{"id":2269709,"date":"2026-02-06T14:19:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T14:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2269709"},"modified":"2026-02-06T14:19:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T14:19:23","slug":"taylor-swift-releases-opalite-music-video-as-she-offers-rare-insight-about-her-choice-of-star-studded-cast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/taylor-swift-releases-opalite-music-video-as-she-offers-rare-insight-about-her-choice-of-star-studded-cast\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift releases Opalite music video… as she offers rare insight about her choice of star-studded cast"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Taylor Swift<\/a> has shared the inspiration behind her star-studded music video<\/a> for Opalite.<\/p>\n

The 36-year-old Grammy<\/a> winner released the 90s-themed video, which sees Domhnall Gleeson play a lonely man opposite her lonely woman, on Spotify<\/a> and Apple Music on Friday.<\/p>\n

Singer Lewis Capaldi<\/a> also stars as a mall photographer while actresses Greta Lee and Jodie Turner-Smith<\/a> make appearances in television ads along with actor Cillian Murphy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In a new post shared on Friday, Swift revealed that the idea for the video ‘crash landed into my imagination’ during her October appearance on The Graham Norton<\/a> Show.<\/p>\n

At the time, the pop star had been promoting her latest album The Life of a Showgirl and joined Gleeson, 42, Lee, 42, Turner-Smith, 39, and Capaldi, 29, on the famous red sofa.<\/p>\n

‘When we were all talking during the broadcast, Domhnall made a light-hearted joke about wanting to be in one of my music videos,’ she explained in a lengthy Instagram post.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘He’s Irish! He was joking! Except that in that moment during the interview, I was instantly struck with an *idea*.’<\/p>\n

One week after the show, Swift sent Gleeson a script she had written for the Opalite video which would see him in the starring role.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Taylor Swift has revealed how her star-studded music video for Opalite came to be\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The new music video features a host of A-list stars, including\u00a0Domhnall Gleeson (pictured)\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

‘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,’ she continued.<\/p>\n

‘Like a school group project but for adults and it isn’t mandatory.’<\/p>\n

Swift said she was delighted that everyone from the episode – including talk show host Norton, 62, – agreed to appear in the shoot.<\/p>\n

‘I had more fun than I ever imagined,’ Swift added. ‘Made new friends, metaphors, and fashion choices.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0‘It was an absolute thrill to create this story and these characters.’<\/p>\n

Opalite is a hit song from the 2025 album The Life of a Showgirl.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Swift’s Graham Norton Show episode aired October 3, the same day her album Life of a Showgirl was released.<\/p>\n

During the show, she showed off her engagement ring and was asked about wedding plans with her husband-to-be Travis Kelce.<\/p>\n

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Singer Lewis Capaldi also makes a cameo in the video, which was released on Friday\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Swift has revealed she was inspired after her October appearance on The Graham Norton Show<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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She said that Gleeson had made a light-hearted joke about wanting to be in one of my music videos, so she decided to take action\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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‘I had more fun than I ever imagined,’ Swift said of filming the video<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

‘You’ll know. I want to do the album stuff first, and the wedding is what happens after in terms of planning,’ she told Norton.<\/p>\n

‘I think it will be fun to plan.’<\/p>\n

She also revealed that her album was a secret passion project behind the scenes of her historic Eras Tour.<\/p>\n

Asked if all the songs are inspired by her life, Swift said: ‘I am open about things but in recent years I have a different perspective and like storytelling at a little bit of a distance, so it isn’t like doing a complete autopsy of myself.’<\/p>\n

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Swift appeared on the Graham Norton Show in October to promote Life of a Showgirl\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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She invited all her fellow guests from the episode – and host Norton – to star in the music video<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Reminded that she once said she only wrote songs she can easily sing, she added: ‘I think my wheelhouse is bigger now.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘I feel I can do anything now while running in heels. I am confident to write higher choruses, jump an octave, and do falsetto stuff. I have more confidence after the tour.’<\/p>\n

Swift also revealed that her dad was particularly excited about the track\u00a0Opalite and that it is Kelce’s favorite.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘Growing opals in a lab is an interesting metaphor for making your own happiness; to rise above the trials and tribulations and be happy you did things on your terms,’ she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Taylor Swift has shared the inspiration behind her star-studded music video for Opalite. The 36-year-old Grammy winner released the 90s-themed video, which sees Domhnall Gleeson play a lonely man opposite her lonely woman, on Spotify and Apple Music on Friday. Singer Lewis Capaldi also stars as a mall photographer while actresses Greta Lee and Jodie […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2269710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[40640,25884,352679,22491,371521,360302,22821,23084,27184],"class_list":["post-2269709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-cillian-murphy","tag-dailymail","tag-graham-norton","tag-instagram","tag-jodie-turner-smith","tag-lewis-capaldi","tag-spotify","tag-taylor-swift","tag-tvshowbiz"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Taylor-Swift-releases-Opalite-music-video-as-she-offers-rare.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2269709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2269711,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269709\/revisions\/2269711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2269710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2269709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2269709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2269709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}