Francesca Hayward Reveals Taylor Swift Gave Her 'Surreal' Performance of 'Cats' Song 'Beautiful Ghosts'!

Francesca Hayward made her debut appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live last night (December 5) and dished about one of the most surreal days of her life being with Taylor Swift!

The 27-year-old Royal Ballet principal dancer is making her feature film debut in the film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber‘s musical, Cats, which also stars Taylor.

Taylor wrote the new song “Beautiful Ghosts” for the movie version of Cats with Andrew for Francesca‘s character Victoria.

“I think probably one of the most surreal days of my life so far was when Taylor asked to meet me. She had written the lyrics for Andrew [Lloyd Webber]‘s music and she called me into a room and basically gave me a private concert of the song for the first time,” Francesca Hayward told Kimmel. “Just me, her and a pianist and Tom Hooper, the director. She sang the whole song just to me in a room. It was surreal.”

Francesca also talked about being from Kenya and England, being a Principal Dancer for the Royal Ballet, and having a cat behavioral coach for the film.