Cats movie: Taylor Swift attended a cat school to get into her feline character

'This is my calling in life to do this for the ladies'
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Lauren Keary26 April 2019

Taylor Swift’s cat obsession has come so far that she is now actually taking lessons on how to act like a cat. Swift snagged her dream role playing her favorite animal in the film adaptation of the musical Cats, which will be released later this year. Obviously, Swift is not actually a feline despite the fact that she posts more about her pets, Meredith and Olivia, on Instagram than she does about her own music.

“I have cats. I’m obsessed with them,” Swift told Time. “They’re just a real joy to live with. And I love my cats so much that when a role came up in a movie called Cats, I just thought, like, I’ve got to do this. This is my calling in life to do this for the ladies.”

In her attempt to win an Oscar for her role as Bombalurina, in true Taylor Swift fashion, she decided to take cat lessons. Yes, Taylor Swift went to cat school on the set of her new film. And though it is still unclear exactly what “cat school” entails, Swift hit us with her best shot at explaining it. “I went to cat school, which they have on set,” Swift said to Time, and she “learned how to be as much like a cat as [she] possibly could.”

Whether that means she spent her days on set crawling to and from her trailer, licking her paws and hissing at her castmates, Idris Elba and Jennifer Hudson, we will never know. But one can imagine Swift now knows how to use her whiskers to see in the dark, can gracefully scale a wall and land on all fours, has found her favorite piece of expensive furniture for claw-sharpening purposes and will be able to speak in Meredith and Olivia’s native tongue as they spend their nights back at home snuggling together, tails intertwined.

If this isn’t a dream come true for the singer on its own, she also was able to feature “her ladies” in her latest music video for her new single, "Me!" The single Swift has been teasing for weeks was released last night, and it’s every bit the aesthetic she has been posting to her Instagram since February. The track features Brendon Urie from Panic! At the Disco, who Swift fights with in French in the beginning of the video, shaming him for acting poorly in front of their daughters (i.e. Meredith and Olivia, of course).

You can catch Swift’s cat enthusiasm in the "Me!" video out now and see her possibly morph into an actual cat in the Cats film come December.

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