00:00It was just kind of meeting all these cats and finding schnitzel who had like, just like a certain thing
00:05to him. He seemed wise, he seemed older than his ears. He seemed like very like astute and sharp, but
00:14also kind of aloof in his own way. Like he seemed like he had an inner world going on. And
00:19like, I kind of bought him as like a New York street cat or something.
00:24So I think casting was a big part of it. Just finding a cat that like had the right feeling
00:28when you, when you looked at it. And then other than that, it was just a lot of trial and
00:32error, a lot of training. I mean, they trained those cats for months beforehand, you know, putting them in pools,
00:38getting them used to water, getting them used to being carried in a bag, walking on a leash, like all
00:43of that stuff.
00:45And then also like making the cats comfortable, making them comfortable with Lupita and Joe, Joe, Joe and Lupita spent
00:51a lot of time with the cats outside of shooting, just to kind of like make it so they were
00:55at ease and could look comfortable and not like, you know, they were just, why am I sitting here? What's
01:01going on?
01:02And also when you're doing something that a cat doesn't really want to do, which is like floating in a
01:06violin case in a, in a flooded subway, you know, they need to be surrounded by people that they sort
01:13of trust and feel safe around.
01:14Um, so I, I think that was, it was a combination of all those things.
01:18And then just like very specifically, like choosing the shots and actions that we wanted to capture for the cats
01:23to kind of convey these, these characters and these performances.
01:26So that was sort of a long answer, but it was a lot.
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