Idris Elba is currently promotingHobbs & Shaw—full review later this week, but in short: I kinda love it? I think? I’m so unused to liking anythingFast/Furiousit’s hard to tell—and he stopped byThe Late Show with Stephen Colbert. While there, he mentioned that Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham gave him the gears for starring inCats. I mean, OF COURSE THEY DID. Frankly, Elba is just lucky that he madeHobbs & Shaw之前Catstrailer landed, or else he never would have been able to show his face on set. And honestly, Elba isn’t doing the most to convince me he is proud to be in Cats. He doesn’t seem totally ashamed, but there is definitely some embarrassment there. TheCatspress tour ought to be fun.
Colbert then asked Elba to explainWhat IsCats, and for a second, Elba looks legit terrified. He is not confident he can explain this movie AT ALL. But he tries, and says it has something to do with a cat trying to go to cat heaven. That can’t possibly be right. I refuse to believe that is the plot ofCats.On one hand, “cat tries to go to cat heaven” does sound cocaine-crazy enough, but on the other hand, that’s so stupid, how would it ever become a worldwide phenomenon? I don’t believe this at all. Also, everyone knows cats don’t go to heaven. They can’t! Cats are minions of Satan and when they die, they are called back to the pits of hell. Anyone who has ever owned a cat knows they are just the smallest, cutest demons. So nothing about Idris Elba’s explanation makes any sense, which seems par for the course forCats. The only logical thing aboutCatsis that The Rock and The Stath mocked Idris Elba for being in it.
