Taylor Swift Features Her Ex, Taylor Lautner, as a Co-Star in 'I Can See You' Video; the Two Tays reunite on stage in Kansas City for the premiere

Taylor Swift really returned in December for music video casting for his newly released song "I Can See You". Released late Friday night, the video features ex-boyfriend of many, many years, "Twilight" star Taylor Lautner, as well as Joey King, Presley Cash and Swift herself.

The number of meta-meetings happening simultaneously almost required extra parts of Swifties' brains to calculate immediately like the many surprises unveiled live and on video. King and Cash have their own history with the star, having co-starred in the "Mean" video once upon a time.

The three co-stars made an appearance at Swift's show at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri , on Friday, letting live audiences see it properly as it was released around the world. Although it was rumored that Swift was working on something with the three, the first surprise marked the first real confirmation that something was brewing between them.

This whole cast is sort of a callback to 2010's "Speak Now," which didn't feature only "Mean" but "Back to December", which was understood to be Swift's musical excuse for the rift between the two young Tays leading up to her third album. Swift released her "Taylor's Version" re-recording of that album just under 24 hours before dropping the music video and bringing King, Cash and Lautner to the stage.

Of Lautner, Swift told the Kansas City crowd, "He was a very positive force in my life when I was doing the 'Speak Now' album, and I mean he did all the stunts that you saw in that clip. He and his wife became some of my closest friends, and that is very convenient because we all share the same first name. (Lautner's wife is Taylor Dome; the two were married last year.)

Lautner said to Swift in front of the stadium crowd, "I respect you so much. Not just for the singer that you are, the songwriter, the performer - but really for the human that you are. You are gracious, humble, kind and I am honored to know you."

For the audience not on hand to attend the cast meeting live, Swift explained to fans on social media what was going on.

“GOOD. THEN,” the singer wrote, pressing the caps bar. "I've been counting down for months and finally the 'I Can See You' video is out. I wrote this video treatment over a year ago and really wanted to symbolically play how I feel about myself from having fans that help me get my music back. I had my heart set on Joey King, Taylor Lautner and Presley Cash starring. Joey and Presley had been in the video for "Mean" when they were 9 and 13 and they are back and so ridiculously bad!! Taytay (Lautner) is AMAZING at it (he didn't have a stunt double!) and shout out to Tay Lautner (his wife) for being so awesome to be around on set. story of 3 taylor…

"I've always wanted to direct fight scenes/heist script", a-t she added, "and I had the most amazing time charting this with my amazing DP Jonathan Sela. So proud of this one. Swift wrote and directed the video, as she has all of her clips from the album "Lover" in 2019.

Swift had reason to point out that Lautner's action scenes in the "I Can See" video You" weren't the product of trickery, as the storyline heavily relies on his martial arts skills. The plot of the video bears little relation to the story of the song, which seems to describe an office romance. In the clip, King, Cash and Lautner are a "Mission: Impossible" type team who break into a heavily fortified vault and battle defenders to rescue Swift, who has been locked inside with her framed pouch. new album. . The chaos would seem to serve as a metaphor for Swift and her art being rescued from her old label, Big Machine, whose sale of her master recordings was the impetus for her continuing series of re-recordings.