Ethan Hawke is aware of his place in historical past — with Swifties, a minimum of.
In an interview launched Wednesday, Might 15, the 53-year-old actor spoke with Sirius XM’s The Jess Cagle Present about making a shock cameo in Taylor Swift’s “Fortnight” video alongside his Useless Poets Society costar, Josh Charles, 52.
“I feel there’s some sort of psychic connection she was making an attempt to offer for the followers about The Tortured Poets Division and the Useless Poets Society,” he mentioned. “She was sort of performing some little homage, and so she requested a few us outdated canine to return out and make our presence recognized.”
“It’s so wonderful as a result of it’s a very completely different realm for you,” host Julia Cunningham mentioned, including that inside “the entire Swiftie, bigger tradition — there’s an entire Swiftipedia — it lists you as, you understand, seems in “Fortnight’ video, as if that’s the one factor you’ve ever finished.”
A number of of Taylor Swift’s well-known mates and followers have proven as much as shake it off on the singer’s much-anticipated The Eras Tour. The celebs of Swift’s “Bejeweled” music video — Este Haim, Danielle Haim, Alana Haim and Laura Dern — have been amongst 1000’s of followers in attendance on the tour’s opening night time in Glendale, Arizona’s […]
“It’s humorous you say that as a result of I believed, as I used to be flying on the market, I believed, you understand, I’ve labored so exhausting in my life, and I’ve a sense this shall be in my obituary,” Hawke confessed, conceding that he “would possibly get a couple of different mentions.”
Final month, Swift unveiled her moody “Fortnight” clip in tandem together with her newest album, The Tortured Poets Division. Hawke and Charles play scientists experimenting on Swift’s character after a failed relationship. Publish Malone, who collaborated with Swift on the track, additionally makes an look.
Swift, who wrote and directed the music video, praised the Useless Poets actors on Instagram, writing, “I’m nonetheless laughing from attending to work with the best guys on earth, @ethanhawke and @mrjoshcharles (tortured poets, meet your colleagues from down the corridor, the lifeless poets).”
Final week on The Late Present With Stephen Colbert, Hawke mentioned that he had signed an NDA forward of the video’s launch and so he couldn’t inform his youngsters about his top-secret function. He additionally recalled strolling by way of an airport with Charles, his buddy of “35 years and [watching] all of the younger individuals with their Eras [Tour] sweatshirts on and their Taylor Swift issues, and we bought one thing on them. We’re going to fulfill the queen ourselves.”
“We laughed ourselves foolish the entire day,” he mentioned. “We felt like the largest rock stars on the planet.”
Kevin Mazur/TAS24/Getty Photos for TAS Rights Administration “The man on the Chiefs” is getting extra particular nods on The Eras Tour. Taylor Swift kicked off the European leg of The Eras Tour in Paris on Might 9. The efficiency marked the primary time she included songs from her newest album, The Tortured Poets Division, into […]
Hawke, who has starred in a protracted string of in style and acclaimed movies from Earlier than Sundown to Coaching Day, is presently selling Wildcat, a drama he directed that includes his daughter, Maya Hawke.
Swift, in the meantime, kicked off the European leg of her Eras Tour earlier this month with 4 reveals in France, shocking followers with a brand new setlist, new costumes and songs from Tortured Poets, together with “Fortnight.”