene that Idris [Elba, who plays Macavity] and I do with Judi [Old Deuteronomy], and someone walked up to me with this kind of gummy candy and I was like, ‘Oh, I’ve never had this before, this must be British candy, this is amazing.’
“I was raving about this candy so much, and Judi must have overheard me, because the next day I got to my dressing room and there was a signed photo from Judi and, like, six bags of it,” Swift told Vogue.
