The Joseph Kahn directed visual premiered in August 2015 on Taylor Swift’s YouTube Channel.
After almost 11 years since release, the music video starred Scott Eastwood, and was of a track that was lifter off her Tay Tay’s fifth full-length body of work, 1989.
This makes it her sixth to accomplish this feat of surpassing one billion views on YouTube. (The others? “Blank Space,” “Shake It Off,” “You Belong With Me,” “Bad Blood” and “Look What You Made Me Do.”)
Her seasoned video director Joseph Kahn has also helmed the superstar’s visuals for songs “Blank Space,” “Bad Blood,” “Look What You Made Me Do,” “… Ready for It?” “End Game” and “Delicate”.
In the “Wildest Dreams” music video is Swift and Scott Eastwood as old-school Hollywood actors on the set of a 1950s movie in Africa, and whose short-lived love affair wreaks havoc during filming and at the film’s premiere. During the end credits of the gorgeously shot romantic tale, the title cards revealed that “all of Taylor’s proceeds from this video will be donated to wild animal conservation efforts through the African Parks Foundation of America.”
Eastwood while on his press tour for his 2025 film “Regretting You” admitted had he had never met Taylor Swift until this music video. He said: “She called me out of the blue. She said, ‘Hey this is Taylor.’ I’m, like, ‘Taylor who?’” This was as of the time of her calling him for the appearance in the “Wildest Dreams” Music Video. Another fun fact is that in 2016, the actor revealed that he almost didn’t make the video, following a back and forth with his agents who were hell bent on him not appearing in a Taylor Swift music video. “None of my agents wanted me to do it, actually,” Eastwood said. “They said, ‘Oh, we don’t want you to do that! Why would you be Taylor Swift’s boy toy?’ and he furthered that ‘Why the hell not?’”, and like the saying goes, the rest was history.
Watch the video for “Wildest Dreams” below: