Audiences coming out of the horror prequel "A Quiet Place: Day One" have been singing the praises (though, in a silent fashion) of Lupita Nyong-o’s cat, Frodo. Most of the Quiet Place: Day One reviews have gone out of the way to credit the phenomenal feline performance, accepting the fact that dogs would be too loud and reactionary in the "Quiet Place" universe to survive very long. Not Frodo. This cat quickly figures out how to get by in the creature-laden world. And that’s because it wasn’t just one cat on the set of "A Quiet Place: Day One." It was two.
The film’s director, Michael Sarnoski, stopped by CinemaBlend’s official podcast ReelBlend to dig into massive spoilers for the brand new horror movie. And while it seems like we spent a LOT of time talking about the cat performance… well, that’s because the cat is a significant part of "A Quiet Place: Day One," and a big reason – for me – the movie works as well as it does. It was during this conversation that Sarnoski explained that he chose two cats to play Frodo, and that he knew very early on that he did not want to have to rely on a CG cat, capturing as much of the cat in camera as he could.
