Judi Dench graciously claims there to be "no villains in the making of Cats" - A.V. Club
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We live in a completely different world than that of December 2019, and not just because of political, medical, and climate crises. That month brought Tom Hooper’s adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical Cats, and many have never recovered. Count Dame Judi Dench among them, who writes in her upcoming memoir, Is It Too Late To Make A Run For It?, “Oh God, I can’t bear it.” This is per The Guardian, which reports that Dench calls the universally-panned film “a waste of all that goodwill and talent.”
Dench has spoken about the film before, and still hasn’t been able to bring herself to watch the finished (if you can call it that) product, but now she’s magnanimous toward everyone who worked on it. “I understand the critics were rather hostile to the film. I never saw the final cut so I can’t judge,” she writes. “All I’ll say is nobody sets out to give a poor performance or make a bad film.
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