Original Air Date: May 26, 2022

Directed by: Gwyneth Horder-Payton

Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains spoilers for this episode!

Synopsis: In this episode of the series which re-enacts the making of The Godfather, producer Ruddy (Miles Teller) has to convince Paramount head Bluhdorn (Burn Gorman) that Coppola (Dan Fogler) and Pacino (Anthony Ippolito) are worth keeping after Bluhdorn is shown raw daily footage.

Cat Burglar (Scene Stealer): The filming of the movie is now well underway and at last we get to the office scene in which the Don is taking requests for favors on his daughter’s wedding day. As the crew prepares the scene, Marlon Brando (Justin Chambers) is sitting in costume in the chair at the desk playing with a tabby cat as a man checks the lighting.

Ruddy approaches and asks what’s with the cat and have they rewritten the script? Coppola confirms there’s no cat in the scene.

“Is it Brando’s cat?” Ruddy asks. “No, a stray cat from the alley behind the studio,” Ruddy’s assistant Bettye (Juno Temple) explains.

Coppola and Ruddy both agree they like it. Bettye laughs and says it’s just that neither of them want to be the one to tell Brando he can’t have the cat.

The sound engineer says there is a problem and lets Coppola listen to his headphones. The sound of purring is very loud. “We’ll fix it in post,” Coppola says. The cat is commented upon later in the episode when the rough dailies are viewed. One person says the cat was the best thing in the scene and another states that all you could hear was purring.

As with the rest of the casting in this show the producers did a remarkable job finding a cat who looks very much like the cat from the original movie!

Final Mewsings: If only all cats in movies were so happy they would flood the sound engineer’s ears with purrs!

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