Simone Ashley, Mo Gilligan at 10 Lives Premiere an Animation for All-Ages and Cat Lovers Alike
Writer-director Christopher Jenkins takes us on a funny and emotional adventure through the eyes and many lives of a pampered cat, Beckett, in his new film, 10 Lives , which premiered at Sundance last night. The all-star voice cast includes Simone Ashley, Singer Zayn Malik, Mo Gilligan, and Dylan Llewellyn in this heartfelt narrative about the bonds we have with our pets and promises to be enjoyed by all ages and cat lovers alike.
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00:00 (upbeat music)
00:02 - Hey, what's up?
00:03 My name is Mo Gilligan,
00:04 and you are watching Live Minute TV.
00:06 (upbeat music)
00:08 It is an animated film, but you want kids to like it,
00:13 you want adults to like it.
00:14 - Well, it's about a cat who is so full of himself,
00:17 he thinks he has humans worked out.
00:19 And taking that attitude, he's used up eight of his lives.
00:23 By the time he finds Rose, he understands that,
00:26 wait a minute, there's something more than that.
00:27 He has the perfect life for sure,
00:29 but he does have a perfect owner.
00:31 - So I play Rose in 10 Lives,
00:33 and Rose is a very kind-hearted, passionate student
00:38 who initially doesn't really want a pet or any distraction.
00:42 And then she meets Beckett,
00:43 who is just, really changes the game
00:48 as to what we think of a fluffy animal
00:50 in a kid's animation would be.
00:52 - There's a lot of famous cats out there.
00:54 You know, I'm talking about Tom and Jerry, Puss in Boots,
00:56 Top Cat, there's a lot of famous cats
00:58 that I'm in the realm of.
01:00 - The way in which the script took off from very early on
01:04 was all down to these guys.
01:05 They could make it real, they could make it,
01:08 they could actually say things
01:09 that then I took back and put into the movie.
01:12 It's a lot of improvisation in the movie.
01:14 - As much as I'm funny on the screen,
01:16 I've got to make the cat funny and not be,
01:19 let me be funny, it's like, let the cat be funny.
01:21 So that was quite a challenge.
01:23 - I was just being myself,
01:24 and actually you feel more vulnerable
01:25 because you don't really hide behind anything.
01:28 You're just being you.
01:29 - As much as I get to give Beckett a voice
01:33 and a personality, it's knowing when to be funny
01:36 or when to be compassionate.
01:37 - Well, the music is amazing.
01:39 The songs are beautiful, very heartfelt.
01:43 I actually cried at the end of the script, in a good way,
01:46 because it had that emotional zinger right at the end,
01:50 and it made you feel, oh my God,
01:52 this is something special here.
01:54 And then from then on, everything else
01:56 and started to fit into place.
01:58 (upbeat music)