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The Super Serious ‘Cats’ Behind-The-Scenes Teaser Sure Did Inspire Some Jokes And Memes

On Wednesday, the upcoming Cats movie dropped not a trailer but a behind-the-scenes featurette hyping up the already hotly anticipated project by Les Misérables director Tom Hooper. The big-screen adaptation stars some of the biggest names in film and music, including Jennifer Hudson, Taylor Swift, Sir Ian McKellen, Dame Judi Dench, Idris Elba, James Corden, and Rebel Wilson, all of whom acted out their scenes on camera and were then digitally altered to give them a full fur coat onscreen.

And just in case anyone had the illusion that a film in which A-listers prance around like felines is not 100 percent serious business, the featurette is here to change that.

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“I was cast in 1981,” explains Dench, of her history with the musical. “Just before we opened I snapped my Achilles tendon and I thought that was my history with Cats. But it turns out not to be.” Hudson, a newcomer, on the other hand, relayed that she “instantly I felt the pressure” when she first heard she was going to be in the film. “This musical is timeless,” added Swift.

The clip nearly turned into full satire, however, when Corden offered his own soundbite. “Tom’s pairing them with a kind of level of technology which I don’t think has ever been used before,” he said, incredulously. “These are people but they’re cats and this is kind of blowing my mind.”

In other words, it didn’t take long for people to fixate on that one line in particular, which quickly became a meme on Twitter:

Others had jokes about Swift’s appearance and commentary in the video, particularly when she talks about going to “cat school.”

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Some couldn’t help pointing out the resemblance to a certain IFC comedy series:

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And then there were plenty of other random observations and memes:

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The official trailer for Cats finally drops on Friday, so we’ll finally get to see what the big fuss is about. Expect even more memes!

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