Christina Applegate Interview for Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore - Celebrity Interviews

Christina Applegate is best known for her work in TV, as airhead Kelly Bundy on the sitcom Married…With Children, as well as Samantha Newly on the ABC sitcom Samantha Who? But Applegate has also done many films, including comedies like Don’t Tell Mom The Babysitter’s Dead, The Big Hit, The Sweetest Thing, and Anchorman: The Legend Of Ron Burgundy.

Now the 38 year-old actress continues her voice work in the family film Cats & Dogs: The Revenge Of Kitty Galore. Christina gave us the 411 on her character.

“I play Catherine, who is the agent from Meows,” she describes, “She’s an incredibly sophisticated, smart agent – spy-like, if you will – and she begrudgingly has to be teamed up with these dogs in order for her to stop Kitty Galore, who is about to destroy her universe as well. I love her. I think she’s a really wonderful, rich cat.”

Applegate was also asked about whether she was a cat or dog person.

“I am a both-person,” Christina describes, “I love all the animals. All shapes, colors, sizes, and species.”

Christina described the process of doing voice work for the film, which she says was quickly revealed to her is not the easy payday it appears to be on the surface.

“It took me a minute to figure out exactly what was going on,” Applegate recalls, “My first session with them, I had worked on Samantha Who? until 9:00 in the morning and then I had to be there at 11:00, so I wasn’t in the best possible condition to start doing this kind of voice. But director Brad [Peyton] kept saying, “More energy, more energy.” I think, with a lot of other animated movies, they can animate thought in the eyes of the character and they can animate physicality and all of these things, but for this, these are real dogs and cats, with our characters, at least, there was very little that was enhanced.”

“So it really was a cat sitting there,” she adds, “So what we really had to do is convey so much through the voice, and I think that’s when I finally understood when he said, “More energy.” It wasn’t ‘Louder, bigger’, it needed to be so full because that cat is not going to swerv....

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Bette Midler Interview for Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore

Bette Midler is a legendary triple threat, a singer, actor, and comedian. She started out in theater, before her larger-than-life stage presence expanded into pop stardom in the 1970’s. By the 1980’s and 1990’s, it expanded into films like The Rose, Beaches, Stella, Hocus Pocus, The First Wives Club, and The Stepford Wives.

Now at age 64, Midler translates her legendary talents to a whole new medium, voice work, with the film Cats & Dogs: The Revenge Of Kitty Galore. The still-Divine Miss M gave us the 411 on her character.

“I’m a cat,” Bette describes of it, “I play Kitty Galore. Kitty Galore is an Egyptian sphinx cat. She’s hairless except for a little hair on her tail. She’s very cranky because she’s been rejected by her beloved human family and she’s determined to rule the world.”

“I came in for a number of sessions and it was really curious because, when I first started, it was just a sketch,” she continues, “As time went on, the backgrounds of the other characters got more and more filled in. That was very exciting to watch. I’ve never experienced that before.”

Bette was also asked about whether she was a cat or dog person.

“In real life, my pet passed,” Midler replies, “I’m a non-pet person at this point.

Midler described the process of doing voice work for the film.

“ It’s not just isolating,” she reveals, “it’s a little bit lonely because it’s just you in a dark room with a sketch of a character or sometimes a filled-in scene, but still you don’t work with the other actors,” It’s like one long looping session. It’s like, ‘Oh my God, ADR for days.’ The real thrill, I think, comes from seeing the finished product. The fact that [director] Brad [Peyton] could keep all these balls in the air and make all these that would form into one movie, it was absolutely staggering to me. I couldn’t imagine how you did it, because he was working with live actors, he was working with animals.”

“There’s nothing harder than working with animals,” Bette adds, “Those animals really looked like they knew what they were doing, but honestly, they’re animals. ‘Stay, stay, stay.’ I worked with animals before and it’s like, ‘Oh God.’ So the.....

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Sarah Jessica Parker

Sarah Jessica Parker is the quintessential total package in a comedic actress, sassy, sharp, gorgeous, and most importantly, silly. Throughout her career, she’s been able to display many of these different talents from TV’s Square Pegs to Footloose to L.A. Story to Honeymoon In Vegas to Hocus Pocus.

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