Priscilla star Cailee Spaeny was utterly starstruck when she met Taylor Swift.
Throughout an look on Jimmy Kimmel Stay! on Thursday, April 4, Spaeny recounted her expertise attending the Golden Globes for the primary time in January. “I might have stated so many issues, like ‘I liked your final album,’ or ‘Wow, the Eras Tour.’ However as a substitute, I simply stated, ‘Your hair is so fairly. It’s such a pleasant colour.’”
For her titular efficiency in Priscilla, Spaeny was nominated for Greatest Efficiency by a Feminine Actor in a Movement Image – Drama on the 81st annual Golden Globes. (Lily Gladstone gained the award for her position in Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon.)
“So surreal, I used to be on cloud 9,” Spaeny stated of the Golden Globes. “I used to be so excited to be there. I received in and I introduced my pal Ruby. I heard that I used to be sitting on the Poor Issues desk. I used to be like, ‘Oh my god, it is a winner’s desk!’ It was a really large deal.” Nonetheless, when she looked for her place card on the desk, her title was nowhere to be discovered.
“Somebody had moved my title tag, but it surely was completely advantageous. 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,” Spaeny stated, including that she spent the remainder of the evening “staring in the back of [Swift’s] head.”
She famous, “I couldn’t consider that this was my life, I used to be simply staring. She was so sparkly, so good. She stood up for each winner.” By the top of the evening, it was Spaeny’s pal who facilitated her assembly with Swift.
“My pal was like, ‘You’re not leaving right here tonight with out assembly Taylor.’ So, she went round and requested individuals and at last, on the finish of the evening, somebody had gotten the phrase to [Taylor]. She stood up and stated, ‘Oh my god, I liked you within the film!’ It was so surreal.”
Spaeny starred as Priscilla Presley reverse Jacob Elordi as Elvis in Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla, which was launched in October 2023. “She’s such a professional,” Spaeny stated of Swift. “If 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?’”
The Pacific Rim: Rebellion star famous that Swift additionally remembered her position within the HBO collection Mare of Easttown, which shocked her. “Which is loopy as a result of I solely labored for like every week on that present, and half of that week I performed a useless physique,” Spaeny joked.
Spaeny is about to star subsequent in A24’s Civil Battle alongside Kirsten Dunst, Wagner Moura and Stephen McKinley Henderson.