Cailee Spaeny recollects staring in the back of Taylor Swift‘s head on the Golden Globes 2024, starstruck that the singer-songwriter was proper in entrance of her.
Throughout an look on Jimmy Kimmel Stay! to advertise her upcoming movie, Civil Battle, the Priscilla star defined she was on cloud 9 on the awards present, the place she was nominated for her function within the Sofia Coppola-directed biopic.
“I heard that I used to be sitting on the Poor Issues desk, and I used to be like, ‘Oh my God, that’s a winner’s desk.’ It’s a really massive deal, so I kind of wandered in, and I used to be looking for my title tag, and I noticed Emma Stone,” she informed the late night time host. “I’m like alright, OK. So, somebody had moved my title tag, but it surely was completely fantastic. Then, Taylor Swift ended up sitting at that desk, so the jury’s nonetheless out. I really feel like perhaps my title card received moved for Taylor.”
The actress went on to elucidate that she was sitting together with her good friend, Ruby, who she took as her plus-one, and doesn’t know who received awards that night time as a result of she was so distracted by the truth that Swift was sitting close to her.
“I used to be simply staring in the back of her head the entire night time,” Spaeny informed Jimmy Kimmel. “I couldn’t consider this was my life. She’s so sparkly, and he or she’s so good. She stood up for each winner. My good friend’s like, ‘Nope, you’re not leaving right here tonight with out assembly Taylor.’”
Her good friend spent the remainder of the night time, going round asking folks how Spaeny may meet Swift, and it labored. On the finish of the night time, the Grammy-winning artist stood up and approached the actress and praised her work.
“She stated, ‘Oh my God I liked you within the film,’” Spaeny recounted. “It was so surreal, after which she additionally had remembered me in Mare of Easttown, which is loopy as a result of I solely labored like per week on that present and half of that week I performed a useless physique.”
The Civil Battle actress continued, “She’s such a professional once you’re speaking to her. You’re like, ‘Oh, I get it.’ Earlier than I even received to it, she was like, ‘Can I take a photograph with you for our recollections?’ After which my good friend — God bless her — she was like, ‘I’m in Mare of Easttown, too.’”
As a substitute of singing Swift’s praises for her albums or her huge Eras Tour, Spaeny froze and complimented her hair, telling her it was so fairly and had such a pleasant shade, she revealed.
The actress additionally shared what it was like working with Kirsten Dunst on the upcoming Alex Garland movie that follows an American civil warfare within the close to future. She defined she had grown up watching Dunst’s “uncommon” profession and famous the Oscar nominee was “inspiring” to her.
Shortly after Civil Battle wrapped, Spaeny heard that there was a possibility to painting Priscilla Presley within the Coppola biopic, and he or she auditioned for it. “She ended up placing in an excellent phrase for me and mainly received me that function,” the actress stated of Dunst, including that The Energy of the Canine star cried when she landed the half in Priscilla.
Civil Battle hits theaters April 12.