It’s all the time chaotic when an actor storms off a movie set, and Director Matthew Vaughn bumped into this downside in the course of the filming of Argylle, an upcoming spy comedy from Apple TV+. Many administrators have confronted erratic star conduct like this, however for Vaughn, this explicit disappearing act hit near home. In this case, Vaughn had an in depth relationship with the solid member. In truth, they have been residing collectively.
This might be a great time to inform you that the disappearing actor was Chip, the director’s household cat. That’s proper, Matthew Vaughn solid his personal pet for the Apple+ film, and as soon as on set, he was starting to see simply how troublesome it was.
During a press session at New York Comic Con, Vaughn defined how Chip acquired concerned within the manufacturing. “I cast him because I fired the first cat. That was an acting cat that behaved badly. It was fucking expensive and useless. I’m not mad about cats, to be clear. I’m a dog person. But my girls have cats.” Vaughn defined.
Before casting Chip within the movie, Vaughn needed to clear issues along with his daughter. Luckily, she was amenable. “I said to my daughter, ‘Can I borrow the cat?’ And she went, ‘No problem, how long?’ I said three months. I didn’t think it through that I became the cat-handler. I literally had to drive to work with the cat. I had the cat in my trailer, and on the set. But to his credit, he behaved like a dog. I don’t know what happened, and I fell in love with the cat. He was a great cat. I was intrigued by it. I watched my daughter and she treats him like a dog. She roughs it up, throws things, and they play.”
However, cats are unpredictable, identical to Hollywood actors. “He ran off once from the set. Everyone was freaking the fuck out because we were in the middle of a soundstage in the middle of nowhere. There was panic. I was going to have to go home and say I lost the cat. He’s quite a unique looking cat, and we’re like, what do we do now? Luckily, he ran off and went back to the trailer. We were very relieved. So that’s why we put a tracker on him,” Vaughn recalled.
I requested Vaughn if his daughter can be open to lending the cat out for future productions, and he had an amusing reply. “I think next time she’ll need to charge me. When I told her how much the other cat-handler was being paid, she was like, ‘Fuck, I would have come.’ She’s wised up to that.”
Look for Chip as Alfie the Cat in Argylle, premiering February 2, 2024 on Apple+.
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