Taylor Swift close down a very busy Los Angeles shopping center , and Beyoncé even made a surprisal show .
On Wednesday,Taylor Swiftheld the world premiere for her record-breaking concert film,Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour.
It’s a major moment for the singer, who has made a career of major moments. The film is already the highest-grossing concert film ever, according toVariety, and it’s not even out yet. The film drops in theaters worldwide on Friday.
So, in honor of the film’s opening weekend nearly being upon us, here are 25 behind-the-scenes moments from Wednesday’s premiere:
1.The premiere was held at the AMC theater in Los Angeles’s the Grove shopping center. According to theLos Angeles Times, the usually very busy center was shut down for the premiere.
2.The celebration began outside the theater whereTaylor Swiftarrived in a blueOscar de la Renta dressthat featured embroidered flowers and cutouts.
3.She notably posed with several of her tour dancers and band members.
4.Several of them shared a laugh with Taylor.
5.Taylor also took time to sign autographs…
6….and take selfies with her fans.
7.Access Hollywoodhost Scott Evans even brought cutouts of Taylor’s cats, which took the singer by surprise on the red carpet. “Love that! Wow! You always know,” she said in a video thenews outlet posted on Twitter.
.@iamscottevansmade sure#TaylorSwifthad her cats with her at the#TSTheErasTourFilmpremiere!pic.twitter.com / Q2mWsV7VUT
8.The event was star-studded.Mariska Hargitay(who appeared in Taylor’s 2015"Bad Blood"music video)…
9….Simu Liu…
10….andMaren Morris(who was featured on Taylor’s 2021 song “You All Over Me”) were among the celebs who attended the premiere.
11.Oh, andBeyoncéwas there, too. Yes,the one and only Beyoncé.
12.Taylor later shouted the fellow singer out on Instagram. You can read all about the praise she showered upon Beyhere.
13.Taylor also posed with Sam Wrench, the film’s director.
14.Popcorn was served in custom buckets which featured Taylor’s Eras poster design.
15.Several news outlets were in attendance, with Variety capturingAdam Sandlerwalking down a set of stairs inside AMC.
Adam Sandler walks down the stairs at the premiere of Taylor Swift’s#ErasTourfilm.pic.twitter.com / q2igvuWIlV
16.The Hollywood Reporter captured Taylor talking to the attendees before the movie started. “I wanted to come and say ‘Hi’ to you before you watch the film because honestly, honestly the fact that this tour was such a grand adventure has everything to do with the ways in which you cared about this tour and about these shows. I think you’ll see that you’re absolutely a main character in the film. Because it was your magic and your attention to detail and your sense of humor and the ways that you lean into what I’m doing…” she said before her mic momentarily went out.
Taylor Swift talk to the crowd at the#TSTheErasTourFilmworld premierepic.twitter.com/wvJht2gxYR
17.“It’s back. It’s back. It’s back, but I was going to scream the rest of it. We’ll never know how that would have gone. It was the ways you’ve leaned into what I’m doing and the music I create that made this tour the most fun thing I’ve ever been apart of in my life,” she continued.
18.While the film played,Entertainment Tonightcaptured a video of Taylor singing and dancing while watching herself, well, sing and dance to “Cruel Summer” on screen.
Taylor Swift in the audience watching#TSTheErasTourFilmis the full lot moment we never knew we take . 🥹#TSTheErasTourFilmPremierepic.twitter.com/0drhAFtibY
19.The Hollywood Reporter also got Taylor seemingly watching herself perform “Look What You Made Me Do” while also recreating the dance moves.
.@taylorswift13dances in her rear while she watches the premiere of#TSTheErasTourFilmpic.twitter.com / erDfYpxV1V
20.Several of the celebs in attendance posted about the occasion on Instagram. This included Maren, who shared on her Instagram story a video of herself singing along to Taylor’s song “Everything Has Changed” (presumably before the film had begun).
21.“Crazy movie night,” Simu wrote inan Instagram postof himself and his girlfriend Allison Hsu on the red carpet. “Thanks@taylorswiftand the whole eras team. what a magnetic force of a film!”
22.Karamo also celebrated attending the premiere on his Instagram story, noting he even danced with his partner Carlos Medel afterword outside the theater. “Why not take advantage of the Grove being completely shut down & dance w/ mi vida,” he wrote.
23.Hayley Kiyokoattended with her girlfriend andBacheloralum Becca Tilley. Hayley said on her Instagram story that the Grove being shut down for Taylor’s film was “the most LA epic thing ever.”
24.Then there was Flavor Flav, who shouted out a series of people he met at the premiere in an Instagram post, including Taylor’s mother Andrea Swift, her brother Austin swift, and her former backup-dancer-turned-Eras-opening-act Owenn.
25.And, finally, spoiler alert: TheNew York Timesreported which songs from Taylor’s Eras setlist appeared to be cut from the movie. (Don’t read ahead if you don’t want to know.)
They are: “The Archer,” “Cardigan,” “Wildest Dreams,” and “no body, no crime,” according to the publication.Billboardalso included “Long Live” on their list of songs cut from the film.
