The cat’s meow: How Taylor Swift’s feline inspired the spy thriller ‘Argylle’

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Taylor Swift knows a thing or two about being catnip.Indeed, the pop superstar worked all of her flirtatious feline wiles as Bombalurina in “Cats,” the much-maligned 2019 movie adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical.But Swift had a different kind of kitty persuasion on “Argylle,” the upcoming spy thriller starring Bryce Dallas Howard, Henry Cavill, Sam Rockwell, John Cena, Samuel L.

Jackson and more.Director Matthew Vaughn (“Kick-Ass,” “X-Men: First Class” and the “Kingsman” films) says that it was the “Anti-Hero” singer who was “responsible” for the scene-stealing Scottish Fold cat featured in the film, which hits theaters Feb.

2.It all started when Vaughn’s two daughters with his supermodel wife, Claudia Schiffer, convinced their mother to buy them a Scottish Fold for Christmas after seeing Swift’s cat in her 2020 “Miss Americana” documentary. “I got home one day, it was Christmas, and I was like, ‘What the f – – k is that noise?’” Vaughn told Rolling Stone. “It was bought without my permission and hidden from me.”Now, the Vaughns’ Scottish Fold, Chip, is getting a close-up in “Argylle” as Alfie — after the original cat cast wasn’t cutting it.“That was not by design; it was literally by default,” said Vaughn. “That first day of filming with the cat we had — this actor cat — wasn’t really working out, and I literally went to my daughter’s bedroom, because the cat sleeps with her, and I said, ‘Look, I’m gonna borrow the cat.’ And she went, ‘Fine.’“I don’t think she realized it meant for three months,” he continued. “It was odd because he rode to work with me every morning, shared my trailer.