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

Taylor Swift’s response to certainly one of her songs being featured in Sydney Sweeney’s newest movie, “The Housemaid,” has formally been revealed, and in line with 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 venture has already been praised as an “outrageously pleasing thriller,” mirrored on the high-stakes determination to incorporate certainly one of Taylor Swift’s largest hits within the film’s ultimate moments.

On the conclusion of “The Housemaid,” audiences hear Swift’s 2017 observe “I Did One thing Unhealthy” taking part in over the tip credit, a daring alternative 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 must approve it,” Feig informed Deadline.

Feig went on to confess that he and the staff behind the movie weren’t assured the tune could be cleared in any respect. “So, we had been tempting with it, and we had been like, ‘It is so good, 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 vital Swift’s approval was, particularly given how rigorously the pop famous person oversees the usage of her music.

Sydney Sweeney, who takes on a number one position 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 good,” the Euphoria actress lately informed PEOPLE.

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

Swift isn’t any stranger to having her music featured in movies. Through the years, 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 lately pulled the famous person into sudden 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 scenario escalated when Blake Energetic 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 venture.

Swift’s spokesperson shortly shut down any suggestion of deeper involvement, making it clear her position 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 most important tour in historical past,” her rep mentioned.

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