Lewis Capaldi<\/a>.<\/p>\nThe whimsical, fantastical video, produced with a retro 90s aesthetic, is written and directed by Swift. Her lonely character befriends a pet rock, while Gleeson\u2019s equally lonely character has a similar friendship with a cactus, before a magical substance \u2013 the spray-on Opalite \u2013 brings the two together. Norton appears as a salesman hawking a reverse serum, Nope-alite, while Turner-Smith plays a fitness instructor, and Lee mimes along to Swift\u2019s song as a fictional singer-songwriter on MTV. Capaldi plays a mall photographer, while the final guest that week, Cillian Murphy, does not act in the video but appears as a billboard image and provides a voiceover.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe thrill of a lifetime and the hardest secret I\u2019ve ever had to keep!! Thank you thank you,\u201d Norton wrote on Instagram.<\/p>\n
Introducing the video, Swift called Norton \u201cinsanely charismatic and lovable\u201d and said of the October show: \u201cI remember thinking I got ridiculously lucky with the group I was paired with \u2026 I was instantly struck with an *idea*.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd so a week later [Gleeson] received an email script I\u2019d written for the Opalite video, where he was playing the starring role. I had this thought that it would be wild if all of our fellow guests on the Graham Norton show that night, including Graham himself, could be a part of it too. Like a school group project but for adults and it isn\u2019t mandatory. To my delight, everyone from the show made the effort to time travel back to the 90\u2019s with us and help with this video.\u201d<\/p>\n
Swift is a relatively regular guest on Norton\u2019s long-running BBC chatshow, appearing five times since 2013, sitting alongside the likes of Bono and John Cleese. Her casting of Norton is a demonstration of his growing transatlantic cachet: clips from his show frequently go viral in the US, and he has himself appeared on Seth Meyers\u2019 US talkshow.<\/p>\n
Opalite had already reached as high as No 2 in the UK charts when it was first released, but it is likely to shoot up again in next week\u2019s chart from its current position of No 15.<\/p>\n
The video is available on Spotify and Apple Music, and will appear on YouTube on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Graham Norton\u2019s chatshow has long been an object of fascination for American stars, wowed by its combined star…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-285380","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}