{"id":82127,"date":"2025-07-23T08:45:46","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T08:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=82127"},"modified":"2025-07-23T08:45:46","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T08:45:46","slug":"alexander-skarsgard-addresses-fan-theories-that-this-taylor-swift-song-is-about-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=82127","title":{"rendered":"Alexander Skarsg\u00e5rd addresses fan theories that this Taylor Swift song is about him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_1-0\">\u201cHe\u2019s so tall, and handsome as hell\u201d \u2013 but is\u00a0<em>he<\/em>\u00a0Alexander Skarsg\u00e5rd?<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_3-0\">For years, one of the favorite Swiftie fan theories has purported that\u00a0Taylor Swift\u2019s steamy song \u201cWildest Dreams\u201d from her\u00a0<em>1989<\/em>\u00a0album was written about the Swedish actor, with whom she briefly worked on the 2014 film\u00a0<em>The Giver<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_5-0\">Dax Shepard\u00a0attempted to get Skarsg\u00e5rd to speak on the matter in\u00a0a new episode of his\u00a0<em>Armchair Expert<\/em>\u00a0podcast.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Alexander Skarsg\u00e5rd | Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard\" width=\"790\" height=\"444\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Jd7ex_EqxDw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_9-0\">Shepard told his guest that for years, he has tried convincing his two young daughters, who are big fans of Swift\u2019s music, that the song is actually about him. He recalled how he continued the bit when he took his 12-year-old daughter, Lincoln, to an Eras Tour concert in Lisbon, Portugal, and Swift played the song during the\u00a0<em>1989<\/em>\u00a0portion of her set.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_11-0\">\u201cAnd then in my f\u2014ing research today, I read that the song is about you,\u201d Shepard told Skarsg\u00e5rd, who laughed and then tried to pin it back on Shepard.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_13-0\">\u201cWait, she saw you in the audience, and she\u2019s like, \u2018I\u2019m gonna sing this song\u2019 \u2014 maybe it\u00a0<em>is<\/em>\u00a0about you,\u201d Skarsg\u00e5rd joked of Shepard, adding, \u201cI wasn\u2019t in the crowd in Lisbon, so it was clearly about you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_15-0\">Shepard then asked his guest if he, too, had \u201cthe same fear to either acknowledge or deny that that could be true because the power of the Swifties is so strong that you just don\u2019t wanna talk about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_19-0\">The\u00a0<em>Murderbot<\/em>\u00a0actor laughed and admitted, \u201cYeah.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_21-0\">Shepard then remarked that he couldn\u2019t believe he\u2019d been making that joke with his kids for six years.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_23-0\">Skarsg\u00e5rd added, \u201cIt\u2019s about Brad Pitt, guys, let\u2019s be honest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_25-0\">The actor didn\u2019t confirm or deny that the song is about him, but he did eventually joke, \u201cI\u2019m going to be honest. I wrote the lyrics of that song myself and sent it to Taylor. \u2018Taylor, here\u2019s what you should say.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"mntl-sc-block_27-0\"><figcaption id=\"mntl-figure-caption_1-0\">Taylor Swift performs \u201cLong Live\u201d during the Eras Tour.Kevin Winter\/TAS23\/Getty<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_28-0\">Jokes aside, when the topic of being a fan of Swift\u2019s music came up, Skarsg\u00e5rd sweetly said, \u201cWe\u2019re all Swifties.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_32-0\">The theory goes like this: Because the \u201cWildest Dreams\u201d music video depicts a short-lived fling between two film costars, and because the video was shot in South Africa like\u00a0<em>The Giver<\/em>, and because Swift dons a dark-haired wig in both the video and the film, the song could be about Skarsg\u00e5rd. The song itself doesn\u2019t provide many clues to the love interest\u2019s identity other than the aforementioned lyrics that he is \u201cso tall\u201d and \u201chandsome as hell,\u201d but that hasn\u2019t stopped Swifties from speculating.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_34-0\">For her part, Swift never confirms who her songs are about (if anyone), and \u201cWildest Dreams\u201d is no different.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s so tall, and handsome as hell&#8221; \u2013 but is\u00a0he\u00a0Alexander Skarsg\u00e5rd?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":82128,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-taylor-swifts"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Alexander Skarsg\u00e5rd addresses fan theories that this Taylor Swift song is about him - 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