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Cheryl Hines was already a pro at handling animals going into the filming of Nine Lives, out Friday.
The Curb Your Enthusiasm star plays the ex-wife to Kevin Spaceys character, Tom, who winds up trapped inside the body of a cat he buys for his daughter (Malina Weissman). Co-stars include Christopher Walken as a mysterious pet-shop owner, Jennifer Garner as Toms current wife and Toronto native Robbie Amell as Toms son.
Hines felt right at home with the star feline: Growing up in Florida, her family had as many as 17 outdoor cats at a time in their suburban backyard playhouse.
There were times when we would have to put ribbons around the kittens necks and then put them in a wagon and take them around the neighbourhood to try to get rid of the kittens, she says.
Really, looking back on it, the neighbours couldnt have loved it.
These days, Hines doesnt have cats but she does have other animals at home, two dogs, including a puppy, an emu and five tortoises.
She says her daughter and her husband, environmental activist and author Robert Kennedy Jr., are huge animal lovers.
The emu lives outdoors.
Although our bigger dog knows how to open the back door, Hines says. So he opens the sliding-glass door and then the emu likes to come inside.
Its just a circus at my house.
As for the blue-eyed furball in Nine Lives, directed by Barry Sonnenfeld of the Men in Black films, Hines reveals there were actually a few of them.
One of them his fur wasnt quite as full as the other ones, so they had a little fur collar that they would put on him. So he had to wear a weave, she says with a laugh.
I imagined it like a giant scrunchie a very soft, fluffy scrunchie.
Hines says she was attracted to the project because shes a huge fan of Sonnenfelds work.
She was also pleased to take on a project she can enjoy with her 12-year-old daughter.
When she saw this film, she said, Why am I not playing your daughter? says Hines. I said, Oh, I didnt know you were an actress. She said, I could do that, I could play that part.
I said, I think its slightly more complicated than you think it is.
She hasnt really been that excited about some of my past projects, adds Hines. Shes not a huge Curb Your Enthusiasm fan but she did like Suburgatory.
Speaking of Curb, HBO has said the show will return in 2017, six years after it last aired.
Hines, who plays the wife of a curmudgeonly Larry David, says the two have exchanged text messages about it.
I said, Am I going to be in the next season? and he said, Uh, yeah, if youre not too busy, she says. It was a very vague response but I will take that as a yes. I would love to do it.
And what does a text from Larry David look like?
Very short, says Hines.
There are no LOLs coming from Larry David. Its usually one word: Yes, No, Stop bothering me.
The biggest challenge with returning to Curb is trying to fit it in with everyones schedules, says Hines.
For her, that means trying to juggle it with her upcoming new live-action/animated sitcom Son of Zorn, in which she plays the ex-wife of Jason Sudeikiss cartoon character.
Hines says she has to act opposite actor Dan Lippert, who wears a muscle suit and stands in for Zorn.
He rehearses with us and then when it comes time to shoot, he steps out and then we have to just talk to the wall. Its weird, says Hines.
You dont get a lot of feedback, so you have to just imagine what Zorn would say and how he would react, and then I have to react to how I think he would react. Its a little trippy.
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