Ethan Hawke took a second to recount how he ended up in Taylor Swift‘s “Fortnight” music video.
The Wildcat director stopped by The Late Present With Stephen Colbert to advertise the movie, which stars his daughter, Maya Hawke. Forward of their dialog concerning the mission, the late night time host requested Hawke about his expertise engaged on the music video alongside his Useless Poets Society co-star and lifelong good friend, Josh Charles.
“Nicely, Stephen, I’m highly regarded. Folks search me out. It simply occurs,” the multihyphenate joked to Stephen Colbert, earlier than including, “We obtained this name: ‘Taylor’s releasing an album, The Tortured Poets Division. And I believe she wished to cover just a little easter egg about Useless Poets Society in it.”
He recalled strolling by way of the airport with Charles and seeing all of the younger folks carrying Swift’s Eras Tour merchandise and pondering, “We’ve obtained one thing on them.”
“We’re going to fulfill the Queen ourselves,” the Oscar nominee shared. “For Josh and I, we laughed ourselves foolish the entire day. We felt like the most important rock stars on the earth. Josh is totally different than me. I attempted to look low-key it. Josh, we obtained to Taylor’s camp. He’s like, ‘Hey, you guys obtained any sushi?’ ‘Oh, let’s get some sushi in right here proper now.’ We had the very best sushi I ever had in my life.”
Hawke defined he signed a nondisclosure settlement when he signed onto the music video, so he wasn’t capable of inform his two teenage daughters that he was going to fulfill her. However they weren’t glad after they came upon.
“The reality is after they did discover out, the look on their face was one among profound disappointment,” he admitted, noting that they felt like, “‘Don’t take note of my dad. My dad’s an fool. You have to be calling me.’ Taylor belongs to them. I can’t have that on them. So I needed to low-key it.”
The “Fortnight” music video is the primary one to come back out of Swift’s latest album, The Tortured Poets Division. The four-minute video sees Swift and Publish Malone play ex-lovers, who discover themselves repeatedly drawn to one another. Hawke and Charles seem midway by way of as two scientists, working assessments on Swift’s character earlier than Publish Malone lets her go.
Following the discharge of the album, which has damaged a number of information, the 2 musicians praised each other. In a track-by-track expertise for Amazon Music, Swift defined the which means of some songs on Tortured Poets, together with “Fortnight,” which she mentioned “displays plenty of the widespread themes” on the album.
“One in every of which being fatalism — longing, pining away, misplaced desires. I believe that it’s a really fatalistic album in that there are many very dramatic strains about life or loss of life. ‘I like you, it’s ruining my life.’ These are very hyperbolic, dramatic issues to say however it’s that sort of album,” she mentioned. “It’s a couple of traumatic, creative tragic sort of tackle love and loss. ‘Fortnight,’ I all the time imagined that it occurred on this American city the place the American dream you thought would occur to you didn’t. You ended up not with the person who you liked and now you simply need to dwell with that on a regular basis, questioning what would’ve been perhaps seeing them out. And that’s a reasonably tragic idea actually so I used to be simply writing from that perspective.”
