Taylor Swift Dating News: BF Calvin Harris Makes a Cameo in ‘Wildest Dreams’ Video

By Cheri Cheng - 04 Sep '15 16:15PM
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Taylor Swift's boyfriend Calvin Harris made a cameo in her latest music video, "Wildest Dreams."

In the video, Swift, 25, and Scott Eastwood, 29, play actors who are in a romance movie set in the 1950s that is being filmed in the wild. According to a fan theory, Harris, 31, was the huge lion that showed up in several shots. Fans came to this conclusion after they saw that Harris had lion icon for his Instagram avatar. How sweet!

In other news, Swifts' video was recently criticized for representing Africa as a "glamorous version of white colonial fantasy."

The video's director, Joseph Khan, has defended the concept of the music video.

In his public statement emailed to NPR, Kahn wrote:

"This is not a video about colonialism but a love story on the set of a period film crew in Africa, 1950... The video is based on classic Hollywood romances like Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, as well as classic movies like The African Queen, Out of Africa and The English Patient, to name a few.

The reality is not only were there people of color in the video, but the key creatives who worked on this video are people of color. I am Asian American, the producer Jil Hardin is an African American woman, and the editor Chancler Haynes is an African American man. We collectively decided it would have been historically inaccurate to load the crew with more black actors as the video would have been accused of rewriting history...We are all proud of our work."

The music video was release this past Sunday during the VMAs.

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