Dame Judi Dench said she has not yet watched Cats, and has ignored the withering critical response to the film. The veteran actress, who plays Old Deuteronomy in the big screen adaptation of the stage musical, said she had only seen a still image of herself in the role.
The Tom Hooper-directed feature used “digital fur technology” to transform actors into animals. Dame Judi compared her appearance in the film to a “wonderful show cat” and said she had expected to look like a “really clapped out old, mangy old” animal.
Appearing on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row, she said: “No, I haven’t seen it. I didn’t read anything about the response to it, nor have I seen it, and I’ve only seen a picture of myself. “I once had a cat like that called Carpet – I
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