{"id":2269776,"date":"2026-02-06T14:58:36","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T14:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2269776"},"modified":"2026-02-06T14:58:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T14:58:36","slug":"heres-the-bizarre-reason-why-cillian-murphy-domhnall-gleeson-and-lewis-capaldi-are-all-in-taylor-swifts-new-music-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/heres-the-bizarre-reason-why-cillian-murphy-domhnall-gleeson-and-lewis-capaldi-are-all-in-taylor-swifts-new-music-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s the Bizarre Reason Why Cillian Murphy, Domhnall Gleeson and Lewis Capaldi Are All in Taylor Swift&#8217;s New Music Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Hollywood stars Cillian Murphy, Domhnall Gleeson, Greta Lee, Jodie Turner-Smith and singer Lewis Capaldi all star in Taylor Swift&#8217;s new music video for a truly unusual reason.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">The line-up were all guests alongside Swift when the global pop superstar appeared on the BBC&#8217;s Graham Norton chat show late last year, promoting her latest album The Life of a Showgirl. <\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">During the show, Gleeson&#8217;s dance moves in The Office spinoff series <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link jsx-1337145738 jsx-3925284146 underlined\" data-cy=\"styled-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/tv\/the-paper\">The Paper<\/a> were mentioned, and Gleeson himself joked that he&#8217;d love to appear one day in a Taylor Swift music video. And it was at this moment that Swift formed the idea for Gleeson to indeed star in the video for her next single, Opalite \u2014 and be joined by everyone else on the chat show that night, including Graham Norton himself. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DUatriyDtst\/embed\" height=\"710\" width=\"612\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Four months later, Opalite&#8217;s music video has released today via Spotify and Apple Music, showing Swift and Gleeson becoming a couple (who do dance!) after spraying themselves with the magical Opalite love chemical. <\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Oppenheimer star Cillian Murphy narrates an introductory commercial on the Opalite product, while Tron: Ares actresses Greta Lee and Jodie Turner-Smith cameo as a singer and fitness instructor that Swift watches on TV. Capaldi plays a photographer taking a picture of the couple who then joins them in the photos. Finally, Graham Norton plays a Opalite rep giving out free samples, who risks wrecking Gleeson and Swift&#8217;s budding romance.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Post-song, the video concludes with an explanation of what&#8217;s going on, with clips from the BBC&#8217;s Graham Norton show of the cast, acting as a credits reel. We even see the moment Swift gets the idea for the video itself, following Gleeson&#8217;s quip about his dancing.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DUavj2gDe0s\/embed\" height=\"710\" width=\"612\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">&#8220;I remember thinking I got ridiculously lucky with the group I was paired with,&#8221; Swift wrote on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DUatriyDtst\/\" class=\"link jsx-1337145738 jsx-3925284146 underlined\" data-cy=\"styled-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instagram<\/a> today, where she shared a series of behind the scenes photos. A week after the show aired, Swift says that Domhnall received an emailed script for the music video where he was playing the starring role. <\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">&#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. Like a school group project but for adults and it isn\u2019t mandatory. To my delight, everyone from the show made the effort to time travel back to the 90\u2019s with us and help with this video.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Swifties will likely spot several of her Eras Tour dancers also making cameo appearances.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">After launching both The Life of a Showgirl and her <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link jsx-1337145738 jsx-3925284146 underlined\" data-cy=\"styled-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/taylor-swift-announces-6-episode-eras-tour-disney-documentary-and-concert-film-of-final-show\">Eras Tour documentary series on Disney+<\/a> at the end of last year, 2026 had been expected to be a quieter year for the singer. Not quite yet though, it seems.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\"><em>Image source: Taylor Swift.<\/em><\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\"><em>Tom Phillips is IGN&#8217;s News Editor. You can reach Tom at tom_phillips@ign.com or find him on Bluesky <\/em><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/tomphillipseg.bsky.social\" class=\"link jsx-1337145738 jsx-3925284146 underlined\" data-cy=\"styled-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@tomphillipseg.bsky.social<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.ign.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hollywood stars Cillian Murphy, Domhnall Gleeson, Greta Lee, Jodie Turner-Smith and singer Lewis Capaldi all star in Taylor Swift&#8217;s new music video for a truly unusual reason. 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