UK Scoop: Dame Judi Dench Joins Tom Hooper’s All-Star “Cats” with Jennifer Hudson, Idris Elba, Taylor Swift

Great news tonight from the UK: exclusive from the Daily Mail’s Baz Bamigboye reveals that Dame Judi Dench has joined Tom Hooper’s all-star movie of “Cats,” based on the hit musical.

Dame Judi joins Jennifer Hudson, Idris Elba, Taylor Swift, Sir Ian McKellen, and James Corden. She’ll play Old Deuteronomy, but we’ll think of her as Young, just as well!

Wow: I may actually be able to watch this movie now. They’re really sweetening the pot every day. After this, I do hope Tom Hooper gets back to drama without music. First “Les Miz,” now this.

Judi Dench makes everything better. You can’t deny it!

Exclusive: #JudiDench to play gender-swap Old Deuteronomy in ⁦@Working_Title⁩ Film’s prod of ⁦@OfficialALW⁩ ( with T.S.Elliot) #Cats which #TomHooper shoots from https://t.co/PmN0f1VmrS of Judi in hosp after tearing Achilles’ tendon. Had to w/draw original stage Cats pic.twitter.com/hH6ggeZxZK

— Baz Bamigboye (@BazBam) October 18, 2018