A flurry of feline protagonists has proven to be catnip to cinemagoers - but we demand more awards recognition meow. The most unbelievable thing about is not its premise of world-invading ultrasonic-hearing aliens, but rather that a cat in such a situation wouldn’t have everyone within its vicinity immediately killed by tapping a delicately balanced glass off a table. Cats are - and I say this with nothing but love and admiration - really dumb.
It’s why the internet loves videos of them so much. A feline flying through the air at the sight of a pea? They're more hilarious idiots than the would have us believe. But what if all this time we’ve been wrong to pigeonhole them to silly clips involving keyboards and cucumbers? A recent rise in cats being hired for film and TV roles suggests that traditional purr-ceptions are changing and dog bias is dead.
From Alfie the Scottish Fold in Matthew Vaughn’s , to Lucio the Maine Coon in Steven Zaillian’s , these are cats playing heroes and complex side characters, no longer typecast to villainous sidekicks or horror movie jump scares. In the newly released prequel, breakout performance(s) come from two tuxedo cats named Nico and Schnitzel, who together play Frodo, the emotional support animal to terminally ill Samira (Lupita Nyong'o). In typically dog-like fashion, Frodo is fiercely loyal to Samira.
He sometimes runs off when there are loud noises, but always returns. He helps chance companion, Eric (Joseph Quinn), find her med.
