Is Taylor Swift's "Wildest Dreams" About Alexander Skarsgård? He Says…| E! News

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Alexander Skarsgård made Swifties’ wildest dreams come true when he finally addressed whether Taylor Swift’s song of the same name might just be about him, as has long been believed by her fans. Full Story:
I read that the song's about you.
Oh, this is so exciting.
I have to kill you.
Alexander Skarsgård is speaking out about longtime Taylor Swift rumors.
While many Swifties have thought Taylor's song, Wildest Dreams, is about him for years,
based on his and Tay's time working together on The Giver, it wasn't until recently that
Alexander finally faced the rumors head-on.
Armchair Expert podcast host Dax Shepard joked with the actor July 21st that he's told his
and Kristen Bell's daughters for years that the song is about him, only to discover in
his preparation for the episode that Alexander was named as the mystery tall man in the song.
And the Big Little Lies alum reacts to the rumor.
I read that the song's about you.
Oh, this is so exciting.
I have to kill you.
You can't exist because I've told my children that song's about me.
She saw you in the audience.
She's like, I'm going to sing this song.
Maybe it is about you.
It is about you.
Well, if you're dead, then yes.
I wasn't in the crowd in Lisbon.
I wasn't there.
So it was clearly about you.
Okay, now do you have the same fear to either acknowledge or deny that that could be true
because the power of the Swifties is so strong that you just don't even want to talk about
it?
Yeah.
That's fair.
That is totally fair.
But while Alexander neither officially confirmed nor denied the longstanding rumors, he did
lean in a little bit.
Moving on.
Well, I'm going to be honest.
I wrote the lyrics to that song myself.
Wow.
I did too.
And sent it to Taylor.
Great job.
Great writing.
Taylor, here's what you should say.
But this is the most important line.
He's so bad, but he does it so well.
That's the line.
That's a good line.
A lot of people can be tall, but to be bad and do it so well.
A lot of people can be bad.
But he can do it well.
He cannot do it well.
