‘In homage to cockroach limbs’: Tom Hooper’s Cats commentary deepens the mystery

The man behind the much-maligned musical film has shared some of its secrets – prepare to be baffledTom Hooper, the Oscar-winning director of The King’s Speech, has revealed (some of) the logic behind the creative choices guiding his most recent film, Cats.A starry version of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s hit stage musical, Cats primarily met with ridicule, nausea and confusion when it premiered just before Christmas last year.

Critics queried the special effects and unnecessary eroticism, audiences largely stayed away and some of the stars disowned the film.

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