Lupita Nyong'o revealed how she was able to get clearance from Taylor Swift to be able to use smash-hit Shake It Off in her 2019 film Little Monsters.
She told host Sean Evans: 'When they came and they told me"aw, no we can’t get the rights" I decided okay. 'I’m going to go, I’m going to make a pitch, I’m going to let Taylor know what this song means to me and I told her that story about how it lifted me from an almost depression and the next thing I knew, it was cleared.'
'I wrote Taylor Swift myself and asked her and told her that story - and she said yes!' said the Kenyan-Mexican beauty, who in the film plays a teacher named Miss Caroline who plays the song on a ukulele to keep the children calm. Lupita can be seen in her latest flick A Quiet Place: Day One which is in theaters now. It is a prequel to 2018's A Quiet Place and 2020's A Quiet Place Part II