Watch Taylor Swift Dance in Cats First Look Behind-the-Scenes Video
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Meow! Taylor Swift makes her main large display screen performing debut and showcases her finest feline strikes in Tom Hooper‘s Cats.
The primary large display screen film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber‘s hit musical hits theaters this vacation season. Swift performs Bombalurina, one of many principal cat characters. The film additionally starsIdris Elba, Insurgent Wilson, Ian McKellen, James Corden, Jason Derulo, Francesca Hayward, Judi Dench and Jennifer Hudson, who performs Grizabella, who sings the hit ballad “Reminiscence,” made well-known by Barbra Streisand.
In a primary take a look at the brand new film, the stars, together with Swift, rehearse and showcase their dance strikes behind the scenes. Swift takes half in group numbers and can be seen dancing with Elba, who performs villain cat Macavity.
“I got here proper off of a stadium tour and went proper into rehearsals,” Swift says within the video. “Individuals coming collectively by all totally different corners of leisure….Everyone’s working actually lengthy hours, rehearsing on daily basis, and it is enjoyable.”
“I simply was like, actually excited and so honored to get to be part of this,” she mentioned.
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Swift, a recognized cat lover, made her formal onscreen performing debut with a position in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation in 2009. She made her movie performing debut a 12 months later with a small half in Valentine’s Day. In 2012, she portrayed a personality within the animated film The Lorax and in 2014, she had a small half in The Giver.
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The pop star has additionally showcased her performing and dance abilities in her quite a few music movies.
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In Cats, a tribe of “Jellicle” cats determine which ones will ascend to the Heaviside layer to be reborn and return to a brand new life. The present debuted in London in 1981 and later turned a success on Broadway as effectively.
“We bought to replace it in ways in which I believe are simply so, so, so nice,” Swift says within the video.
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Not seen within the behind-the-scenes video: The frilly cat make-up and costumes worn by the solid—most of which shall be digitally imposed.
Nonetheless, you may most likely get to see them within the film’s first trailer, which is able to drop on Friday.
Cats the film is about for launch on December 20.