Cailee Spaeny, Taylor Swift. Frazer Harrison/Getty Photographs
Priscilla star Cailee Spaeny was absolutely starstruck when she satisfied Taylor Swift.
For the duration of an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Are living! on Thursday, April 4, Spaeny recounted her encounter attending the Golden Globes for the 1st time in January. “I could have stated so lots of items, like ‘I loved your previous album,’ or ‘Wow, the Eras Tour.’ But instead, I just reported, ‘Your hair is so very. It is this sort of a wonderful color.’”
For her titular functionality in Priscilla, Spaeny was nominated for Greatest Overall performance by a Feminine Actor in a Motion Photograph – Drama at the 81st yearly Golden Globes. (Lily Gladstone gained the award for her role in Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon.)
“So surreal, I was on cloud nine,” Spaeny mentioned of the Golden Globes. “I was so fired up to be there. I obtained in and I introduced my mate Ruby. I heard that I was sitting at the Poor Items desk. I was like, ‘Oh my god, this is a winner’s desk!’ It was a incredibly big deal.” However, when she searched for her position card on the table, her name was nowhere to be found.
“Someone experienced moved my identify tag, but it was absolutely high-quality. Then Taylor Swift ended up sitting at that desk. So, the jury’s nonetheless out. I truly feel like perhaps my title card received moved for Taylor,” Spaeny explained, adding that she invested the relaxation of the night time “staring at the back again of [Swift’s] head.”
She mentioned, “I could not believe that that this was my lifestyle, I was just staring. She was so sparkly, so pleasant. She stood up for each individual winner.” By the conclusion of the night time, it was Spaeny’s buddy who facilitated her meeting with Swift.
“My buddy was like, ‘You’re not leaving listed here tonight devoid of conference Taylor.’ So, she went all-around and asked persons and lastly, at the conclude of the evening, anyone had gotten the term to [Taylor]. She stood up and stated, ‘Oh my god, I liked you in the film!’ It was so surreal.”
Spaeny starred as Priscilla Presley reverse Jacob Elordi as Elvis in Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla, which was introduced in October 2023. “She’s these a professional,” Spaeny reported of Swift. “When you are talking to her, you are like, ‘Oh, I get it.’ Before I even obtained to it, she was like, ‘Can I acquire a image with you?’”
The Pacific Rim: Uprising star famous that Swift also remembered her part in the HBO series Mare of Easttown, which surprised her. “Which is nuts simply because I only labored for like a week on that demonstrate, and 50 percent of that week I performed a dead human body,” Spaeny joked.
Spaeny is set to star following in A24’s Civil War together with Kirsten Dunst, Wagner Moura and Stephen McKinley Henderson.
