The crimson carpet for the premiere of Argylle had all types of stars walking down it. Dua Lipa was there, so had been Henry Cavill, Bryce Dallas Howard, Ariana DeBose, and Sam Rockwell. But maybe probably the most talked-about look of the night was that of Chip, the cat who stars within the movie, who made his manner alongside the carpet in a backpack alongside one of many movie’s producers, Claudia Schiffer.
How did Chip discover his method to taking part in with the ball of yarn that’s fame? It started when Matthew Vaughn, the director of the brand new thriller, which stars Bryce Dallas Howard as a spy novelist whose work follows her home, wanted a cat to play Alfie, the sidekick to Howard’s character and a vital character within the sharp, humorous, and trendy movie.
“On the first day of filming, we had a trained acting cat that was exactly what you would imagine a trained acting cat to be: a cat,” Vaughn says. However, “he wasn’t very cute, so I decided to fire him, go to my daughter’s room, and borrow her cat Chip for three months.”
It wasn’t a foul alternative. Although untrained as an actor, Chip has an unflappable mien that performs properly because the chaos of Argylle unfolds. Still, Vaughn—who produced the movie together with his spouse Claudia Schiffer—didn’t anticipate what casting Chip would entail.
“I regretted the decision, as I became the cat handler,” he says, “but Chip blossomed into the movie star he was destined to be.”