{"id":491642,"date":"2019-10-25T13:21:39","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T19:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=903994"},"modified":"2019-10-25T13:21:39","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T19:21:39","slug":"taylor-swift-says-she-auditioned-for-les-miserables-before-cats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/taylor-swift-says-she-auditioned-for-les-miserables-before-cats\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift Says She Auditioned for \u2018Les Mis\u00e9rables\u2019 Before \u2018Cats\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/TaylorSwift.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>On the inaugural episode of Zane Lowe\u2019s <em>New Music Daily<\/em> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/apple\/\" id=\"auto-tag_apple\" data-tag=\"apple\">Apple<\/a> Music\u2019s Beats 1, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/taylor-swift\">Taylor Swift<\/a> spoke with Lowe about her experience working on&nbsp;<em>Cats<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/tom-hooper\/\" id=\"auto-tag_tom-hooper\" data-tag=\"tom-hooper\">Tom Hooper<\/a>\u2019s film adaptation of the Andrew Lloyd Webber <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/musical\/\" id=\"auto-tag_musical\" data-tag=\"musical\">musical<\/a> of the same name.<\/p>\n<p>Swift revealed that she had done screen tests for a previous musical adaptation of Hooper\u2019s, 2012\u2019s <em>Les Mis\u00e9rables<\/em>, for the role of \u00c9ponine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t get it, but it was such an amazing experience just doing the screen test, and I was obviously like, \u2018I\u2019m not going to get this,&#8217;\u201d Swift says. \u201cBecause the other girl was amazing and was on the West End. Samantha Barks, she\u2019s incredible and she fully killed the role and was amazing. I was watching it being like, \u2018This is incredible.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Swift goes on to emphasize her love of musical theater, as well as cats, of course: \u201cI started out doing musical theater as a kid. It\u2019s what made me fall in love with performing as a medium. And so basically when I was approached this time, it was a straight-up offer. And I love kitty cats and the situation just kept getting more interesting because I accepted the role. They show us this demo of this digital fur that they\u2019re adding to us. And I was like, \u2018Yes.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/taylor-swift-cats-les-miserables-tom-hooper-903994\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the inaugural episode of Zane Lowe\u2019s New Music Daily on Apple Music\u2019s Beats 1, Taylor Swift spoke with Lowe about her experience working on&nbsp;Cats, Tom Hooper\u2019s film adaptation of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical of the same name. Swift revealed that she had done screen tests for a previous musical adaptation of Hooper\u2019s, 2012\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-491642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-22 03:57:11","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}