Inside Josh Charles’ day working with ‘damn cool’ Taylor Swift on ‘Fortnight’ music video

It was out of his wildest goals.

Josh Charles, finest regarded for “The Fantastic Wife,” not too long ago starred with Ethan Hawke in Taylor Swift’s new music video for “Fortnight,” which dropped April 19.

When Swift achieved out to him about it, his first response was, “First of all, [to] make certain I wasn’t staying Punk’d,” Charles told The Put up although marketing his new Hulu demonstrate “The Veil” (premiering April 30, with new episodes out Tuesdays). 

“Then, I was pretty psyched,” he included. 

“I imagined it was a interesting plan she had, and I was truly touched by it. Ethan and I just had one hell of a day…it was a fantastic prospect for us to commit some time jointly and chuckle. It was great. I was tremendous energized about it. And it was actually neat for my youngsters,” he extra, referring to his 10-calendar year-outdated son and 6-calendar year-aged daughter with his spouse, Sophie Flack. 

In the music online video for Swift’s tune off of her newly launched album “The Tortured Poets Office,” Swift wakes up in what seems to be an asylum.

Post Malone, who is showcased on the song, is exposed to be an aged flame.

Charles and Hawke play researchers functioning in a lab. Malone afterwards swoops in to help save Swift from the lab experiments. 

Swift wrote by way of Instagram shortly immediately after its launch, “@postmalone blew me away on set as our tortured tragic hero and I’m so grateful to him for every thing he put into this collaboration,” she ongoing. “I’m continue to laughing from having to function with the coolest men on earth, @ethanhawke and @mrjoshcharles (tortured poets, fulfill your colleagues from down the corridor, the dead poets).”

Charles and Hawke ended up initially co-stars in 1989’s “Dead Poets Modern society.” Their character names had been prepared on their lab coats in the online video.

“We stay in touch quite a little bit, I see him and we text really a little bit. I had accomplished a voice for his documentary on Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward [“The Last Movie Stars”], I experienced voiced a character or two. But we recognized we basically hadn’t worked jointly and been on digicam together [in a long time],” Charles reported about his marriage with Hawke.

“So we ended up laughing about that. By the time we obtained there, it was very late, and we had been weary and goofy and giggly. We experienced a good deal of laughs. It was all great inner thoughts.” 

About doing work with Swift, he said, “Honestly, what is most astonishing is how approachable she was, and how damn cool she was. I never know if I envisioned her not to be, but I just believe that was this kind of a enjoyable shock.”

He extra: “She’s at the major of the world proper now, and just felt like this kind of a grounded awesome human. It was great to discuss to her and invest a working day doing the job and laughing.”

Swift also directed the video. “She was a fantastic director, far too, my sort of director, is aware of what she desires, and then you really don’t have to do it eighteen instances,” he told The Article.

“We acquired it, we can go on. I enjoy that sort of confidence with directors.”

“I was just impressed by the total scope of it. I was previously a fan, I’m even a greater fan now. That is how I felt, her class and the way that she taken care of us – it doesn’t choose that considerably, but when people address you like that, you have additional appreciation,” he continued. “It was a fantastic lesson for me, way too, just to recognize in my very own small way, it doesn’t consider that a great deal much more to join with persons and go the more mile. She’s quite great at that, apart from currently being an exceptionally talented artist.”