- Dame Judi Dench has reflected in detail on the disastrous 2019 film adaptation of Cats in her forthcoming memoir, Is It Too Late to Make a Run For It?
- The 91-year-old actor admitted she has never seen the final cut of the movie but described the outcome as a “waste of goodwill and talent”.
- Defending those involved in the production, Dench emphasised that people's intentions were honourable and that there were no villains in the making of the film.
- Dench had previously expressed confusion over her CGI appearance in the movie, comparing her character Old Deuteronomy to a battered, mangy old cat.
- Original musical composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and co-star James Corden have also publicly criticised or avoided watching the universally panned adaptation.
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