The movie, that is.
Lloyd Weber said the airline asked for therapy dog proof, and he directed them to the 2019 film.
“The airline wrote back and said, ‘Can you prove that you really need him?’
Andrew Lloyd Webber and a scene from ‘Cats’.Dave Benett/Getty Images; Universal Pictures
And I said ‘Yes, just see what Hollywood did to my musicalCats,'” he recalled.
“Then the approval came back with a note saying, ‘No doctor’s report required.'”
Catswas directed byTom Hooper, though Lloyd Weber noted thatSteven Spielbergwas previously expected to helm an animated version.
(Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment co-produced the 2019 film.)
Hooper’sCatsstarredJames Corden,Judi Dench,Idris Elba,Taylor Swift,Jennifer Hudson, andRebel Wilson.
“There wasn’t really any understanding of why the music ticked at all,” he toldVariety.
“I saw it and I just thought, ‘Oh, God, no.'”
So the one good thing to come out of it is my little Havanese puppy."
We’re guessing he didn’t name the dog Bombalurina.
