When people first saw the trailer for the forthcoming film, Cats, they had a lot of questions. We, for one, just wanted to know how an actor prepares to play a feline. When we recently caught up with Rebel Wilson to discuss her Match partnership, she happily let the cat out of the bag (sorry, had to).
“We had something called cat school, which was really fun. You’re all together on the floor pretending to be cats. I did [my training] with some of the amazing dancers and Sir Ian McKellen,” the 39-year-old Isn’t It Romantic Star explained.
Wilson went on to say that cat school really pushed the cast’s personal boundaries: “It was just surreal at some points because you’re like, ‘Oh, my God. I can’t believe we’re doing this.’ And you’re licking—well not full on licking people—but nuzzling people and crawling on people. It was really interesting.” Um, yeah.
Since she mentioned esteemed actor Sir Ian McKellen, we couldn’t help but wonder if Wilson had to lick and/or nuzzle the Oscar nominee during cat school.