"I don't like cats. Cats are mean. One of her husband's former cats was a pedigree-model bitch who staged a coup against her. I'd come home and there'd just be, like, poo on my pillow. It's me or the cats. But I wonnnn!"
"Buckley has been subjected to a rather surprising level of ire, both joking and dead serious. Most of the comments on the YouTube video from when it initially went up are positive, but the comments posted over the past two days have used this anecdote to pass judgment on Buckley's and Mescal's overall character."
Jessie Buckley, an Oscar frontrunner for Best Actress, became the subject of viral controversy following a November interview on the Happy Sad Confused podcast. During the discussion, Buckley explained her dislike of cats by recounting how her husband's two cats behaved negatively toward her when they began dating, including leaving feces on her pillow. She stated she gave her husband an ultimatum: choose between her or the cats. Her husband chose to give away the cats. Co-star Paul Mescal agreed with her cat criticism. The resurfaced interview sparked significant online backlash, with commenters criticizing both Buckley and Mescal's character, calling them narcissistic and insufferable, despite the original interview receiving mostly positive responses.
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