Nicole Scherzinger ‘devastated’ she wasn’t allowed to audition for Cats movie
Pussycat Dolls frontwoman previously played Grizabella in the West End
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Your support makes all the difference.Nicole Scherzinger has revealed she was “devastated” that she wasn’t allowed to audition for the forthcoming Cats movie.
The Pussycat Dolls frontwoman and X Factor judge previously played the role of Grizabella in the show’s 2014 West End revival, and was surprised when told the casting directors for the film were not interested in seeing her read for the part.
“That really upset me, I won’t lie about that,” she told The Guardian. “I was devastated.”
Scherzinger revealed that she was comforted over the phone by Andrew Lloyd Webber’s wife Madeline, but that she was still hurt by the snub.
“I just wanted to be given a fair opportunity – then you can turn me down,” she continued. “Turn me down to my face, at least, and they didn’t.”
Lloyd Webber previously said he was left “furious” after Scherzinger backed out of a scheduled Broadway run as Grizabella to return to The X Factor in 2016.
“She’s crazy,” Lloyd Webber said at the time. “But the American producers just took a view, ‘Well, fine, we’ll get somebody else’, because she’s actually not very well known in America, amazingly.”
He added, “I’m furious because I really believe she’s the most fantastically talented girl and I went out on a limb to get her for the London Palladium here, and it makes me look like an absolute twot with them all. But never mind, there’ll be another girl on Broadway and Nicole will not get her Tony award.”
Scherzinger last night confirmed that her former band, Pussycat Dolls, will reform for a 2020 tour, with a special performance on The Celebrity X Factor this weekend.
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