Dame Judi Dench was NOT impressed with how she looked in Cats

Dame Judi Dench has opened up about her role in Cats, likening the cloak she had to wear in the film to ‘five foxes f**king on my back’ and said she looked like a ‘battered, mangy old cat’.

The actress, 85, played Old Deuteronomy in the flick, which was labelled the worst film of 2019 at the Razzies after being panned by critics. 

Speaking to , Dame Judi recalled: ‘The cloak I was made to wear! Like five foxes f**king on my back.’

The project was shot in green screen and Judi admitted she has yet to watch the film back in full. 

However, the Oscar winner was unhappy with how her appearance turned out in the film from the pictures she has seen. 

Judi hoped she would look elegant but instead felt she resembled: ‘A battered, mangy old cat. A great big orange bruiser. What’s that about?’  

Cats is based on the 1981 musical of the same name by Andrew Lloyd Webber and featured a cast including James Corden, Taylor Swift, Idris Elba and Jennifer Hudson. 

The film was derided by critics and went on to gross $76million (£61million) on a budget of $100million (£80million).  

Talking about her ideal role, Judi revealed she wants to play someone ‘who everyone thinks is a kindly, saintly, beautified kind of person, and she’s actually killing people.’ 

Judi appears on the June cover of British Vogue and became the oldest woman to grace the front cover in the magazine’s 104-year history. 

The actress looked radiant in the head shot as she posed in a floral high-necked blouse with her silver locks styled into a textured do and a slick of make-up.

Judi, who has had a career spanning almost 60 years, said she still has no plans to retire, joking she doesn’t want the word mentioned. 

Read the full feature in the June issue of British Vogue available via digital download and on newsstands Thursday 7th May.