Current Events > Taylor Swift Has No Regrets About Cats. Calls it a Weird-Ass Movie

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No bad movie captured the imagination last year like Cats, director Tom Hoopers fiasco of digital fur technology and at least one digitally removed bulge (among other mysteries). But while the film may be one of the most widely discussed flops in recent memory, at least one of its many famous cast members has no regrets about her appearance: Taylor Swift.

I had a really great time working on that weird-ass movie, Swift, who affected a British accent to play Bombalurina in the film, told Variety in a new interview. Im not gonna retroactively decide that it wasnt the best experience. I never would have met Andrew Lloyd Webber or gotten to see how he works, and now hes my buddy. I got to work with the sickest dancers and performers. No complaints.
While this might sound like hindsight and rationalization, her comments are in keeping with what Swift has said about the film before. Speaking to Variety late last year, Swift said that after auditioning to play ponine in Hoopers adaptation of Les Misrablesand losing the role to Samantha Barksshe added working with the Kings Speech filmmaker to her dream board. When he called for Cats, she immediately said yes.

You have to dislocate the end result with your experience, and you have to commit to doing it only based on what you think the experience will be, and if the experience will teach you things that enrich your life, Swift said at the time. So thats exactly what I thought this would be.

Sounds like it was more fun being in Cats than watching it.

https://giant.gfycat.com/NimbleIdioticCirriped.mp4

This almost seems like a fetish.