Soon-to-be feature film director Taylor Swift has directed her first music video 'Out of Necessity'

Taylor Swift rarely turns down a chance to be a multi-hyphenate.

The Grammy-winning singer-songwriter recently announced her feature directorial debut with Searchlight Pictures. Swift is confirmed to be writing an original screenplay for the feature film after directing the Oscar-qualifying short "All Too Well" starring Sadie Sink and Dylan O'Brien. The "Anti-Hero" singer made her first music video in 2019 for "The Man."

"It actually came out of necessity," Swift said during Variety's Directors on Directors series opposite "Banshees of Inisherin" director Martin McDonagh. "I had been writing my videos for years, and I had a video that was a very specific concept that I wrote [2019's 'The Man'], which was that I wanted to be prosthetically turned into a man and live my life as as a man. And I wanted a female director to direct it."

Swift continued, "And the few people I reached out to were thankfully reserved. We like it when women work. So I thought, 'Maybe I could do that.' And when I realized , I just thought, "This is actually more fulfilling than I could have ever imagined."

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She added, "It was kind of [by accident]. I think I've done about 10 music videos and now a short film. I'm slowly progressing towards taking on more responsibility."

Swift recently directed Laura Dern and HAIM for the "Bejeweled" video and said she would like to swap places with Guillermo del Toro for a day. Also an actress, Swift appeared in David O. Russell's "Amsterdam," stole scenes in Tom Hooper's "Cats," and infamously auditioned for the Academy Award-winning "Les Miserables."

The Grammy winner recently shared "All Too Well," saying the short has been in the works for over a decade. "I loved every second of it and will always remember it," Swift said.

"I think I gave myself permission to take this full leap into directing a narrative short because it's not a music video; we approached everything differently," Swift said during a screening of the short at the Tribeca Film Festival. "You know, shooting 35 millimeters and all the decisions that went into creating these characters and diving into that world."

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