Tom Hooper says the 'Look What You make Me Do' singer did't get the 'Les Miserables' role because it was not right for her due to 'the most flattering reason.'
- Dec 25, 2019
AceShowbiz - Taylor Swift missed out on the role of Eponine in her "Cats" director Tom Hooper's 2012 film "Les Miserables" because he thought she had too much star power.
The filmmaker has revealed Swift auditioned for the role, but he couldn't believe that anyone would pass her up for another woman - as Eddie Redmayne's character does in the film after falling for Amanda Seyfried's Cosette.
"She rather brilliantly auditioned for Eponine," Hooper told Vulture. "I didn't cast her, but I got very close to it."
"Ultimately, I couldn't quite believe Taylor Swift was a girl people would overlook. So it didn't quite feel right for her for the most flattering reason."
The role of Eponine eventually went to Samantha Barks, but Tom couldn't get Taylor out of his mind and he called her when he started casting "Cats".
"I knew she was curious to work on a musical... (and) I wrote to her and just said, 'Would you like to meet? Would you like to see the world I'm creating?' And I did a presentation... I had a 10-second clip of a dancer with fur, lifelike. That was my pitch. She loved it and was very gracious and really supportive from then on."
