Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart perform dramatic readings of Taylor Swift's songs

The duo performs dramatic readings of Swift's songs

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Mary Sollosi
Mary Sollosi
Mary Sollosi is the former assistant features editor at Entertainment Weekly. She left EW in 2022.
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Published on July 16, 2015 12:00PM EDT
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There’s no bad blood between these three. Legendary BFFs Sir Patrick Stewart and Sir Ian McKellen have now both given dramatic readings of popular Taylor Swift songs, to great effect.

Stewart tweeted the link to his performance and asked the pop megastar, “may we join the squad?”

Apparently Karlie Kloss and Gigi Hadid have nothing on these two: Swift responded, “You two are ULTIMATE Squad Goals.” Here’s hoping they show up for the next stop of her 1989 tour.

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