Director Susanna Fogel and screenwriter Michelle Ashford worried that Kristen Roupenian's unsettling #MeToo tale was unfilmable, so they decided the best course of action was to lean into the story’s more chilling elements.
“Cat Person,” the short story, follows Margot, a 20-something college student , and Robert , a mid-30s guy, as they stumble through a handful of awkward and questionable encounters — many of which happen via texting — before the would-be relationship culminates in a vitriolic series of texts sent by Robert ending in a single message: “Whore.
Recalls Roupenian: “I was living in Michigan, I was a grad student, [“Cat Person”] was my first published story, and [my agent at the time] was like, ‘Wow, we’ve got the contract fromand it’s all great. I think the terms of the film deal could be better.
Multiple tones, conflicting genres, and tricky subject matter meant that the filmmakers were particularly concerned about finding financing. “At the beginning, we were having a hard time placing this script. When we were talking to people who just do flat-out horror movies, they were like, ‘There’s a lot of talking about relationships and stuff,’” remembers Ashford.
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