It’s hard to believe, but there are some people on this planet who are not aware of Taylor Swift.
Seriously.
Take, for instance, The Longest Ride actor Scott Eastwood.
While doing press this week for his new romantic drama Regretting You, the 39-year-old son of legendary actor/director Clint Eastwood got razzed by co-stars Dave Franco and Mason Thames about how he got a gig playing Swift’s love interest in her 2015 “Wildest Dreams” video.
Joking that Eastwood had the most romantic credits on his filmography while chatting with the Associated Press, Franco revealed that the whole cast screened “Wildest Dreams” on set, noting that co-star Mckenna Grace had no idea her movie dad was the co-star in a video that she loves. “And she put it together in the moment: Scott’s the guy from the ‘Wildest Dreams’ video,” Franco said. “She immediately called her mom. She goes ‘Scott’s the guy.’ And we hear her mom through the phone go, ‘No!’ You have a place in a lot of people’s hearts with that video.”
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Here’s the thing.
Eastwood said he was not really familiar with the singer before he got the gig.
For real.
“I’d never met Taylor Swift before,” he said. “She called me out of the blue. She said, ‘Hey this is Taylor.’ I’m, like, ‘Taylor who?’”
Not only was he not on a first-name-only basis with Swift, but back in 2016, Eastwood told People that he almost didn’t even get a chance to play Swift’s love interest in the desert-set love story in which the pair are filming a lush, dusty Out of Africa-style movie drama. “None of my agents wanted me to do it, actually,” said Eastwood at the time. “They said, ‘Oh, we don’t want you to do that! Why would you be Taylor Swift’s boy toy?’ and I said, ‘Why the hell not?’”
It all worked out, of course, with the video racking up more than 988 million views to date for the song that peaked at No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100.
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