Taylor Swift The Man Music Video Actors. Official page for "The Man" by Taylor Swift. Swift directed the music video solo, marking the first time she's done so for an official single's music video.
The Man portrays toxic masculinity at its most cartoonish and stereotypical.
Importantly, the closing scene attributes 'Taylor Swift' — bolded and capitalized — as the star, director, writer, and owner of the 'The Man.' Taylor Swift plays a man-spreading, cigar smoking, strip-club-going male business executive in the new video for her track, The Man.
The song is taken from her seventh studio album, Lover, the first new music released since her departure from Big Machine Records. Taylor Swift directs the latest video from the Lover era. "I loved the months of prep, meetings, locating scouting, set design, mood boards, deciding every detail down to the wardrobe each actress/actor wore, and working with them on set," Swift said. On Thursday, Swift shared some behind the scenes photos from the video shoot on her official Instagram account, writing "Just sitting here pondering how happy I am that The Man music.