All Too Well: Taylor Swift reveals the secret Easter eggs and themes

American singer Taylor Swift made a rare public appearance at the Tribeca Film Festival to screen her short film All Too Well and discussed the reason behind bringing the 10minute song to the big screen with filmmaker Mike Mills Cmon Cmon 20th Century WomenAccording to Variety Taylor informed the audience at the Beacon Theatre on Manhattans Upper West Side This is not a music video we approached everything differentlyThe notoriously private pop artist also revealed easter eggs in the short film detailed her hopes to direct a feature and surprised fans with a surprise performance of All Too Well during a wideranging interview Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds who were seated near the stage were among the many in the audience who excitedly sang along cheered and snapped videos of Swift during the lengthy songMills noted that the 90minute chat felt like a concert due of the enthusiastic crowds continual cheering long before Swift took out her red guitarAs he ascended the stage he said Sorry Im not Taylor Swift By the way how did Mills who is best known for indies such as Cmon Cmon end up moderating a Swift panel Shes a diehard admirer of his 2019 short film I Am Easy to Find as it turns out and texted him out of the blueSince she was a youngster Swift 32 has been writing and singing her own music She grew interested in stepping behind the camera after spending a lot of time on the sets of music videosI was always curious she said I started to venture into the edit for music videos and making changes and meddling it started with meddlingSwift claimed she felt out of her depth at times while writing and directing All Too Well The Short FilmI had this imposter syndrome in my head saying No you dont do that Other people do that who went to school to do thatMills interjected I didnt go to school to do thatAn assured Swift continued Oh Its fantastic to know that That makes me feel better Dont you feel like its an amazing exercise in trusting gut instinct There are so many decisions you have to make Saying I dont know really isnt an option most of the timeMills gently disagreed assuring Swift that directors do not have to be correct all of the timeSwift suggested Maybe thats just being a female director to which Mills replied WordSwift has been bitten by the filmmaking bug and would love to continue working in the industryIt would be so fantastic to write and direct something a feature she said I dont see it being bigger in terms of scale I loved making a film that was so intimateShe called being on set such a fulfilling experience adding Im really secret agenty about people not finding out what were making Everything was discussed using code words Im so weirdTo this day Swift has never detailed the origins of All Too Well But she told the audience I wanted to make a film about an effervescent curious young woman who ends up completely out of her depth She elaborated You know when youre walking into the ocean Its so fun the idea of going out so far your feet dont touch the ground but you can get swept away as reported by VarietyThe short film stars Sadie Sink of Stranger Things and Dylan OBrien of Teen Wolf who made a surprise cameo at Saturdays presentation Sink portrays a younger Swift while OBriens role is said to be inspired by Swifts exboyfriend Jake Gyllenhaal Gyllenhaal is 9 years older than Swift in real lifeSwift of course stayed tightlipped about that annoying detail but OBrien offered some insight on his first meeting with SwiftIll never forget you said We need this guy to be likeable even though hes going to execute some really unlikable things OBrien recalledIts such a nuanced perspective Taylor has Its not black and white Hes not a monster Hes just a narcissistic egomaniacal child he said to loud applause Though his character is much older OBrien notes hes really the childSwift offered I wanted it to feel like them falling together was inevitable and them falling apart was just as inevitable I wanted it to feel like there were forces at play and they couldnt stop from colliding or being dismantledSwift also talked on the underlying meaning of Sinks character who is a writer like Swift Swift exclaimed Its one of the narrative tricks I loved sprinkling across the short film The short is teased right from the start with a literary statement from Pablo Neruda Love is so short forgetting is so long Its intended to allude to her inner authorThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever