Watch Taylor Swift’s Star-Studded New ‘Patient Zero’ Video with Dakota Johnson and Colin Farrell
The horror-tinged clip stars Dakota Johnson and Colin Farrell, and Swift’s ghostly twist reveals a warning about abuse and a dead heiress.
- On Sunday, September 27, Taylor Swift premiered the music video for "Patient Zero" at the MTV Video Music Awards, directing the project herself and starring Dakota Johnson and Colin Farrell in a tale of destructive romance.
- Swift explained that "Patient Zero" originated from a friend's story rather than a specific former partner, with the song using illness as a metaphor for destructive relationship patterns between exes and new partners.
- The video reveals Swift's character as a ghost—an heiress who died while married to Farrell's character—watching over Johnson and attempting to warn her by writing "Run" in blood to prevent history repeating.
- "Patient Zero" joins "Pink Clouding," "Cleveland!" and "Babylon" on "The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore," material Swift wrote in Sweden with collaborators Max Martin and Shellback while celebrating her original album's success.
- Swift received the inaugural MTV VMA Artist Director Honors shortly before the premiere, recognizing her visual storytelling work. Oscar-winning cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki shot the video, collaborating with Swift to execute her directorial vision.
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Taylor Swift has unveiled the music video for her new song, “Patient Zero,” at the MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles. The video was made with a well-known cast, where actors Dakota Johnson and Colin Farrell.Swift directed and wrote the script for the video clip, in which Johnson and Farrell play a couple facing problems in their relationship, writes DailyMail. The story includes debates, moments of passion and a kiss between the two characte…
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Who Is 'Patient Zero' About? Taylor Swift Warns Dakota Johnson to 'Run' From the Man Who Killed Her
Taylor Swift's 'Patient Zero' video stars Dakota Johnson and Colin Farrell in a toxic relationship story that ends with a ghostly warning from Swift's murdered-by-implication heiress character.
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