Alexander Skarsgård is actually tall, and plenty of followers would say he’s good-looking as hell — however is he the inspiration behind “Wildest Goals” by Taylor Swift? The actor has lastly addressed it.
After years of listeners speculating that the pop star wrote the ballad about him, Skarsgård — whom Swift labored with on film The Giver greater than a decade in the past — acknowledged the rumors on an episode of Dax Shepard’s Armchair Professional posted Monday (July 21). The subject first got here up when the host shared, “My 12-year-old is totally obsessive about Taylor Swift, and I’ve been telling her for six years that the music ‘Wildest Goals’ was written about me.”
“They usually’re like, ‘No it’s not, Dad,’ and I am going, ‘Hearken to the f–king phrases,’” Shepard continued earlier than quoting a few of Swift’s lyrics. “‘He’s so tall and good-looking as hell …’ I’m like, ‘Who else may that be about?’”
Skarsgård didn’t find yourself saying instantly whether or not he thinks the 1989 fan-favorite is about him, however he did joke, “It’s about Brad Pitt, guys, let’s be trustworthy.”
“I wrote the lyrics to that music myself and despatched it to Taylor,” the True Blood alum additionally quipped. “‘Taylor, right here’s what you must say.’”
Noting that he was nervous to remark formally on the music, not desirous to invoke the wrath of Swifties both approach, Skarsgård did play together with Shepard’s assertion that the 14-time Grammy winner certainly penned “Wildest Goals” in regards to the Parenthood star. When Shepard recalled Swift performing the monitor at her Eras Tour cease in Portugal — at which the comic was current with daughter Lincoln, whom he shares with Kristen Bell — Skarsgård joked, “I wasn’t within the crowd in Lisbon … I wasn’t there, so it was clearly about you.”
“Aren’t all of us?” Skarsgård added when Shepard’s cohost, Monica Padman, famous that she’s an enormous fan of Swift. “We’re all Swifties.”
Skarsgård and Swift’s paths crossed whereas filming The Giver in 2013, a yr after which the musician dropped 1989. The album featured “Wildest Goals” as one in every of its singles, with Swift pairing the monitor — which reached No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 — with a music video depicting herself as an actress who falls in love together with her costar whereas on a movie set in Africa. The Giver additionally occurs to have been shot in Africa, and Swift sported darkish hair in each the dystopian movie and in her visible for the music.
Rumors that Skarsgård was Swift’s topic for “Wildest Goals” virtually wrote themselves from there, however the singer has by no means commented on them. Whereas they had been working collectively on The Giver, nevertheless, Skarsgård and Swift were photographed going out to dinner with costar Katie Holmes, and later, the actor gushed about jamming out with the Eras headliner on set.
“We had a piano within the lodge foyer,” he informed TIME in 2014. “Individuals would take turns and play the piano and sing. I used to be higher on the sofa with my beer, howling alongside. It was actually beautiful, really.”
Watch Skarsgård’s full interview on Armchair Professional above.