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Taylor Swift on The Graham Norton Show (Matt Crossick\/PA)<\/p>\nTV presenter Graham Norton has said pop superstar Taylor Swift came up with the idea of featuring her fellow guests on his show in a music video while she was being interviewed on the programme.<\/p>\n
The Irish presenter of BBC One\u2019s The Graham Norton Show, featured alongside actor Cillian Murphy, singer Lewis Capaldi, About Time star Domhnall Gleeson, Past Lives actress Greta Lee, and British actress Jodie Turner-Smith, in Swift\u2019s video for Opalite, which was released on Friday.<\/p>\n
Norton explained: \u201cThe whole thing came to her in a blinding flash while she was on the sofa\u2026 and the next thing you know she\u2019s written this whole treatment.<\/p>\n
\u201cTaylor properly wrote this, it\u2019s all storyboarded and she properly directs it. Taylor is a marvellous director \u2013 I didn\u2019t think I had that (performance) in me.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Eurovision commentator said Swift\u2019s ability to remain calm on set is \u201cextraordinary\u201d.<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cIt was like a movie shoot, a massive, massive deal. Everyone was lovely on set, it was a really, really fun experience.\u201d<\/p>\n
Norton went on to say he kept a bottle of Nope-alite, a fictional spray which is advertised in the video, but it was accidentally binned by a new cleaner who mistook it for an empty bottle of real cleaning product.<\/p>\n
Taylor Swift on The Graham Norton Show (Matt Crossick\/PA)<\/p>\n
The 62-year-old said he had struggled to keep the video a secret, having worked on it in November, and added that he was \u201cin awe of myself\u201d for keeping the video a secret.<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cOn New Year\u2019s Eve I was with a gaggle of gays and I just thought this is so good, surely I can tell them, but I didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was many extras in my scene, no one joined all the dots and realised it was everyone off the Graham Norton sofa.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said a large portion of the video was shot in Croydon and other parts of London, with additional parts filmed in the US.<\/p>\n
During his time working on the video, Norton said he did not meet Swift\u2019s fiance, Kansas City Chiefs NFL player Travis Kelce, but that her mother, father and brother were on set along with the photographer who shot her engagement photos.<\/p>\n
Opalite is the latest single taken from Swift\u2019s latest studio album The Life Of A Showgirl, which was released in October last year.<\/p>\n
It comes after the singer, 36, announced her engagement to Kelce in August and revealed in My that she had regained control over her back catalogue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TV presenter Graham Norton has said pop superstar Taylor Swift came up with the idea of featuring her…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-289178","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\/289178","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=289178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}