Hollywood stars Cillian Murphy, Domhnall Gleeson, Greta Lee, Jodie Turner-Smith and singer Lewis Capaldi all star in Taylor Swift’s new music video for a truly unusual reason.
The line-up were all guests alongside Swift when the global pop superstar appeared on the BBC’s Graham Norton chat show late last year, promoting her latest album The Life of a Showgirl.
During the show, Gleeson’s dance moves in The Office spinoff series The Paper were mentioned, and Gleeson himself joked that he’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 — and be joined by everyone else on the chat show that night, including Graham Norton himself.
Four months later, Opalite’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.
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’s budding romance.
Post-song, the video concludes with an explanation of what’s going on, with clips from the BBC’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’s quip about his dancing.
“I remember thinking I got ridiculously lucky with the group I was paired with,” Swift wrote on Instagram 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.
“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’t mandatory. To my delight, everyone from the show made the effort to time travel back to the 90’s with us and help with this video.”
Swifties will likely spot several of her Eras Tour dancers also making cameo appearances.
After launching both The Life of a Showgirl and her Eras Tour documentary series on Disney+ at the end of last year, 2026 had been expected to be a quieter year for the singer. Not quite yet though, it seems.
Image source: Taylor Swift.
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