Inside Josh Charles’ day working with ‘damn cool’ Taylor Swift on ‘Fortnight’ music video

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Ethan and I just had one hell of a day,” Charles said of his “Dead Poets Society” co-star. “It was a great opportunity for us to spend some time together and laugh.

It was great. I was super excited about it. And it was really cool for my kids,” he added, referring to his 10-year-old son and 6-year-old daughter with his wife, Sophie Flack.

In the music video for Swift’s song, off her newly released album “The Tortured Poets Department,” Swift wakes up in what appears to be an asylum.Post Malone, who is featured on the song, is revealed to be an old flame.

Charles and Hawke play scientists working in a lab. Malone later swoops in to save Swift from the lab experiments. Swift wrote on Instagram shortly after the video’s release that Malone “blew me away on set as our tortured tragic hero and I’m so grateful to him for everything he put into this collaboration … I’m still laughing from getting to work with the coolest guys on earth, @ethanhawke and @mrjoshcharles (tortured poets, meet your colleagues from down the hall, the dead poets).”Charles’ and Hawke’s character names from the 1989 film are written on their lab coats in the video.“We stay in touch quite a bit,” Charles told us of Hawke. “I see him and we text quite a bit.