Francesca Hayward’s Pas de Chat
Despite already being a star in the ballet world, Francesca Hayward hasn’t had to deal with the paparazzi. But that’s recently changed. “Getting out of the car they told me there’d be paparazzi, which I laughed about for five minutes. I thought everyone was joking,” says Hayward, sitting in a café across the street from Bryant Park in early December. She’d just flown into town from Los Angeles for an appearance on “Jimmy Kimmel.” “I’d just gotten off the plane, so I borrowed my agent’s sunglasses,” she continues. “And thank god, because they were actually out there. So I have my first paparazzi pictures. Maybe my last as well, but it’s just funny to have them.” Hayward is the star cat of “Cats,” the much buzzed about (with anywhere from cautious optimism to extreme trepidation) adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Weber’s long-running musical. It’s been a whirlwind for the film’s lead, whose primary vocation is as a principal dancer for the Royal Ballet in London. The 27-year-old dancer took a half-year hiatus for filming, which in addition to dancing required her to act and sing an original song, which was recorded live as they were actually shooting. (“The singing thing was terrifying atFollow WWD on Twitter or become a fan on Facebook.
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