The classic celebrity biographical film "The Passionate Life of Louis Wayne" is directed by "Doctor Strange" acting superstar Benedict Cumberbatch, Gold Award actress Claire Foy, and British up-and-coming director Tomomori Fukuda, unveiling the legendary life of genius cat painter Louis Wayne.
Hollywood actor Benedict Cumberbatch interprets cat painter Louis Wayne, who embarks on a love painting journey with his wife's cat "Peter", which in turn changes the British people's impression of cats and also changes "cat life". And the figure of many cats in the film, it turned out that the crew spent nearly 3 months to find 40 real cats, which also made the male protagonist who loves cats feel super happy at every moment of filming, bluntly saying that every day on the set is turned over, is his first work with animals to have an intimate confrontation, but also laughed that the cats on the set of shooting specifications, far higher than the stars, the whole crew are subject to the charm of the cute cat.
The Passionate Life of Louis Wayne tells the life and love story of the talented British illustrator Louis Wayne, known for painting cats, who is deeply rooted in people's hearts with playful and colorful cat paintings. In the United Kingdom, there are two well-known and also named "Peter" animals, one is from the British female writer and illustrator Beatrice Potter's hand of "Peter Rabbit", a warm and moving story, making this role is still the world's reddest rabbit, in addition to this is the cat painter Louis Wayne and his wife's favorite cute pet, but also the inspiration for Wayne's cat paintings - "Peter Cat", because this pet cat named Peter, deeply loved the heart of Wayne, who loves cats, The cat paintings that prompted him to create cat paintings were deeply popular throughout Britain, and the mischievous anthropomorphic cats were always published in best-selling magazines, making him a household name at the end of the 19th century.
Wayne seems to have used magic to make the British people completely fall in love with cats, in addition to promoting the social status of cats, he also personally speaks for cats, serves as the president of the British Cat Association, and also participates in many animal love groups, and even helps promote felines as family pets, changing the British public's perception of cats, not only as harmful animals that can catch mice, completely changing the "cat life".
Cats are extremely important to the protagonist Louis Wayne, and account for a considerable proportion in the film, the director hopes to present the real emotions of the characters, but also wants to capture the real appearance of the cat, decided to use real cats to shoot the whole film, avoiding the use of computer CG synthesis technology to process the picture of the cat.
Doctor Strange said that this is the first time to get along with so many real cats on the set: "I especially love Peter every time, and I feel that he and I play Wayne are closely related to life." 」 At the same time, I also felt that being surrounded by cute cats during filming was particularly happy and more into the scene, but he also quipped and shared: "One of the ways to call the cats on set is to use the ringer, train them to complete the task to get food rewards, or call them back, so I hear the sound of the ringing every day, even when I am in the car after work, or when I come home, I still have the sound of the ringing in my ears." 」
The crew specially mobilized nearly 3 months to find real cats, found 40 cats to participate in the film shooting, each of them is worth a lot, and even a very expensive pure-blood British short-haired cat participated in it, the total insurance cost exceeded 10 million Taiwan dollars, the crew and the main actors are quite precious These delicate guests, even the shooting mode is "customized", the director said: "We have an exclusive shooting mode of cats, whenever a cat enters the scene, we are very quiet, can not have sudden action, And you can't make a lot of noise." He also joked that the treatment of cats on the set was higher than that of movie stars, but they all fell in love with these kittens and felt happy!