How Elisabeth Moss Convinced Taylor Swift to Allow “The Handmaid's Tale” to Use Her 'Look What You Made Me Do' Rerecording

Elisabeth Moss had 1 of her wildest dreams travel existent erstwhile she asked Taylor Swift to usage 1 of her songs connected The Handmaid’s Tale.

The character and executive producer, 42, revealed really she requested nan usage of Swift’s “Look What You Made Me Do (Taylor’s Version)” for section 9 of nan deed Hulu series’ sixth season, which aired past month.

When asked what nan Grammy victor thought of nan opus being featured successful nan show — during a pivotal infinitesimal erstwhile nan handmaids walked successful statement to shape an uprising against nan Commanders led by June Osborne (Moss) — she responded, "Honestly, nan feedback was her saying yes."

Moss past revealed that she convinced Swift, 35, to let nan show to usage nan opus pinch a missive astir really her euphony has impacted her and her costars.

"That was really, genuinely specified an grant that she took nan clip to publication — you cognize I wrote her a missive astir what I felt for illustration nan opus meant for nan episode, and her euphony intends to maine and our formed truthful nan truth that she said yes to maine was each nan feedback that I needed," she explained.

After nan episode’s premiere, Moss told Billboard that utilizing 1 of Swift’s tracks successful nan dystopian play was thing she'd had been longing to do.

"I’ve been wanting to usage a Taylor opus for galore years connected nan show and we yet recovered nan cleanable spot for a way from her, and I’m truthful gladsome we waited because location could not beryllium a much cleanable opus for a much cleanable moment,” she said successful a statement. 

“Taylor has been specified an inspiration to maine personally,” she continued. “As a Swiftie myself, and I deliberation I tin speak for [co-star] Yvonne [Strahovski] and our full formed arsenic well, who are each Swifties, it’s specified an grant to beryllium capable to usage her euphony successful nan last episodes of our show.”

The character proved her Swiftie position past twelvemonth erstwhile she attended nan singer's Eras Tour extremity successful Toronto alongside her Handmaid's Tale costar Bradley Whitford and his woman Amy Landecker, sharing a threat of nan trio posing pinch Mariska Hargitay astatine nan show. 

The usage of “Look What You Made Me Do (Taylor’s Version)” — which was featured connected Swift’s album Reputation — came much than a week earlier nan creator announced she now owns her masters.

In nan announcement, Swift informed her fans of nan anticipation of releasing re-recording of nan remainder of Reputation.

"I know, I know. What astir Rep TV? Full transparency: I haven't moreover re-recorded a 4th of it,” she wrote. “The Reputation medium was truthful circumstantial to that clip successful my life, and I kept hitting a stopping constituent erstwhile I tried to remake it. All that defiance, that longing to beryllium understood while emotion purposely misunderstood, that hopeless hope, that shame-born snarl and mischief.”

"To beryllium perfectly honest, it's nan 1 medium successful those first 6 that I thought couldn't beryllium improved upon by redoing it. Not nan music, aliases nan photos, aliases videos. So I kept putting it off. There will beryllium a clip (if you're into nan idea) for nan unreleased vault tracks from that medium to hatch."

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