Taylor Swift’s Response To ‘Housemaid’ Music Use Left Director Speechless

Taylor Swift’s response to one in every of her songs being featured in Sydney Sweeney’s newest movie, “The Housemaid,” has formally been revealed, and based on director Paul Feig, it wasn’t one thing he ever anticipated to occur. The 63-year-old filmmaker opened up in regards to the shocking second throughout a latest interview on the movie’s Hollywood premiere. Feig, whose new undertaking has already been praised as an “outrageously pleasant thriller,” mirrored on the high-stakes determination to incorporate one in every of Taylor Swift’s largest hits within the film’s last moments.

On the conclusion of “The Housemaid,” audiences hear Swift’s 2017 monitor “I Did One thing Dangerous” enjoying over the tip credit, a daring selection that Feig initially assumed wouldn’t make it previous approval. “Properly, that is the factor; you wish to put a Taylor tune in your film, however she and her firm need to approve it,” Feig advised Deadline.

Feig went on to confess that he and the group behind the movie weren’t assured the tune can be cleared in any respect. “So, we had been tempting with it, and we had been like, ‘It is so excellent, however she’s by no means gonna clear this.’ Then we confirmed she and her individuals the film, and he or she authorized it. So, I suppose she likes it. Thanks, Taylor!’”

The director’s response made it clear simply how important Swift’s approval was, particularly given how fastidiously the pop celebrity oversees using her music.

Sydney Sweeney, who takes on a number one function in “The Housemaid,” additionally spoke in regards to the significance of Swift’s tune showing on the very finish of the movie.  “It is so excellent,” the Euphoria actress not too long ago advised PEOPLE.

Her co-star Amanda Seyfried added, “We noticed it earlier than it was totally confirmed.” Sweeney then defined simply how strongly the forged felt about protecting the monitor in place. “And we had been like, ‘We will not lose this!’ We had been like, ‘It’s important to hold this!’”

Swift is not any stranger to having her music featured in movies. Over time, her songs have appeared in main releases together with “The Starvation Video games,” “Fifty Shades Darker,” “Sing,” and “Letters to Juliet,” and whereas Swift’s music continues to be extremely wanted for movie soundtracks, its use has additionally not too long ago pulled the celebrity into surprising authorized drama.

As The Blast reported, Swift was briefly dragged right into a lawsuit tied to “It Ends with Us” after her tune “My Tears Ricochet” was featured within the movie’s soundtrack. The state of affairs escalated when Blake Full of life filed go well with towards director Justin Baldoni, who later tried to contain Swift within the authorized dispute, regardless of her minimal connection to the undertaking.

Swift’s spokesperson rapidly shut down any suggestion of deeper involvement, making it clear her function ended with approving the tune’s use. “Taylor Swift by no means set foot on the set of this film, she was not concerned in any casting or inventive selections, she didn’t rating the movie, she by no means noticed an edit or made any notes on the movie, she didn’t even see ‘It Ends With Us’ till weeks after its public launch and was touring across the globe throughout 2023 and 2024 headlining the largest tour in historical past,” her rep mentioned.

The spokesperson additionally criticized Baldoni’s authorized technique, stating that the subpoena filed by his group was “designed to make use of Taylor Swift’s identify to attract public curiosity by creating tabloid clickbait as an alternative of specializing in the information of the case.”