Celeb Makes Bold Statement About ‘Hot’ Taylor Swift
Tyra Banks seems to know Taylor Swift loves a “London Boy” — the pop star’s Lover track starts out with an audio clip of Idris Elba — and now, the supermodel wants the two to collab on the remake of The Bodyguard. The idea of Swift and Elba starring in the ’90s remake is “hot,” […]
Tyra Banks seems to know Taylor Swift loves a “London Boy” — the pop star’s Lover track starts out with an audio clip of Idris Elba — and now, the supermodel wants the two to collab on the remake of The Bodyguard.
The idea of Swift and Elba starring in the ’90s remake is “hot,” Banks, 51, emphasized on a recent episode of the Today show when asked who she thinks should star in the Whitney Houston-Kevin Costner update.
“I think Taylor Swift, ’cause business and commerce, art — she would freakin’ sell like crazy,” the former America’s Next Top Model host told Jenna Bush Hager. Banks further posed the idea of a race-swap remake.
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“I’m just gonna be real, I’m a Black girl, it was Whitney Houston as a Black girl, Kevin Costner as a White man,” she said of the original movie, which starred the late Houston as a famous movie star and singer, and Costner as the titular character: her bodyguard. So, Banks continued, “What if we flipped it and it was Taylor Swift and Idris Elba? Hot!”
Swift, for her part, has already worked with the director who is reportedly helming the new film. She and Sam Wrench collaborated on her mega tour documentary, Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour, which Wrench directed. The movie grossed more than $180 million domestically, per Box Office Mojo.
When Bush Hager asked Banks — who is known for her own acting roles in Life-Size, the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and more — why she wouldn’t cast herself as Houston’s character, Banks held nothing back.
“Hell no. We need somebody that can really sing,” she quipped in response.
In addition to “London Boy,” Swift and Elba previously worked together on the 2019 movie Cats.
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