Taylor Swift Wows Toronto As She Presents ‘All Too Well’; Talks Wooing Sadie Sink and Dylan O’Brien For Roles; Hints At Feature Film Ambitions

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Taylor Swift fever hit the Toronto Film Festival on Friday night as the singer-songwriter star passed through with actress Sadie Sink to present her 10-minute work All Too Well: The Short Film, followed by an hour-long In Conversation event with festival CEO Cameron Bailey.Fans slept overnight on the pavement outside the TIFF Bell Lightbox theatre in the hope of getting a place via standby, while bars and eateries along the festival’s King Street hub, blasted out the Taylor Swift classic – the 2012 track ‘All Too Well’ – which inspired the short.Taylor Swift fans are taking over #TIFF22 pic.twitter.com/N3bDxzMvTi— Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) September 9, 2022 For Swift, the event afforded her an opportunity to give the short work a public screening in its original 35mm format.“It’s really meaningful to get to present the short film on 35mm because that was how it was originally shot,” Swift said ahead of the screening.Taylor Swift opens ‘All Too Well’ at #TIFF22 pic.twitter.com/8L8QvxlX0M— Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) September 9, 2022Sink (Stranger Things) and Dylan O’Brien (Maze Runner) co-star as a younger woman and a slightly older man in an up-and-down relationship that eventually fails but leaves an indelible mark on both and lingering regrets.Having launched online last November, All Too Well played at select theatres in the U.S.

and screened at Tribeca in June and there is now talk of the short being a potential awards season contender.Swift told Bailey that it was no surprise that she had ended up writing and directing a short film, explaining that there had always been a visual element in the way in which she conceived songs and presented them to the public.“When I would write a song, I would immediately