Ethan Hawke It took him a while to explain how he ended up there Taylor Swift'Fortnight' music video.
The Wild cat director came by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to promote the film, which stars his daughter Maya Hawke. Before their conversation about the project, the late night host asked Hawke about his experience working on the music video alongside him Association for Dead Poets co-star and lifelong friend, Josh Charles.
“Well, Stephen, I'm very popular. People seek me out. It just happens,” the multi-word joked to Stephen Colbert, before adding, “We got this call: 'Taylor is putting out an album, The department of tortured poets. And I think she wanted to hide a little Easter egg Association for Dead Poets in the.”
He remembered walking through the airport with Charles and seeing all the young people wearing Swift's Eras Tour merchandise and thinking, “We have something on them.”
“We're going to meet the queen herself,” the Oscar nominee said. “For Josh and I, we made fools of ourselves all day. We felt like the biggest rock stars in the world. Josh is different from me. I tried to look calm. Josh, we've arrived at Taylor's camp. He says, “Hey, do you have sushi?” “Oh, let's get some sushi here right away.” We had the best sushi I've ever had in my life.”
Hawke explained that he signed a non-disclosure agreement when he signed up for the music video so he couldn't tell his two teenage daughters that he was going to meet her. But they weren't happy when they found out.
“The truth is, when they found out, the look on their faces was one of deep disappointment,” he admitted, noting that they thought, “Don't mind my dad. My father is an idiot. You should call me.” Taylor is theirs. I can't have that from them. So I had to take it easy.”
The Music video 'Fortnight' is the first of Swift's latest album, The department of tortured poets. In the four-minute video, Swift and Post Malone play ex-lovers, who are constantly attracted to each other. Hawke and Charles appear halfway through as two scientists conducting tests on Swift's character before Post Malone lets her go.
After the release of the album, which has several records brokenthe two musicians praised each other. In a track-by-track experience for Amazon Music, Swift laid out the meaning of some songs Martyred poetsincluding “Fortnight,” which she said “exhibits many of the common themes on the album.”
'One of them is fatalism: longing, wasting away, lost dreams. I think it's a very fatalistic album, because it has a lot of dramatic lines about life and death. “I love you, it's ruining my life.” These are very hyperbolic, dramatic things to say, but it's that kind of album,” she said. “It's about a traumatic, artistic-tragic view of love and loss. “Fifteen Days,” I always imagined it taking place in this American city where the American dream that you thought would happen didn't happen. You didn't end up with the person you loved and now you have to live with that every day, wondering what it would have been like to let him or her out. And that's actually a pretty tragic concept, so I just wrote from that perspective.