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Taylor Swift even inspires our favorite directors.

Starring Anne Hathaway and directed by David Lowery, their upcoming film Mother Mary follows a pop star named Mother Mary (Hathaway) who cancels her tour and reunites with her former designer and best friend, Sam (Michaela Coel). The musical thriller explores the themes of art and obsession, buried trauma and toxic friendship dynamics. Others starring include Hunter Schafer, FKA twigs and Kaia Gerber, and songs written by Charli xcx and Jack Antonoff are included in the film.

On Tuesday afternoon, Empire published its interview with Lowery, who revealed the main inspiration behind the concert scenes and film art for Mother Mary. To people's surprise, the 45-year-old director's inspiration was Taylor Swift, specifically her concert movie for her Reputation Stadium Tour, which ran from May to November 2018, and supported her sixth studio album with the same name. The film, Taylor Swift: Reputation Stadium Tour, was released exclusively on Netflix on New Year's Eve in 2018, a month after the tour concluded.

“Her Reputation concert film is one of the best concert films ever. It's truly phenomenal. And for our concert sequences, we looked at that repeatedly,” Lowery told the publication. “You would not believe the amount of time we were talking about Taylor.”

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Lowery continued explaining that he used Reputation as "a guide" because they had to find a way to pull off a stadium concert show under a tight budget.

"We took three songs from Reputation and broke it down, shot by shot, and looked at them like, 'Okay, if we were doing these, how much would these shots cost to do in visual effects?'" he explained. “We used that as a budgeting tool, because we didn't know how to wrap our heads around actually pulling off a stadium concert-show on a minimal budget."

Hathaway is also a big fan of the "Shake It Off" singer, and was seen trading friendship bracelets and singing along in the VIP section at one of the Eras Tour stops in Germany back in July 2024. Lowery revealed that he attended that concert with Hathaway, and she gave the director a friendship bracelet that spells "Anti-Hero," referring to one of Swift's songs in her album, Midnights, after Mother Mary wrapped.

"I definitely brought a lot of Taylor Swift to the table in terms of who Mother Mary was," he told the publication. "I would often be like, 'Imagine Taylor Swift in ten or 15 years – that’s sort of who this character could be.'"

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Lowery is best known as a writer and director, credited for many films including The Green Knight (2021), Pete's Dragon (2016), A Ghost Story (2017), Peter Pan and Wendy (2023) and Pioneer (2011). His latest film, Mother Mary, will be in theaters on April 17.

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