Shawn Levy, Taylor Swift, Stephen Spielberg. Getty Images (3)
Shawn Levy thinks Taylor Swift’s artistic imaginative and prescient is paying homage to one other very iconic director.
“[Steven] Spielberg was on the set of a movie he produced that I directed, called Real Steel, and I said to him, ‘How do you know it’s the right shot?’” Levy, 55, recalled to Entertainment Weekly in an interview printed on Thursday, October 12. “His answer was, ‘The way you see it, that makes it right.’ I feel like that’s something Taylor Swift has figured out really well because that’s about trusting your instinct.”
Levy — who appeared alongside Sadie Sink and Dylan O’Brien in Swift’s directorial debut, All Too Well: The Short Film — known as the pop star, 33, a “generational voice and creative force” whose impression is just matched by Beyoncé. The filmmaker famous that it’s “the depth” of Swift’s imaginative and prescient that makes her so distinctive.
“She wants a creative piece to be, whether it’s a lyric, a melody, a bridge, a concert tour, a video, it’s profound,” he defined. “It’s profoundly vivid, and she has the strength of her convictions,” Levy continues, happening to invoke a key Spielberg philosophy that reminds him of Swift’s artistry.”
Taylor Swift’s ‘All Too Well’ Short Film Easter Eggs
Walk down reminiscence lane! Taylor Swift seemingly hinted at her relationship with ex-boyfriend Jake Gyllenhaal in her All Too Well quick movie. The practically 15-minute video, written and directed by the 31-year-old Grammy winner, dropped on Friday, November 12, in tandem with the discharge of Red (Taylor’s Version). Sadie Sink and Dylan O’Brien starred in […]
While Levy, who’s an government producer and director for Stranger Things and the upcoming Deadpool 3, mentioned that Swift has “not consulted” him on any of her upcoming directing tasks, he believes she has the making of 1 “hell of a director” if it’s a craft she chooses to proceed.
It was introduced by Searchlight Pictures in December 2022 that Swift will direct her first feature-length movie from a screenplay she wrote herself. The mission got here after she gained two MTV VMAs Best Director awards — for her “All Too Well” and “The Man” music movies — changing into the primary artist in historical past to achieve this.
Swift’s All Too Well: Short Film, which dropped in November 2021, was an almost 15-minute video written and directed by the Grammy winner in tandem with the discharge of Red (Taylor’s Version). (Swift is rerecording her first six albums after her masters had been purchased and bought by Scooter Braun in June 2019.) Sink, 20, and O’Brien, 32, starred within the mission as “Her” and “Him.” (Levy, in the meantime, portrayed Sink’s father.)
The quick featured the 10-minute model of Swift’s hit “All Too Well,” which is extensively rumored to have been about Swift’s relationship with ex-boyfriend Jake Gyllenhaal. While the monitor was by no means launched as a single throughout Red’s preliminary launch in 2012, it turned a fan favourite Swift felt needs to be honored.
“This is all about what the fans have turned this song into,” she advised the Associated Press in November 2022. “It was never a single, never had a video, it never had a visual element to it, but they pretty much created their own imaginary cinematic universe for it, so this is just me following through on what they started and what they told me they wanted.”
The singer additionally praised the movie’s stars, Sink and O’Brien, for what they introduced to the story. “They were so prepared, they were so committed,” she advised Extra on the time. “You couldn’t really keep your eyes off of them on the monitors, so obviously you try to prepare as much as you can before you get there, but on the day, that electricity is either there or it’s not, and the onscreen chemistry between those two — they’re just so talented.”
Swift first teased that she had greater plans for the music when she introduced the discharge of Red (Taylor’s Version) in June 2021.
Everything to Know About the Rerelease of Taylor Swift’s ‘Red’
Whether you’re feeling 22 or not, Taylor Swift’s new spin on her outdated album Red is certain to make followers really feel nostalgic — and that’s the purpose. The “Love Story” singer was impressed to rerecord her earlier six albums after Scooter Braun bought the masters to them in 2019. Her hope was that the up to date […]
“Musically and lyrically, Red resembled a heartbroken person. It was all over the place, a fractured mosaic of feelings that somehow all fit together in the end,” the singer wrote through Instagram. “Happy, free, confused, lonely, devastated, euphoric, wild, and tortured by memories past. Like trying on pieces of a new life, I went into the studio and experimented with different sounds and collaborators.”
Levy, for his half, solely had a quick cameo within the All Too Well: The Short Film — however he has seemingly grow to be nearer to Swift by means of their mutual pals Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively. The foursome had been all in attendance on the Kansas City Chiefs vs. New York Jets in New Jersey earlier this month. The group was in attendance to help Chiefs tight finish Travis Kelce, whom Swift has been romantically linked to since September.
