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Taylor Swift‘s fingerprints were all over Matthew Vaughn’s February movie Argylle — and her three cats‘ paw prints are positively within the combine, too.
In a brand new Hollywood Reporter story analyzing Hollywood’s recent surge in cat content material, the director revealed that one of many highlights of his 2024 thriller thriller — the inclusion of a kitty sidekick named Alfie, whom Bryce Dallas Howard’s character carries round in a pet backpack — was straight impressed by the pop star’s affinity for felines. Specifically, it borrows from a scene in Swift’s Netflix documentary Miss Americana, which exhibits the singer carrying an identical backpack containing her Scottish Fold, Olivia.
“I saw a Taylor Swift documentary where she has her cat in a cat-pack and I remember thinking it was a crazy image,” Vaughn instructed THR, which is a sister publication to Billboard.
According to the filmmaker, an earlier model of Argylle‘s script had Howard’s Elly Conway go away Alfie behind, as a spy performed by Sam Rockwell whisks her away right into a world of violence and espionage. But Vaughn modified his thoughts, and the little cat ended up being one of many film’s huge promoting factors.
“I thought having the three of them going on an adventure together would be fantastic,” he added. “I was nervous about it being a cat, because cats aren’t exactly the most trainable animal.”
The article — aptly titled “Cats Are Finally Having a Big Hollywood Meow-Ment” — additionally credit Swift as giving the creatures a recognition enhance together with her personal love of cats. The 14-time Grammy winner can also be cat mother to kitties Meredith and Benjamin, posing with the latter on the duvet of Time for her December Person of the Year interview.
It’s solely becoming that Swift performed a small half in influencing Argylle, contemplating how many individuals suspected she secretly authored the actual life Elly Conway’s e book of the identical title, which the movie was based mostly off of. Shortly earlier than the flick hit theaters, although, Vaughn confirmed that it wasn’t the case.
Howard, nonetheless, revealed across the similar time that she positively had Swift in thoughts as she was shaping her efficiency. “She is a cat lady,” the actress stated on The Graham Norton Show in January. “She’s got this awesome backpack with a cat in [it] that she walks around with. She loves a good argyle sweater, and there is a sort of unapologetic dorkiness about her. That’s a little bit like what my character is like.”
