Sawyer

Sawyer is the deuteragonist of the 1997 film Cats Don't Dance.

She is the love interest and eventual girlfirend of Danny.

She was voiced by Jasmine Guy with the late Natalie Cole doing her singing.

Biography

She was revealed to be a dancer with a beautiful singing voice, but had her dreams broken and was hired as a secretary for Farley Wink instead.

Because of those events, she became cynical and pessimistic about dancing.

At first she runs into Danny, but he accidentally causes her problems such as taking her taxi, bumping into the roof's antenna making her spill her coffee on her suit and making the feather on her hat burn, and she splashes into a fountain, eventually ending up soaking wet. When she arrives at the office, she meets Danny and gets forced into playing a role in the ark picture and with Danny as her partner, much to her dismay. She then gets her tail slammed by the door by Danny accidentally.

When they were filming the movie, their role was just to sat "Meow", and Sawyer warns Danny not to take the lead role, but Danny doesn't listen, which leads to trouble when Danny meets Max, Darla Dimple's assistant and gets squashed to the ground.

After the shooting, Sawyer volunteers to talk to Danny about what happened. Danny asks did he hit a sour note, but then Sawyer tells him that the people don't care and asks him why is he determined to make a fool of himself. Danny said that he wants to do the thing people love and Sawyer tells him that it's not that simple. Danny tells her it is in Kokomo and Sawyer tells him he would have stayed and leaves.

Danny and his penguin friend Pudge prepare an all-animal show after the premiere of "Lil' Ark Angel", Sawyer and Tillie grabbed the others and snuck behind the stage and they all perform a musical number "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" and Darla Dimple tries to sabotage them on stage, but fails. She yells angrily at Danny that she flooded the stage, but accidentally reveals her actions to the audience and gets fired. In the end, Danny and Sawyer almost kiss, but they end up kissing Flanigan's cheeks, due to their disgust.