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Necessary Realness: Taylor Swift Is The Queen of Easter Eggs
Taylor Swift remained cryptic erstwhile asked about that red scarf.
Speaking astatine the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival connected Sept. 9 to beforehand her 10-minute abbreviated movie All Too Well, the vocalist spoke astir the scarf she references successful the song, which galore of her fans person agelong suspected is astir her ex, Jake Gyllenhaal, who she briefly dated successful 2010. In the abbreviated film, Sadie Sink wears a reddish scarf.
"The scarf is simply a metaphor," Swift told a panel audience astatine the event, "and we turned it reddish due to the fact that reddish is simply a precise important colour successful this album, which is called Red."
She continued, drafting laughs, "And, I deliberation erstwhile I accidental it's a metaphor, I'm conscionable going to stop, and I'm going to say, acknowledgment for the unthinkable question, whoever asked it. You've truly taken america for a ride."
The archetypal mentation of "All Too Well" includes the lyrics, "And I near my scarf determination astatine your sister's location / And you've inactive got it successful your drawer, adjacent now."
An extended mentation of the song, featured successful the abbreviated film, besides contains the lyrics, "You said if we had been person successful property possibly it would person been good / And that made maine privation to die" and "And I was ne'er bully astatine telling jokes, but the punch enactment goes / 'I'll get older, but your lovers enactment my age.'"
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Despite the speculation astir its subject, Gyllenhaal has ne'er commented astir the opus and has avoided talking astir his past narration with Swift successful interviews, though helium did archer Howard Stern in 2015 that the singer is a "beautiful girl."
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His sister, Maggie Gyllenhaal, was asked astir the "All Too Well" reference connected Bravo's Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen in 2017. "You know, I ne'er understood wherefore everybody asked maine astir this scarf," the actress told big Andy Cohen. "What is this?"
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