SPOILER WARNING : This story discusses plot points from “ A Quiet Place: Day One ,” now playing in theaters. Audiences watching “A Quiet Place: Day One” might find themselves rooting for an unlikely hero: Frodo the cat. That’s because director Michael Sarnoski wanted the black and white kitty to feel like a real character.
“We managed to get through the whole movie without creating a CG cat, which was a big victory for us,” he declares, proudly. Instead, Frodo is played by two cats, Schnitzel and Nico. “Day One,” the third outing of John Krasinski’s hit horror franchise takes viewers back to the day faceless alien beasts invaded New York City and subsequently the rest of the world.
These creatures, known as Death Angels, have extremely sensitive hearing and attack at the slightest sound. Frodo belongs to Samira (Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o ) and is a service animal, who at first is kept on a leash. He accompanies Samira on her trip to New York to visit the theater, but things go disastrously wrong when the city comes under attack.
Samira’s goal is to survive, with Frodo in tow. In an interview with Variety , Sarnoski explained why Frodo was chosen to be Samira’s furry companion. “A cat is one of the only things that you might be able to manage maybe a bunny rabbit, but a dog would not do very well,” he says.
Along the way, Samira meets Eric (Joseph Quinn) and while that duo is figuring out how to survive, Frodo tends to wander off — as cats do .
