{"id":2116015,"date":"2025-10-26T05:45:45","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T05:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2116015"},"modified":"2025-10-26T05:45:45","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T05:45:45","slug":"paw-stars-four-legged-actors-steal-the-show-from-humans-in-new-movies-and-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/paw-stars-four-legged-actors-steal-the-show-from-humans-in-new-movies-and-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Paw stars: Four-legged actors steal the show from humans in new movies and series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">SINGAPORE \u2013 Remember Krypto, Dogpool and Crookshanks? These furry characters from Deadpool &amp; Wolverine (2024), Superman (2025) and the Harry Potter films (2001 to 2011) are now pop culture icons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">There is a saying in show business to never work with animals, but sometimes the greatest actors can come on four legs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Taking on roles in genres such as romance, crime and horror, these dogs, and cat, prove they not only can handle diverse roles, but they also steal the show from their human counterparts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"flex flex-col items-start relative w-fit\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cassette.sphdigital.com.sg\/image\/straitstimes\/8ff9a27e0b6e115ddee16b07868f89cf1153424a2b1c33c435c4a58f7799a9bc\" alt=\"\" class=\"aspect-landscape flex items-start shrink-0 object-cover landscape article-landscape mobile:w-screen tablet:w-auto\" data-testid=\"image-test-id\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/div>\n<p class=\"font-eyebrow-baseline-regular text-secondary\" data-testid=\"inline-media-caption-test-id\">Japanese drama Love Is For Dogs features a mame shiba inu (left) and a miniature goldendoodle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-eyebrow-baseline-regular text-placeholder\" data-testid=\"inline-media-credit-test-id\">PHOTO: HATSUKOI_DOGS\/INSTAGRAM<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Puppy love is given new meaning in Japanese drama Love Is For The Dogs, which revolves around the question: What happens when your dog falls in love with another dog?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">That is what happens to top divorce lawyer Aiko (Kaya Kiyohara). While taking Sakura for a walk, Aiko\u2019s mame shiba inu meets Shogun, a miniature goldendoodle, and sparks fly between both pooches immediately.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Shogun\u2019s owner, Kai (Ryo Narita), a vet who runs a 24-hour animal hospital, jokes that it is love at first sight for their pets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Aiko, who is a romance sceptic, brushes it off as ridiculous and turns down a suggested play date. However, when another chance encounter brings Sakura and Shogun together again, Aiko cannot help but wonder if there is really something between the dogs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">What Kai and Aiko do not realise is that their pets are playing matchmakers for their lonely, single pawrents.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The sweet 10-episode series streaming on HBO Max also stars South Korean actor Na In-woo as Woo Seo-ha, a love rival who seems to have a special connection with Shogun. But the real stars are the two adorable canines.<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"responsive-iframe-base instagram instagram-embed\" title=\"instagram embed\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DLpEkMkxoe4\/embed\/captioned\/?omitscript=true\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"accelerometer;falseclipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share;\" loading=\"eager\" data-testid=\"responsiveIframe\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Playing on the belief that dogs can sense the supernatural, Good Boy is an experimental project from first-time feature film-maker Ben Leonberg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Told from the perspective of canine hero Indy, a Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever of the same name, the story follows Indy and his human companion Todd (Shane Jensen) as they relocate from the city to a long-vacant rural family home.<\/p>\n<div class=\"flex flex-col items-start relative w-fit\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cassette.sphdigital.com.sg\/image\/straitstimes\/0d553c82c40a27615525b7cc2a186d34c2fe3afec0555441f93c42d7eb492a6a\" alt=\"\" class=\"aspect-landscape flex items-start shrink-0 object-cover landscape article-landscape mobile:w-screen tablet:w-auto\" data-testid=\"image-test-id\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/div>\n<p class=\"font-eyebrow-baseline-regular text-secondary\" data-testid=\"inline-media-caption-test-id\">Good Boy is a horror that is told from the point of view of Indy, a Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-eyebrow-baseline-regular text-placeholder\" data-testid=\"inline-media-credit-test-id\">PHOTO: SHAW<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Indy is all ready for a new adventure, but when they arrive at the creepy-looking house, Indy is instantly wary of their new abode. He starts to hear a distant whining of a dog and senses an unwelcome presence in the house.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Sure enough, a malevolent being starts to haunt Todd and it is up to the loyal hound to protect his master against the dark spirit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Filmed over 400 days, a considerably long shoot, Good Boy had its premiere at the SXSW Film Festival in Texas in March 2025 to critical acclaim, especially of Indy\u2019s ability to emote with his eyes. <\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"responsive-iframe-base instagram instagram-embed\" title=\"instagram embed\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DG9lyessmE0\/embed\/captioned\/?omitscript=true\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"accelerometer;falseclipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share;\" loading=\"eager\" data-testid=\"responsiveIframe\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Black comedy Caught Stealing features an all-star cast that includes Austin Butler, Zoe Kravitz, Regina King, Matt Smith, Liev Schreiber, Vincent D\u2019Onofrio and rapper Bad Bunny. It is helmed by the Oscar-nominated Darren Aronofsky.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Yet all these talented human stars are no match for a fluffy Siberian Forest Cat named Tonic, who upstages everyone as Bud the cat.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"flex flex-col items-start relative w-fit\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cassette.sphdigital.com.sg\/image\/straitstimes\/854eaeba0da493540c7eb5dd59cc698d767f110f7e4fe02d5f292dbbc0ec1279\" alt=\"\" class=\"aspect-landscape flex items-start shrink-0 object-cover landscape article-landscape mobile:w-screen tablet:w-auto\" data-testid=\"image-test-id\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/div>\n<p class=\"font-eyebrow-baseline-regular text-secondary\" data-testid=\"inline-media-caption-test-id\">Caught Stealing stars Austin Butler and Tonic (right) the Siberian Forest Cat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-eyebrow-baseline-regular text-placeholder\" data-testid=\"inline-media-credit-test-id\">PHOTO: CAUGHTSTEALINGMOVIE\/INSTAGRAM<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Set in 1990s New York, Russ (Smith) asks his neighbour, bartender Hank (Butler), to cat-sit Bud as he has to return to London to visit his ailing father.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Despite Hank\u2019s protests and declaration that he is a \u201cdog person\u201d, he not only ends up looking after Bud, but also finds himself caught in the middle of a motley crew of gangsters. He spends most of the movie running away from the bad guys, carrying along with him a big duffel bag of cash with Bud in it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Aronofsky initially kept the cat casting call within the US, but the search eventually expanded. That was how the director found Tonic, who is based in Canada with his trainer Melissa Millett.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">A rescue cat, Tonic is no stranger to films, having played the undead Church in the 2019 adaptation of Stephen King\u2019s Pet Sematary. The feline star also appeared in Eli Roth\u2019s horror flick Thanksgiving (2023).<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"responsive-iframe-base instagram instagram-embed\" title=\"instagram embed\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DOEandZD5jT\/embed\/captioned\/?omitscript=true\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"accelerometer;falseclipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share;\" loading=\"eager\" data-testid=\"responsiveIframe\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"tags-test-id\">\n<p><span class=\"font-button-md-semibold\">Movies<\/span><span class=\"font-button-md-semibold\">TV series<\/span><span class=\"font-button-md-semibold\">Pets<\/span><span class=\"font-button-md-semibold\">Animals<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.straitstimes.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE \u2013 Remember Krypto, Dogpool and Crookshanks? 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