{"id":274468,"date":"2026-02-09T00:00:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T00:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/274468\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T00:00:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T00:00:16","slug":"moment-that-inspired-taylor-swifts-latest-music-video-revealed-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/274468\/","title":{"rendered":"Moment that inspired Taylor Swift\u2019s latest music video revealed | Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the moment from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/the-graham-norton-show\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Graham Norton Show<\/a> that inspired <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/taylor-swift\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Taylor Swift<\/a>\u2019s latest music video.<\/p>\n<p>In October, the singer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/tv\/culture\/taylor-swift-graham-norton-wedding-travis-kelce-video-b2839265.html\" title=\"Taylor Swift discusses Travis Kelce wedding on Graham Norton Show\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">appeared on the BBC talk show<\/a> to promote her album The Life Of The Showgirl. She was joined on the sofa by Domhnall Gleeson, Lewis Capaldi, Cillian Murphy, Greta Lee and Jodie Turner-Smith.<\/p>\n<p>During the chat, Gleeson joked about wanting to star in a Swift music video, at which the singer\u2019s face lit up. A week later, she had written a script for \u201cOpalite\u201d, with Gleeson in the starring role and sent it to the actor. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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,\u201d she said on Friday (6 February) as she released the music video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is the moment from The Graham Norton Show that inspired Taylor Swift\u2019s latest music video. In October,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-274468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}