Taylor Swift casts Graham Norton in new Opalite music video

Taylor Swift casts Graham Norton in new Opalite music video — Culture | The Guardian
Source: Culture | The Guardian

Taylor Swift has cast Graham Norton in the music video for Opalite, the second single from her album The Life of a Showgirl to receive music video treatment after The Fate of Ophelia. Norton appears alongside the guests who sat with Swift on his show in October 2025: Domhnall Gleeson, Greta Lee, Jodie Turner-Smith and Lewis Capaldi.

The whimsical, fantastical video, produced with a retro 90s aesthetic, is written and directed by Swift. Her lonely character befriends a pet rock, while Gleeson’s equally lonely character bonds with a cactus before a magical spray-on Opalite brings them together.

Norton plays a salesman hawking Opalite; Turner-Smith is a fitness instructor; Lee mimes as a fictional singer-songwriter on MTV; Capaldi plays a mall photographer. Cillian Murphy does not act in the video but appears as a billboard image and provides a voiceover.

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