Taylor Swift has spent the past year and a half showing people that everything she touches turns to gold in the music industry. I’ve lost count of how many wins she’s stacked up just in 2020 and 2021, and that’s not even counting all of the wins she’s had before. Hitting pause on touring because of the pandemic, and having that time to reset her career has all been great for Tay. And she’s ready to make another attempt to conquer Hollywood! Taylor has already appeared in a handful of films, but now she’s joining the cast of a major director’s production.
The cast for this still-untitled movie just keeps getting more star-studded. Pop superstar Taylor Swift has been cast in director David O. Russell’s upcoming movie, Collider reported Tuesday. Little is known about the secretive project which still hasn’t revealed its plot, but anticipation is growing for the period film as more and more A-listers are added to its cast.
Indeed, Swift, 31, is only the most recent big-name addition to the “American Hustle” director’s flick: She is joining Christian Bale, Margot Robbie, Rami Malek, John David Washington, Zoe Saldana, Anya Taylor-Joy, Chris Rock, Mike Myers, Robert De Niro, Michael Shannon, Timothy Olyphant, Andrea Riseborough, Matthias Schoenaerts and Alessandro Nivola.
Instagram celebrity gossip account Deuxmoi was the first to report that the “Folklore” singer would be involved in the project, which is backed by 20th Century Studios and New Regency, Collider reported. It does not yet have a release date.
Russell’s last film was the 2015 biographical drama “Joy,” starring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert De Niro, and telling the story of a TV entrepreneur.
Swift, an 11-time Grammy winner, recently graced the silver screen in the much maligned 2019 live-action adaptation of the stage musical “Cats” as Bombalurina, a feline femme fatale.
On the scale of Madonna to Tupac, where does Taylor Swift rate as a musician-turned-actor? Tupac was such a talented actor, you guys. And Madonna is such a terrible actor. So I find Taylor sort of in-between. She’s not bad, at all. That being said, David O. Russell is not the one. I know Jennifer Lawrence loves him and they have that crazy unprofessional relationship, but Russell has a long history of being physically and verbally abusive to actors and employees. There’s a reason why he hasn’t worked in six years, you know?
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She’s a great artist but idk if acting is necessarily her greatest talent. She won’t be stealing any scenes but I doubt she’ll tank any films either
Yeah, i wish Taylor hadn’t taken this role. But look at that cast! Look at all those stars lining up to work with this abusive d-wad! It’s really shocking. For god sakes.
As a fan of Taylor and Anya Taylor-Joy, I’m really excited about seeing them together in something. Taylor was actually one of the better parts of that Cats nightmare, so I think she’ll do fine. She’s not great, but like you said, she’s not bad either. But the David O’Russell issues are really disturbing. This guy shouldn’t still be making movies. His movies aren’t even that good to begin with.
Extremely upsetting that David Russell is still a megastar director. Let alone that this cast is happy to work with him! So much for Taylor’s white feminism.
Russell verbally abused Lily Tomlin as well as both verbally and emotionally abusing Amy Adams, and those are just the ones we know about. He also admitted to groping his transgender niece because she was “provocative” and was “curious” about her top surgery. He’s a known POS who is allowed to stay in the industry because his actors get award nominations. I don’t want to hear anyone on this cast talk about MeToo, feminism, and LGBTQ rights again. Taylor can keep her performative allyship.
Oh my God, I just googled the story about his niece. Horrifying. Anyone working with him gets my side-eye.
Margot Robbie, Anya-Taylor Joy, Rami Malek, and Andrea Riseborough being involved is disappointing.
Tomlin seems unfazed by Russell when talking about it in interviews. I would be like Amy Adams as far as how I reacted to his behavior.. Oddly enough, Amy had worked with him many years before and it wasn’t near as bad, I guess.
“Tomlin repeated in a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter, where she reveals that she and Russell “made up in just a few hours”—before having a “second fracas.” “By then, I was like stoic in my suffering,” Tomlin said. “But we’ve overcome it. It dissipates and it’s gone.”
Tomlin previously commented on their arguments, including for a 2011 Movieline interview where she called it “nothing.” “We don’t want to misbehave; believe me, it’s embarrassing. It’s humiliating, you know?” she said. “Because you just lose it. You act like a crazy person. But I adore David. I adore him as a talent.”
She went on to say that whenever friends assume she wouldn’t work with him again, she responds, “‘Of course I would!’ I adore him, I love him,” she said. “He’s brilliant.”
That’s sad, he’s not brilliant, and even if he were it would in no way make his behavior acceptable.
I find it very interesting that Clooney seems to be about the only actual movie star who will spill the tea. Here he is spilling on o russell
https://twitter.com/chriscjoseph/status/1399877468605976576
Tomlin is a hard-ass and I admire that she was “unfazed” by it and is okay with him, but that doesn’t change what he did: calling her a “c*nt” in front of the crew, throwing props and hitting a cowering female PA, storming around and screaming. It’s all on video. Again, I’m glad that Tomlin does not feel she was harmed, but he WAS verbally abusing her and he’s a workplace danger.
Of course, Lily Tomlin is at an age and a place in her career where she doesn’t need to give two f*s about director drama. He can’t really harm her professionally and apparently she doesn’t feel hurt by him either.
Whether or not Tomlin’s bothered by it ATM, every other person present on that set was impacted by his unprofessionalism. Throwing stuff at your employees, screaming slurs at them in a rage and otherwise verbally abusing them is NOT. OK. Even if the well-known, established person whose head you were aiming at is now like ‘meh’, how many NOT established Below the Line people were walking on eggshells for the rest of that shoot instead of being able to just show up, do their jobs to the best of their ability and collect a paycheck.
I’m really disappointed at all the people who are choosing to work with him because ‘art’. The age of the terrible unprofessional auteur / “genius” should be long in the rear view mirror. Let’s get some film directors, visual artists who DON’T abuse their casts and crews and give THEM a chance to show their stuff.
Taylor is like Justin Timberlake tbh. Mostly bad acting choices but sometimes turns out okay. I think she should just do some acting classes (if she hasn’t started) and get a better agent for this type of stuff, all the movies she has done were small roles and not really good script wise.
This movie will be awful. Just awful. You can’t give that many stars meaningful, fleshed out characters on screen in 90-120 minutes. American whatever was awful, so much hype, so little pay off.
I thought American Hustle was quite good but then I went into it without super high expectations. Good performances and interesting source material, I learned a lot about something that happened when I was way too young to understand it.
When I see a cast that big for a period film I immediately think of an upstairs/stairs downstairs drama. I really hope it’s not that.
Acting is so not her thing. She already gave it a go, why not just let it go? Not everyone is great at every single thing and that’s fine.
Hopefully Taylor’s acting will be the thing that ends his career. Win-win.
She’s not a great actress IMO but this is going to be bad for her, when you’re up against those kinds of names you have to be able to hold your own, and I don’t think she’ll be able to do that.
Just be known as a great, best-selling artist, Taylor. Your legacy will be fine.
She went through a whole trial and testified about a man who groped her butt, but has no problem with a man who sexually assaulted and groped his own niece? Really disappointed in the women who agreed to be in this movie. Especially Margot. She tries to come off as a ra-ra feminist with the movies she produces but has no qualms working for disgusting men just to chase some Oscars.
Just like Woody Allen. It literally took 40+ years of publicly gross behavior and complaints against him before people stopped working with him. Public shaming appears to be the only thing that works.
I hold the men to the same standards. Clooney refused to ever work for him again, and never has, so I will hold the men here to that standard.
Really disappointed in everyone for joining this film. He molested his *transgender* niece, and we get this news two days into Pride month, coupled with a post from Taylor about how important it is to her. There are directors who do not molest teenagers. These stars could choose their projects, and chose him. Why? It’s so upsetting.
You can thank Harvey Weinstein for Swift’s acting career. She was seen cozying up to him at a party . . . and then she was cast in “The Giver” for her first role, a movie he was producing.
Whoa!! Any proof of this? Taytay would never! Putting two and two together and not getting a story.
https://www.alamy.com/taylor-swift-chats-with-harvey-weinstein-as-they-arrive-for-the-premiere-of-one-chance-at-the-winter-gardentheatre-during-the-toronto-international-film-festival-in-toronto-canada-on-september-9-2013-upichristine-chew-image258392414.html
https://m.facebook.com/Swiftiesselenator/photos/a.165663006963180/165663280296486/?type=3&locale2=sw_KE
Then, 2-3 weeks after the party, it was announced Swift was cast in “The Giver” ( https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/5740633/taylor-swift-joins-the-cast-of-the-giver )
And her friendship with Weinstein continued:
https://people.com/awards/golden-globes-2015-taylor-swift-lorde-jamie-king-and-harvey-weinstein-party/
Excerpt: “It didn’t take long for Swift, dressed in a vibrant yellow gown, to spot another celebrity buddy, party host Harvey Weinstein, among the crowd. After spying Weinstein, 62, the performer eagerly waved him over so she could give the film producer a big hug and introduce him to her crew of ladies.”
I understand that now, Swift distances herself from Weinstein. And at no time am I blaming Swift, because Weinstein held a LOT of power and it seems like everyone knew it, so it would hurt a career to speak out against him. But I stand by what I said about Weinstein being responsible for starting her acting career.
wasn’t she in Valentine’s Day before this?
This is not shocking in the least. Taylor has always been slow to embrace causes (feminism, LGBTQ, hiding her political party affiliation) and while I understand that everyone is on their own journey, I have never seen her as a standard-bearer.
As for acting, based on her music videos and cameos in The Giver and Valentine’s Day (hard pass on Cats), she seems to struggle with making real/believable facial expressions. I would say she’s even below JT in terms of talent. Would only make sense to me if she does musicals.