

As a movie starring Derulo and the rest, it’s just as hard to parse, though not without its pleasures. Eliot poems, it introduces a series of idiosyncratic feline characters, many of whom are competing at the annual “Jellicle Ball” to receive the honor of ascending to the “Heaviside Layer” and starting a new life. So how did one of pop’s sexiest voices, best known for club-favorite songs like “Wiggle” and “Talk Dirty,” end up in a PG movie musical helmed by the Les Misérables and The King’s Speech director Tom Hooper, based on the legendary Broadway show by Andrew Lloyd Webber, and co-starring the likes of Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Taylor Swift, Jennifer Hudson, Idris Elba, James Corden and Rebel Wilson?Ī word about Cats: as one of Broadway’s longest-running and highest-grossing productions of all time, its cult-favorite status is hard to explain. While making the rounds to promote Cats, he also spoke on the same theme when discussing the editing process for the “digital fur technology,” a topic that commanded widespread attention when the first trailer dropped this summer. He has been basking in the viral attention he’s received after a picture he shared on Instagram of himself in his underwear was removed for violating the platform’s Community Guidelines, prompting the hashtag #BringBackAnaconda. His eyes gleam almost as much as the glittering diamond choker around his neck it’s been a good week for Derulo. And now he’s here: in a suite at New York’s opulent Plaza Hotel, just a few hours before the world premiere of the star-studded Cats. He notched his first big hit in 2009 with his moody pop-R&B debut single “Whatcha Say,” but he knew he wanted to be a performer at the tender age of four, after discovering Michael Jackson. Derulo knows this because he’s been putting in the work to make it in showbiz for his entire life.
