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Todrick Hall Speaks Out About His Role In Taylor Swift’s ‘LWYMMD’ Music Video

By Lindsay Cronin

NEW ORLEANS, LA - JULY 02: Singer Todrick Hall speaks onstage during the 2016 ESSENCE Festival presented By Coca-Cola at Ernest N. Morial Convention Center on July 2, 2016 in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Photo by Paras Griffin/Getty Images for 2016 Essence Festival)
NEW ORLEANS, LA - JULY 02: Singer Todrick Hall speaks onstage during the 2016 ESSENCE Festival presented By Coca-Cola at Ernest N. Morial Convention Center on July 2, 2016 in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Photo by Paras Griffin/Getty Images for 2016 Essence Festival) /
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Todrick Hall is speaking out about his role in Taylor Swift’s “Look What You Made Me Do” music video.

During a new interview, the singer, actor, and YouTuber admitted that it was quite hard to keep his role in the clip a secret — especially because he and the pop star shot the project way back in May.

“It was the hardest secret ever to keep, but I know how I am as an artist and when I’m creating stuff, even if it’s just on my YouTube channel, I don’t want anyone to tell anything, I don’t want anybody to post a Snapchat or a picture,” Hall told Entertainment Weekly’s sister company INSTANT. “I think it speaks volumes of what type of a person Taylor is as a human being, as an artist, that she was able to get all of these people on a set, shoot an epic — what I don’t even want to call a music video because it’s more of a movie at this point — and get them to not say anything.”

What kept Todrick Hall and the rest of the video stars tightlipped?

“People just really were excited and I was more excited to see the reaction of people online than to tell people. So I didn’t even tell people that were very, very close to me; my own family didn’t know,” he revealed.

Then, on Sunday night, when the video finally made its debut at the 2017 MTV Video Music Awards, Hall said it was as if Christmas had come early.

What did *they* make Taylor Swift do?

Speaking of the chorus, Hall said that Swift was likely referring to the massive amount of success and attention her new song granted her.

“I’m assuming what she means by that is, You made me break every record, you made me out-sell everyone,” he noted. “You made me hire the best backup dancers in the world, you made me come out of a grave, you made me tilt a bunch of tombstones at one time — that choreography was like a flashmob of tombstones; it was really, really cool. That’s what they made her do.”

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