Todrick Hall can’t stop gushing over his mega-talented, “genius” friend, Taylor Swift!
The 32-year-old YouTube star stopped by ET for a Facebook Live interview on Tuesday to talk about his partnership with “Positively Fearless,” a movement promoting HIV education among African Americans and Latinos.
During our interview, he also shared behind-the-scenes secrets from the filming of Swift’s “Look What You Made Me Do” music video.Hall is one of the dancers featured in the epic video, which made its debut over the weekend during the MTV Video Music Awards. Hall can be seen to the immediate left of Swift starting at the 2:12 mark, rocking an “I <3 T.S.” crop top, a nod to the pop star’s famous ex-boyfriend, Tom Hiddleston, who wore a similar shirt during Swift’s Fourth of July bash last summer while the two were still dating.
“That is the first and only time you’ll ever see me in a crop top,” Hall joked to ET’s Denny Directo. “I had no idea that’s what I was going to be wearing. I was super into it, but I was very nervous. I’ve never done anything like that in my entire life.”
“I just thought [the idea for that section] was brilliant,” he added. “She’s just such an iconic and epic person, and whatever she puts her hands on always turns to gold. I love the fact that she expresses how she feels through her music as opposed to on Twitter, on social media. It’s always done in such an epic and creative way. I just really appreciate any artist that does that.”
Hall — who actually met and became friends with Swift years ago after she stumbled upon one of his YouTube videos — revealed to ET that he was sworn to secrecy once he heard about the project.
“We became BFFs, and then she called and said, ‘I’m working on this project that’s super secret but I know I can trust you. Will you not tell anyone?'” he recalled. “And I didn’t tell anyone. It was the best! It felt like Christmas came early because when it came out my phone blew up more than it ever has before. Everybody was freaking out about it. It’s such an epic and iconic video to be a part of.”
“I think it was shot in May,” he continued. “And it was a huge secret to keep and it was very difficult … It speaks volume of what type of person Taylor is, that she could have all those people on set and then it not leak. People really respect her, she treats everyone so well. And I don’t know if I’m supposed to say this, but on the day that it came…
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