Taylor Swift is to take her first lead acting role in the film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats, directed by Tom Hooper.
Joining Swift in Cats will be James Corden, Ian McKellen and Jennifer Hudson, who won a best supporting actress Oscar for her part in another film based on a stage musical, Dreamgirls.
Swift, 28, has one significant screen credit to her name: she voiced the environmentalist Audrey in the 2012 animation The Lorax.
Tom Hooper’s 2012 film version of Les Misérables took more than $441m worldwide and won three Academy Awards, including best supporting actress for Anne Hathaway.