NEWRY-born Naoimh Morgan is dancing like the cat that got the cream after landing her . "I think this film is about the perils of tribalism and the power of kindness," he said. when I was about eleven and being so jealous of the kids performing in the workhouse! Cats director Tom Hooper told the packed audience at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall in New York on Monday night that he'd just completed the highly anticipated movie at 8 a.m. in London the day before, making the well-heeled crowd among the first audiences to see a finished cut of the VFX-heavy film version of the hit Broadway musical. It always felt like the biggest treat of the year and those early trips made a big impression on me. All of the jobs with the company have been special for different reasons but Nutcracker! | California Privacy Rights But once you see the movie, if you give it a chance and see the movie, you will forget that side of things and you will just be involved in this story and in this new world and you'll just appreciate it for what it is," Morgan told THR. I learnt so much on this contract. It’s hard not to remind yourself of how big an opportunity you are getting sometimes and I had some pretty intense pre-show nerves every night. | Do Not Sell My Personal Information What did you enjoy most about the production and returning to a Matthew Bourne show? As soon as you start with us from the very beginning, we lead you into it, it's not scary, you become part of the world. We originally opened in Sheffield before we went into town and it was during that run I got over a lot of my nerves and hang ups about having to sing. In 2016, Danny performed as Dr Jekyll in Jekyll & Hyde at The Old Vic, which was directed and choreographed by Drew McOnie, with the show having been streamed on YouTube for a limited time earlier this year for their online series. As a regular performer with Matthew Bourne’s company, Danny made his first appearance with them in Swan Lake before going on to shows such as Nutcracker!, Edward Scissorhands and, most recently, he returned to the company last year to tour as Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet. In 2018, you played Amos Scudder in Barnum at the Menier Chocolate Factory, what was the show like to do? Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. Cats is a sung-through musical composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber, based on the 1939 poetry collection Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot.It tells the story of a tribe of cats called the Jellicles and the night they make the "Jellicle choice," deciding which cat will ascend to the Heaviside Layer and come back to a new life. I can't wait for that to happen.". See full bio » More at IMDbPro » Contact Info: View agent, publicist, legal on IMDbPro The whole job was a huge learning curve and so much of it was new to me but that’s half of the fun. I remember watching a production of Oliver! Here is the review of Cats Movie Review - Cats Movie Review Rating, can see the Runtime, Genre - cast and crew with Certificate ... Danny Collins ; Francesca Hayward ... Best Supporting Actor Male 2019 - Tamil. Just immerse yourself in it. I had never done this on a new show before and I had a week and a half to learn it and get on stage, so it was pretty exciting from the get-go. “To make someone look as realistic and human and cat-like as well is not really something that’s been seen before,” actor Danny Collins said. It was all forgotten when the show started though! I have had amazing teachers that believed in me and a really supportive family. "How cool to be part of a musical that's become such a mainstream buzz topic," Robbie Fairchild, who plays prominent cat Munkustrap, told THR. I thought they were a ballet company and I’d not have the technical ability to get in. ( Log Out /  What advice would you give someone wanting to get into a dance and theatre career? Noilly Prat: Kalene Jeans. It definitely took a bit of getting used to to look and sound confident but it was a proper thrill and the opportunity to do some stunt work was such highlight. And Mr. Mistoffles actor Laurie Davidson summed up the general mood of excitement and openness to a new type of film. I never really expected to get the job to be honest. I think we really pushed the boat out with how many props I could use in just the opening number so that was more than enough to focus my mind, haha. How was it having the show released online with The Old Vic in August? It was just wonderful. Coricopat and Tantomile. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. big-budget affairs in recent memory. ... Danny Collins' Mungojerrie and … As a part, it’s a killer because the gauntlets and the leather suit constantly constrict and overheat you and you very rarely get to leave the stage. View agent, publicist, legal and company contact details on IMDbPro Getting Started | Contributor Zone » … Naoimh Morgan as Rumpleteazer, Francesca Hayward as Victoria, Danny Collins as Mungojerrie in 'Cats' ©Universal/Courtesy Everett Col Could “Cats” … It also didn’t hurt that I just loved the music as soon as I heard it. I love clever use of props and light and puppetry to tell a story as opposed to giant set pieces. Terms of Use | See as many shows as you can and as big a variety as you can. The size of the set! It’s the biggest responsibility I have had as far as carrying a storyline is concerned so I threw everything I had at it. "If you don't know the musical, to you it's just humans covered in fur and that's like, 'What is this? It’s all a bit of an adrenaline rush and you’d always be covered in bruises after a performance and never remember how you got any of them. Yes, I remember it really well. Universal, $29.98, 4/7/2020. ... After the DVD release, watch the film as many times as necessary to match each actor to his/her cat… Observe their behaviors/personalities and determine if any name changes would be fitting. Daniel Evans’ direction and the talent in both casts did so much to build up my confidence as an actor and it was a really special version of Show Boat to be part of. Marvel Or DC - Which Comics Do You Like Most? Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. It’s got this real gut-buster of an opening number that just builds and builds to Terry Davis’ amazing rework of Bizet’s Carmen and it just leaves the whole company gasping and dripping in sweat. I love anything really innovative. Well, The Car Man is one of my all-time favourite shows for sure and I loved playing Rocco. It’s the only time someone has written a show with me in mind as a character and that’s part of what makes it so special. by ( Log Out /  There were only eleven shows of Jekyll & Hyde so it was fantastic to share it with so many more people. Then we had a twenty-minute pre-show where we went out into the bar and did magic tricks and general flimflam and stupidity. I remember listening to the music non-stop on the way to and from rehearsals and even when I was in bed because there is so much detail in it to help you tell the story. or Play Without Words and it was really wonderful to learn this movement years after I had already done tours of those later shows. I started dancing at a local school in a church hall when I was five and I guess that was that. So we were always expecting some reaction to it. For his first screen role, Danny Collins played Mungojerrie in the 2019 feature film Cats which was distributed worldwide through Universal Pictures and based on the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical of the same name. The cinematic event of the decade, Cats has finally arrived in cinemas and, oh, Lord, it is an horrific ride you absolutely won’t want to miss. eliot based on the musical by andrew lloyd webber Hilary Lewis From Universal Pictures. On a big rall in the score, you throw your arms up and it starts to snow on the audience. I was still performing in Show Boat for the four rehearsal weeks and the buzz I got from it definitely helped with some of the doubling up fatigue. I feel like I learn a lot just by watching. The company very kindly let me have a cover show close enough to London so my family could watch and it’s one of my most special memories. and Sleeping Beauty? What was it like working on your first feature film and how different did you find it to your stage career? ... Danny Collins) in Cats. I stupidly hadn’t seen any of their productions and I didn’t realise how narrative the work was. Starring Taylor Swift, Idris Elba. Played by: Jaih Betote and Zizi Strallen. I thought the strong reaction was quite amusing really — my personal feeling is that was kind of better than there being no reaction, than people kind of being like 'meh.' I loved watching musicals when they were on TV too, especially Singin’ in the Rain and West Side Story, and I think I’ve always tried to emulate Gene Kelly and Donald O’Connor in some way. Playing Jekyll is a role I am most grateful for in my career so far. I try to see as much theatre as I can when I have the time. 'Cats' Movie Explained: Breaking Down the Cast, the Plot and Taylor Swift's 'Beautiful Ghosts' ET breaks down everything you need to know about Andrew Lloyd Webber's hit … We recently spoke to Danny about playing Mungojerrie in Cats, his time as Dr Jekyll in The McOnie Company’s Jekyll & Hyde and performing in Matthew Bourne’s productions. I just remember really loving the audition material and treating it like a great experience. Introducing the film before its screening — which was watched with rapt attention as numerous songs, including Jennifer Hudson's rendition of "Memory," earned cheers and loud applause — Hooper indicated that the tale might be particularly timely in a polarized political climate. I had to do a good bit of the shoot on a wire up something very high, and singing and dancing simultaneously is tricky enough, but there’s not much that can prepare you for doing it along a 12ft high wall that’s only a foot wide. Played by Danny Collins and Naoimh Morgan, respectively, Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer deliver one of the most genuinely fun musical numbers in the entire movie. You’ve worked with Drew McOnie on Jekyll & Hyde, what was it like playing Dr Jekyll? A number of observers seemed unnerved by the look of stars like Taylor Swift and Idris Elba as anthropomorphic cats with a blend of "digital fur technology" and the actors' faces and human anatomy and movements. How did you find your time as Frank Shultz in Show Boat in the West End? Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter ahead of Monday's world premiere, though, a number of the Cats actors said they were just pleased their production was getting so much attention and attributed any backlash to the shock of something new, particularly felt by those who weren't familiar with the Broadway musical, which features actors in lavish makeup and fur-covered costumes, moving like felines. Grant’s score was composed exactly to the story Drew wanted to tell so the emotional journey of Jekyll was already laid out in the music clear as day. It was all built to scale as if we were the size of a cat so seeing this giant world for the first time was mind-blowing. What is this world?' Categories: Dance, Film & TV, home, Interview, Stage. I’d feel my legs going numb halfway through Act One, so I was happy to just still be alive at the end of it, haha. An aging rock star receives a life-changing letter and decides to find out what his life could have been like in Danny Collins, the inspiring story of an unexpected second act from writer and director Dan Fogelman. So I think we're OK.", Mungojerrie actor Danny Collins said, "To make someone look as realistic and human and cat-like as well is not really something that's been seen before. Best Actress Tamil 2019. Sleeping Beauty was also very special because it was my first original product for the company and I loved being part of the creative process. Don’t stop training or trying to improve yourself because it keeps you inspired and feeling part of the industry even when you are out of work for a long time. So many of the numbers in Early Adventures were the inspiration to make entire shows later down the line like Nutcracker! TWITTER Pensacola State College Transcript Request, Ropo Real Name, Personal Health Record Template, 13 Eerie 2, Pippa Middleton Wedding Tiara Cost, Bonjour Tristesse Analysis, Export Finance In International Marketing, Live Traffic Waterfall, Bankbridge School Closing, Oklahoma Career Tech District Map, Aaft Animation Fees, " /> Danny Collins is an actor, known for Cats (2019) and Matthew Bourne's the Car Man 2015 (2016). These striped twin tabby cats … There’s so much great work happening in the UK all the time I couldn’t name them all, but off the top of my head, and excluding people I’ve worked for, I’d say work by companies like Kneehigh or Wise Children and Frantic Assembly always leave me really inspired. Sitemap | It got 38k views on YouTube so we were over the moon with the response. That’s the advice I’d give myself when I graduated anyway. © 2021 The Hollywood Reporter, LLC. Still riding high on the hits from his heyday, singer Danny Collins (Al Pacino) It’s rare to have a live performance filmed properly and it was just a treat to see everyone dancing their hearts out again. Where does your love of dance and theatre come from and how did you get into them? Can you say about the Early Adventures tour that you were part of? There’s always a challenge or a new skill I have to learn in my stage career so there was little difference in it in that regard. ( Log Out /  It was the whole shebang and it really stretched me as a performer. Reviewed by Colin Jacobson: Both a critical disaster and a box office bomb, Cats provides one of the most 'what were they thinking?' "When you think about Avatar, when Avatar first came out, everyone was like, 'Ooh, oh god! Playing Edward at the Southampton Mayflower with my whole family watching. I think a lot of people who have never seen the stage show before and don't know the concept of it at all were like, 'What is this? Cats' inspiration is Andrew Lloyd Webber's live musical adaptation of T.S Eliot ... (and the relationship between actor and viewer). Everyone was really supportive as ever and it was great fun to throw myself into a role without having time to over analyse it. Preparing for it was fairly straightforward because Grant Olding and Drew make such a great team. (from left) Rumpleteazer (Naoimh Morgan), Victoria (Francesca Hayward) and Mungojerrie (Danny Collins) in "Cats," co-written and directed by Tom Hooper. Frank was my first speaking role and I was super aware of my lack of experience of using my voice. How was it filming as Mungojerrie in the 2019 film Cats and what was the experience like on set? Danny Collins is a British actor and dancer, who portrays Mungojerrie in the 2019 film adaptation of Cats.. “So we were always expecting some reaction to it. I literally couldn’t believe my luck! Now it sounds like I’m making excuses, but as the cover I didn’t get a lot of time to acclimatise to all the gear and it really made it the most exhausting thing I have ever done. '", Naoimh Morgan, the actress behind his onscreen partner in crime, Rumpleteazer, added that she "was not surprised at that reaction.". I mean, the show doesn’t really let up from there either! DANNY COLLINS . You played George Monroe and covered Edward in Edward Scissorhands, what are your favourite memories from your time in the show? "I was just obsessed with the fact that I had ears and a tail," he said of his reaction to the trailer. I was probably having more fun than some of the punters some nights! As I had already worked with Drew on the previous McOnie Company productions he knew me well so, luckily, I popped into his head as Jekyll as he was dreaming up the show. This was all pretty terrifying at first having to improv and keep your carnival persona going so close to your audience but I really loved it when I got into the swing of things. "I hadn't hosted a talk show before the Late Late Show and acting was all I ever did and there was a part of me that was worried when I took that show that these opportunities would no longer come my way, and so to be here at the premiere of this musical and to fly back to L.A. to shoot another musical for Netflix and then to carry on with my late-night show is a life I never thought I would have," the Bustopher Jones actor told THR. "If I could tell my 12-year-old self that this would be my life today, his head would explode.". Considering I was dead by the interval, it was a really full on half a show! Performing Jekyll was just a joy because it starts with such an innocent love story and some really lovely comedic moments and then just spirals into such darkness and murder. Mercutio is the biggest troublemaker in the institute and I loved building up the conflict with Tybalt until our showdown. First of all, we were right on top of the audience because the show was played in the round and the Menier Chocolate Factory is a pretty intimate space already. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. Munkustrap: Robbie Fairchild. I was more than a little chuffed when The Old Vic picked it as part of its online run. Victoria breaks into a human household with near-identical burglar cats Mungojerrie (Danny Collins) and Rumpleteazer (Naoimh Morgan), and the humans happen to … It wasn’t a career opportunity I had realistically imagined happening so I just tried to drink in every moment of it. But I think Avatar did pretty well. I couldn’t have asked for a more perfect debut in the West End. Do you remember how you felt booking your first role with Matthew Bourne in Swan Lake, and can you say about some of your earlier roles in his productions such as Nutcracker! All rights reserved. It's a special, magical ride.". I used to dance around the living room to Dance of the Knights when I was a kid, play-sword fighting with my brothers. The more creative the staging and the more mediums to tell a story the better. For some reason, the shows that end in a big tragedy always seem to be the most satisfying to perform and get the biggest audience reactions. "I think, in this moment, to make a film which shows that one kind act can redeem a lost soul is what I'd like to be making.". Danny made his West End debut as Frank Shultz in the musical Show Boat, after opening with the show in Sheffield, and the following year, he played Amos Scudder in Barnum at the Menier Chocolate Factory. ( Log Out /  Well, it’s performing a little piece of New Adventures history which is just lovely. 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I auditioned for Swan Lake without an agent so I remember getting my offer through an email instead of a phone call unusually and I had to read it a couple of times to believe it. Mungojerrie: Danny Collins. The cherry on top is Edward gets a really epic bow! I joined R&J about halfway through the tour as a last-minute replacement as the current Mercutio sadly had to leave due to an injury. I also hadn’t performed with the company in a few years so I just really enjoyed being back on stage with them. Danny Collins is an actor, known for Cats (2019) and Matthew Bourne's the Car Man 2015 (2016). 8:47 PM PST 12/17/2019 The music is just amazing too. | EU Privacy Preferences. Moving around it easily was definitely one of the biggest challenges. Change ). And on the black carpet, in front of a backdrop designed to look like set pieces from the film, with various storefronts, including a milk bar, as well as trash cans and crates of fish, James Corden said his younger self was feeling a slightly different sense of awe, grateful for continued acting opportunities amid his CBS late-night gig.