How Taylor Swift Cast Dylan O’Brien and Sadie Sink in Short Film ‘All Too Well’ – NBC Chicago

Taylor Swift had solely two individuals in thoughts to star in her “All Too Effectively” quick movie: Dylan O’Brien and Sadie Sink.

Within the mission, the “Teen Wolf” alum and the “Stranger Issues” actress play love pursuits in turmoil. Swift additionally seems herself and directed the angst-filled quick, which features a new, 10-minute model of the observe of the identical title that seems on her re-recorded model of her 2012 album “Crimson,” which was launched Friday, Nov. 12, amid a battle over management of the pop star’s music.

“I received their numbers and despatched them textual content messages and I had already created a whole therapy and script and like, visible sort of references of what I wished to do,” Swift advised E!’s Each day Pop about casting O’Brien and Sink. “I wished to have every part prepared, like, that is my DP, that is who we’re utilizing for set design, that is who we’re utilizing for enhancing, that is who we’re utilizing for, that is the producer. I wished them to know the entire data so they may make a selection and despatched them the track.”

Talking on the premiere of “All Too Effectively” in New York Friday, Swift continued, “They’d the track earlier than anybody else had the track and after they stated sure, I used to be so elated as a result of I didn’t have backups in thoughts.”

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And when Swift requested O’Brien to star within the mission, which he known as a “journey,” he didn’t hesitate.

“I didn’t know [Taylor] knew who I used to be in any respect,” he stated. “I’ve been a fan of hers for a very long time, I like her, much more now. She’s like one of the best particular person ever, she is so good. So yeah, it was like an computerized sure. I believe we have been form of simply hanging out on the cellphone and she or he requested me some time into it, like, , how lengthy I wished to assume or no matter and it’s OK if I wished to say no, and I used to be like, oh it’s not even a query.”

Swift advised Each day Pop that “All Too Effectively” is a “coming-of-age movie a few very particular time in somebody’s life if you find yourself between 19 and 20.”

“You have got one foot in childhood and one in maturity and also you don’t fairly know the place to face and the way fragile that makes you in that second,” she continued. “We undergo life, we get our hearts damaged, what does that give us, what does that take away. This can be a movie that asks these questions.”

Swift’s followers have lengthy suspected that the track “All Too Effectively” is about Jake Gyllenhaal, who the singer had briefly dated in 2010 when she was 20 years outdated.

Additionally on Friday, on Late Night time With Seth Meyers, host Seth Meyers advised Swift, who has typically penned cryptic lyrics about her real-life romances, “I’m wondering if there are individuals who would possibly assume that they have been those you have been singing about, if it’s simpler or far, far worse for them, 10 years later.”

She replied, “I haven’t considered their expertise, to be trustworthy.”

Swift advised E!’s Each day Pop that she “received an actual buzz” re-recording the track “All Too Effectively” as a result of its lyrics “had been written a very long time in the past.”

And sadly for followers, the singer additionally stated she doesn’t have any extra 10-minute variations of her different songs within the works.FTAY

“That’s the just one that I’ve.,” she stated. “You have got 100% of my 10-minute songs now.”

Watch the complete interviews with Taylor Swift and Dylan O’Brien on E!’s Each day Pop Monday, Nov. 15.