the casting department spent all its budget trying to find a humanoid cat, and after running out of money just hired a regular cat and had a James Brown impersonator overdub its lines
Danny John-Jules would love this, he would’ve done an entire episode dubbing an actual cat.
Also just wanna quote this part of his wiki article:
He got the part of Cat by turning up half an hour late for his audition, dressed in his father’s old zoot suit. He was unaware that he was late and hence did not appear at all concerned about it. The producers immediately decided he was cool enough to be “the Cat”.
the casting department spent all its budget trying to find a humanoid cat, and after running out of money just hired a regular cat and had a James Brown impersonator overdub its lines
Danny John-Jules would love this, he would’ve done an entire episode dubbing an actual cat.
Also just wanna quote this part of his wiki article: