Judi Dench says she was unhappy at how her Cats character looked

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Judi Dench has admitted to being unhappy about how her character in the much-derided Cats film turned out&comma; saying she looked like a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;<i>battered&comma; mangy old cat”<&sol;i>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The revered actress&comma; 85&comma; has become the oldest cover star in British Vogue’s 104-year history&comma; gracing the front of the magazine’s June issue&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In the accompanying interview&comma; she discussed her role in box office bomb Cats&comma; Harvey Weinstein’s downfall and why she is not in favour of a female James Bond&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Judi starred as Old Deuteronomy in the big-screen adaption of Lord Lloyd Webber’s musical&period; Almost every aspect of the film was savaged by critics&comma; though special attention was paid to the visual effects&comma; with each character turned into a cat-human hybrid through the use of CGI&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>And Oscar-winner Judi&comma; who has yet to see the film in full&comma; admitted to being upset at how she looked&period; <i>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The cloak I was made to wear&excl;”<&sol;i> she told Vogue&period; <i>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Like five foxes f&ast;&ast;&ast;ing on my back&period;”<&sol;i><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Judi said she hoped she would look elegant but instead resembled <i>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;a battered&comma; mangy old cat”<&sol;i>&period; She added&colon; <i>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;A great big orange bruiser&period; What’s that about&quest;”<&sol;i><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Judi also discussed the future of the James Bond franchise&comma; having first played spymaster M in 1995’s Goldeneye&period; Amid growing calls for a woman to take over as 007 after Daniel Craig&comma; Dame Judi said Bond creator Ian Fleming would not be in favour&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>And while she said she is all for female action leads&comma; in the case of a woman as Bond&comma; Dame Judi added&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Call it something else&comma; then&quest;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Judi won her best supporting actress Academy Award for 1998 period romantic drama Shakespeare In Love&comma; which was produced by Weinstein when he was at the peak of his Oscar-winning powers&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Following his rape conviction in February&comma; the disgraced mogul is now serving a 23-year prison sentence&period; Judi said of his victims&colon; <i>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;My sympathies go to anybody who went through an experience like that&period; It’s very upsetting&period;<&sol;i><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><i>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It’s good that things come to the surface and are spoken about and people feel a kind of freedom&comma; I’m sure&period;”<&sol;i><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Judi is isolating at home amid the coronavirus pandemic and said she hopes the crisis will alert the public to the plight of those who are &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;<i>completely alone”&period;<&sol;i><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>She said&colon; <i>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;What is a good thing is that it has made people aware of the predicament of others who are completely alone&period; If a great deal of kindness comes out of this&comma; then that will be a plus&period;”<&sol;i><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>And the actress dismissed any thought of retirement from a stage and screen career that has now entered its eighth decade&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Read the full feature in the June issue of Vogue&comma; available via digital download and on newsstands on Thursday May 7 www&period;vogue&period;co&period;uk&sol;news&sol;article&sol;judi-dench-vogue-interview&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68e2d30dbe43d">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; 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