couldn’t shake the feeling that ’s music — specifically “Shake It Off” — belonged in her 2019 film “When I read the script for [and saw] that song and what it meant to Miss Caroline and to the kindergartners [was included, it] meant a lot to me that I was going to get to play it on the ukulele and everything,” Nyong’o, 41, recalled on the Thursday, June 27, episode of First We Feast’s YouTube series. However, the crew was not able to obtain permission to use Swift’s track. “When they told me, ‘No, we can’t get the rights,’ I decided, ‘OK.
I’m going to go, I’m going to make a pitch,” she told host . “[I thought,] I’m going to let Taylor know what this song means to me, and I told her that story about how it lifted me from an almost-depression, and the next thing I knew, it was cleared. I haven’t actually seen her since to thank her for it.
” Nyong’o first discovered “Shake It Off,” the lead single from Swift’s 2014 album , in the midst of filming . “I was going through a lot of self-doubt because it was the second thing I had done. I was getting a little depressed,” the actress said on Thursday.
“My best friend came to London [where I was shooting] and Taylor had just released ‘Shake It Off’ and he played it for me to like get me into better spirits. We just jumped on my bed, and we just danced and danced, and it lifted my spirits.” In the end, Nyong’o’s character was able to of the song in the film.
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