Taylor Swift has just attended the Toronto International Film Festival where she opened up about her short film, “All Too Well.” There, she commented on the meaning of the scarf and the fact that it took her almost a decade to tell the story “visually.”
This year, Taylor Swift premiered her first short film, the music video for “All Too Well.” She attended TIFF with Sadie Sink, who plays Her in the music video. And she also had a talk, moderated by TIFF CEO Cameron Bailey, where she opened up about her process. But also about her future dreams as a director.
Speaking on the song, she revealed it took her 10 years so she could tell the story “visually.” Sink stars alongside Dylan O’Brien, who plays Him.
“For me, the song was so tough because it was about something that at that point was very current for me,” she said. “I would have a really hard time performing it at the time. I had to really like force myself to focus on other things to try to get through it during tour. So there would there would be no world in which I could have made a visual element to that song at that time. I needed 10 years of retrospect in order to know what I would even make to to tell a version of that story visually. And I’m so grateful that I was able to do that with some crazy stroke of all these different twists of fate.”
She also talked about the significance of “the scarf” from the video, which has become a fan favorite topic of discussion.
“Basically, the scarf is a metaphor,” she confessed. “And we turned it red because because red is a very important color in this album, which is called ‘Red.’ And I think when I say it’s a metaphor, I’m just gonna stop.”
You can check out the entire conversation below, recorded by Swiftie Disha Kavaiya.
