Taylor Swift could not have written the e-book that impressed the brand new film Argylle, however she shares many similarities with the movie’s protagonist, performed by Bryce Dallas Howard.
“We can’t pretend she was involved,” Howard, 42, defined on the Friday, January 26, episode of The Graham Norton Present. “The reality is she was in many ways a great inspiration.”
Howard portrays pseudonymous creator Elly Conway within the Matthew Vaughn–directed movie. The motion film follows Elly as she groups up with Sam Rockwell‘s spy, Aiden, to take down a covert organization after her Argylle book series begins to mirror actual events. Henry Cavill also stars as the fictional agent Argylle alongside Dua Lipa, John Cena, Bryan Cranston, Samuel L. Jackson, Ariana DeBose and Catherine O’Hara.
Becoming a member of Elly on her journey is her cute cat, performed by Vaughn and spouse Claudia Schiffer’s real-life pet, Chip. On Friday, Howard identified that Elly’s relationship together with her furry buddy is similar to that of Swift’s dynamic together with her three cats, Meredith Gray, Olivia Benson and Benjamin Button, all of whom are named after fictional characters.
“She is a cat lady. She’s got this awesome backpack with a cat in [it] that she walks around with,” Howard mentioned. “She loves a good argyle sweater, and there is a sort of unapologetic dorkiness about her. That’s a little bit like what my character is like.”
Swift’s identify has been floating across the movie in latest months after followers started to theorize that the pop star was truly the actual Conway, who wrote the novel on which Argylle is predicated. Little is understood concerning the creator, as her Penguin Random Home bio states that she was “born and raised in upstate New York” and “wrote her first novel about Agent Argylle while working as a waitress in a late-night diner.”
Some suspected Swift, 34, printed the novel underneath a distinct identify, having beforehand labored on tasks utilizing pretend monikers. She cowrote the 2016 Rihanna and Calvin Harris observe “This Is What You Came For” underneath the identify Nils Sjöberg.
Extra clues that added to Swifties’ Argylle theories included the character of Elly’s love of cats and that Conway shared her first Instagram submit on December 13, 2022, a.okay.a. Swift’s birthday.
Earlier this month, Vaughn, 52, instructed Rolling Stone that his daughter, Clementine, 19, confronted him concerning the Swift theories. “I’m looking at her going, ‘What are you talking about Taylor Swift wrote the book? She didn’t write the book!’” he mentioned. “And I was laughing because I was like, ‘It’s not true! She didn’t write the book!’ But my daughter was convinced of it.”
He went on to substantiate that Conway is, actually, an actual individual, stating, “I did read the conspiracies and I was like, ‘Wow, they don’t leave a stone unturned!’ But it’s not Taylor Swift. She definitely didn’t write the book.”
In one other interview with Selection, Vaughn joked that he hopes Conway will ultimately “come out of the shadows because this Taylor Swift thing freaked me out.”
Argylle premieres in theaters on Friday, February 2.