Taylor Swift’s Behind the Scenes with Idris Elba

Taylor Swift’s new movie, Cats, hits theaters this Friday and she’s released a behind-the-scenes montage of what it was like to make the movie.

Titled “How to be a cat,” the two-and-a-half-minute video features mostly self-shot, selfie-style footage. Swift talks about how there are “pianos in every room” of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s office, she shares some studio footage of her recording the movie’s songs, and she shows off what the inside of her trailer looked like.

There’s also footage of her on set, and clips of her both interacting with an on-set Sphynx cat and looking through books about cats, so she can better portray a (humanoid) cat. She also found parallels between the movie and her live act, saying, “There are some things that are really similar about Cats and what I do on tour, so I’m really stoked to come here and do live singing.”

Taylor also mentions that her character, Bombalurina, is a Bengal cat. “I had a Bengal cat as a child,” she recalls. “They’re psycho!”

The highlight is watching Taylor dance with Idris Elba, who plays Macavity the Mystery Cat.

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“Me and Taylor Swift do a dance together, so I’m a little intimidated,” says the actor. “But the whole team gave us a clap, y’know, it’s like ‘Welcome to show business!'”

Taylor captioned the montage, “Go see #CatsMovie in theaters December 20 (if you’re feline up for it ).”