Alexander Skarsgard responds to rumor Taylor Swift wrote a hit song about HIM

Daily Mail​

23-07-2025

Alexander Skarsgård and Taylor Swift were pictured canoodling back in October 2013, but he's never addressed the rumor that his ex-flame went on to pen a hit song about him.
The 35-year-old billionaire pop star's 2015 track Wildest Dreams - which peaked at No. 5 on the US Billboard Hot 100 - was about a woman pleading with a 'tall and handsome as hell' lover to remember her after their affair is over.
'I can see the end as it begins,' Taylor sang in the lyrics.
'My one condition is / Say you'll remember me / Standing in a nice dress / Staring at the sunset, babe / Red lips and rosy cheeks / Say you'll see me again / Even if it's just in your wildest dreams.'
Scott Eastwood played the part of the raven-haired movie starlet's onscreen leading man in Joseph Kahn's 1950s African-set music video for Wildest Dreams, which has amassed an eye-popping 975M views on YouTube.
Armchair Expert 's Dax Shepard asked Alexander on Monday: 'Do you have the same fear to either acknowledge or deny that [the song is about you], because the power of the Swifties is so strong that you don't even want to talk about it?'
'Yeah,' the 48-year-old Emmy winner - who thinks 'we're all Swifties' - confirmed before joking: 'It's about Brad Pitt, guys. Let's be honest.'
When confronted about the lyric 'He's so bad, but he does it so well,' Skarsgård laughed: 'A lot of people can be bad, but cannot do it well.'
'I'm going to be honest. I wrote the lyrics of that song myself, and sent it to Taylor,' the 6ft4in Swede wisecracked yet again.
'"Taylor, here's what you should say."'
The 50-year-old podcaster confessed to Alexander that he's been telling his 'skeptical' 12-year-old daughter Lincoln that Wildest Dreams was about him, and the pair sang along to it when Swift performed at her Eras Tour stop in Lisbon last year.
'I think the fact that TS played it at the show we attended says it all. I present this video and rest my case,' Dax wrote on Instagram at the time.
On the personal front, the 14-time Grammy winner is celebrating her second anniversary of dating Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce this month.
Taylor is rumored to have written many hit songs about several of her exes including John Mayer, Jake Gyllenhaal, Taylor Lautner, and Joe Jonas.
Meanwhile, Skarsgård and his The Kingdom co-star Tuva Novotny are celebrating their son's third birthday this month.
The nepo baby of Stellan Skarsgård is also 'stepfather' to the Swedish 45-year-old's two teenage daughters from her decade-long relationship with Norwegian adventurer Nicolai Bjerrum Lersbryggen.
The 35-year-old billionaire pop star's 2015 track Wildest Dreams - which peaked at No. 5 on the US Billboard Hot 100 - was about a woman pleading with a 'tall and handsome as hell' lover to remember her after their affair is over
Taylor sang in the lyrics: 'I can see the end as it begins / My one condition is / Say you'll remember me / Standing in a nice dress / Staring at the sunset, babe / Red lips and rosy cheeks / Say you'll see me again / Even if it's just in your wildest dreams'
Scott Eastwood played the part of the raven-haired movie starlet's onscreen leading man in Joseph Kahn's 1950s African-set music video for Wildest Dreams, which has amassed an eye-popping 975M views on YouTube
The 50-year-old podcaster confessed to Alexander that he's been telling his 'skeptical' 12-year-old daughter Lincoln that Wildest Dreams was about him, and the pair sang along to it when Swift performed at her Eras Tour stop in Lisbon last year
'I think the fact that TS played it at the show we attended says it all. I present this video and rest my case,' Dax wrote on Instagram at the time
On July 10, Apple TV+ renewed Paul Weitz and Chris Weitz's sci-fi action comedy Murderbot for a second season, so Alexander will be back as the private security construct.
Skarsgård executive produced and starred in Harry Lighton's upcoming romantic drama Pillion, which earned a seven-minute standing ovation at the Cannes Film Festival on May 18.
The two-time SAG Award winner will also play a 'fashionable European creative' in Aidan Zamiri's upcoming pop star mockumentary The Moment for A24 alongside Charli XCX, Rosanna Arquette, and Kate Berlant.
After a brief brush with child stardom at age 13, Alexander returned to acting by memorably playing Meekus, a model killed in a 'freak gasoline-fight accident' at the beginning of Ben Stiller's 2001 hit comedy Zoolander.
But it was Skarsgård's role as 1K-year-old vampire, Sheriff Eric Northman, over seven seasons of HBO's True Blood (2008-2014), which truly launched him in the States.