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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/movies/caught-stealing-darren-aronofsky-cat.html?campaign_id=9&emc=edit_nn_20250830&instance_id=161573&nl=the-morning®i_id=122976029&segment_id=204921&user_id=b25c5730c89e0c73f75709d8f1254337
A cat named Tonic stars in Darren Aronofsky's new crime drama, "Caught Stealing." Tonic's performance impressed the director and crew, despite initial concerns about working with a feline actor.
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- A cat named Tonic stars in Darren Aronofsky's new crime drama, "Caught Stealing." Tonic's performance impressed the director and crew, despite initial concerns about working with a feline actor.
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This Star Has the Moxie and Acting Chops for a Crime Drama. He’s Also a Cat. By Esther Zuckerman Aug. 29, 2025 Darren Aronofsky is not a cat person. “I hate cats,” he said in a video call, showing off his socks emblazoned with the face of his dog. “I’m a dog person.” But the director had to put aside his biases for his new crime drama, “Caught Stealing,” which features a pivotal feline role. In the gritty Lower East Side of 1990s New York, a cat named Tonic plays Bud, the pet of a British punk, Russ (Matt Smith). Russ asks his neighbor, the local bartender and former baseball star Hank (Austin Butler), to watch Bud while he’s out of town, inadvertently making Hank the target of gangsters across the city who have it out for Russ. As Hank falls deeper and deeper into the violent mess that Russ created — getting brutally beaten up along the way — Bud remains central to the action. His skeptical gazes punctuate scenes and his presence endears the audience to Hank, who goes out of his...
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Simplified: Darren Aronofsky is not a cat person
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Simplified: Tonic plays Bud in 1990s New York Lower East Side
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Simplified: Russ asks Hank to watch Bud making Hank a target
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Simplified: Tonic has quite a résumé
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Simplified: Millett adopted Tonic for 2019 Pet Sematary
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Simplified: Tonic appeared in Thanksgiving 2023
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Tonic is now about 8.1.000Simplified: Tonic is about 8 years old
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Simplified: Millett trained five of six Tonic doubles including Swivel
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Simplified: Swivel loved to be held
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Simplified: Some moments are digitally manipulated due to doubles or safety
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Simplified: Tonic wears a leather-studded necklace unseen due to his mane
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Simplified: Aronofsky would work with Tonic again over human actors