Taylor Swift Surprises Fans With ‘All Too Well’ Stars Sadie Sink And Dylan O’Brien During Tribeca Festival, Talks ‘Secret-Agenty’ Directing Skills

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Leave it to Taylor Swift to please fans with a few unexpected twists. During the singer’s “Tribeca Talks With Taylor Swift” event at Tribeca Festival in New York, Swift brought out surprise guests and even performed during the “talk-only” scheduled event.

After the screening of her short film music video “All To Well”, based on the 10-minute version of the song of the same name from Swift’s re-recorderd version of her album Red, the singer had a half-hour conversation about filmmaking with writer-director Mike Mills.

She described her directing tactics of “intentionally withholding information from cast and crew” as “secret-agent-y,” quoting late director John Cassavetes. READ MORE: Taylor Swift Gets Her Cap And Gown On For New York University Commencement Swift gave Mills a shoutout for directing the longform video for “I Am Easy to Find” by The National, because it “really inspired” her to create “All Too Well” in ways she “can’t possibly overstate.” She added that her and Mills are “both members of the Aaron Dessner cinematic universe!” acknowledging the rock band’s guitarist, Dessner, whose been a recent key collaborator with Swift.

The “Begin Again” singer went on to explain how her entry into the world of directing stemmed from the fact that “I was not able to own my work.” Although she spared the details, Swift was referring to her inability to have a say in how her past recordings were marketed or packaged after Scooter Braun’s purchase and 2020 resale of Big Machine Label Group, which controlled most of her master recordings. “It was a very hard time for me,” Swift said of losing control over her work. “A lot of my hardest moments and moments of extreme grief or loss were galvanized into what my life looks