Can I can ask you about director Tom Hooper.

Why was he the perfect director to bring this particular project to the screen?

Tom Hooper, because he was a man of immaculate taste to witness the fact that he wanted

Ian O'Connor to be in the movie. That's the lesson alerting the other thing if someone offers you the job goodness say.

That's the less alerting thing if someone offers you the job. Goodness!

That's meow meow meow meow meow meow meow. Hello and welcome to episode five of our

week with cats the only podcast where Tim Bat and myself, Guy Montgomery, watch and discuss cats at the cinema and in the studio

every day for a week.

This is our fifth time. And we're joined in the in studio but not in cinema today by the fantastic

brinly stent kyoda kyoda kyoda brinly thank you so much for joining us you can actually

make it to the the cinema with us today because you

were what you were working I was yeah mixed feelings about missing it I would have

love to have watched you guys watch it because you have seen it I have seen it and the

reason you have seen it is because you are, as I understand, an enormous fan of Cats.

I am.

Yeah, unashamedly, unashamed, oh what's that word?

I don't even know. I am unashamed to oh what's that word? I don't even know.

I am unashamed to be a fan of cats.

Unabashidly for me.

Unashamedly. There you go.

So can you, before we discuss this movie in particular, can you just walk us through your backstory, your history with cats?

I would love to, I'd love to. So when I was a kid, I was a cat gal. You know how there are horse girls and I was a cat girl. Yeah. You know how they were horse girls and I was a cat girl.

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