Taylor Swift's Fans Demanded A 10 Minute Version Of 'All Too Well

Photo By: BBC on Oct 31, 2022

Graham Norton - ..and doing this you know going back over your old. work has led to this wonderful thing where so all too well. Uh.. as now I know it's now; it's now a short film.

Taylor Swift - yes

Norton - so, it was a short song then it was a longer song and now it's a short film.

Taylor - shorten this plea all too well was a song that came out originally on an album called red which came out in 2012. I always loved this song it was never a single; but the fans really loved this song and I had made the mistake of saying in an interview the truth which is that it had started out as a 10 minute song with like six or seven extra verses and, and we had had to cut it down to the sort of four and a half five minute length that it ended up. My fans were would not let it go. They were like I'd be doing an interview for something else albums later and they'd be like where's the 10-minute version. Basically for the re-record I was like I am going to put out the 10 minute version. I'm just gonna.. I'm just gonna show them what it was. And you know what; I really want to make I want to tell a story that goes along with it visually that's that's more than a music video I wanna. I'd been I'd been directing my music videos for a while at this point and writing and directing them was really fun for me. I just love it. It's a very natural extension of my storytelling; so I thought I'll make I want to make a short film.. and and really do this song Justice and also create a short film that stands on its own; so I was very lucky to be able to cast Sadie sink and Dylan O'Brien to be these two young lovers and um and I'm I'm.. really really really proud of it you.

Norton - let the actors improvise those scenes or were you writing that dialogue so…

Taylor - That that was scripted out but um I always like to give people a take of ad-libbing and just say okay let's do it like it's scripted but then like let's do like you know freedom take where you get to do whatever however you would interpret this and how what you would add to it. That was I can't take full credit for that writing…

Norton - And you clearly; you clearly love this is this is this going to be a new string to your bow

Taylor - That would be such an honor. I would I would do anything to get to keep learning and keep growing in that in that world.

Bono - she takes up singing she's going to take over the world.

Eddie Redmayne - so that is like what you just said there is basically an actor's dream which is you've delivered a scene as scripted and then when the director has faith in you enough to go now one for like go play with it like it's kind of it's the dream where being directed so

Taylor - wow..

Eddie - um please cost me.

Norton - ..well listen, you can watch Taylor's short film all too well on YouTube and once again the new album Midnight that is out now

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