Taylor Lautner needs he might return in time to defend Taylor Swift. In a clip from the podcast The Squeeze, hosted by Lautner’s spouse, Tay Dome, the actor revealed that he thought that Kanye West’s notorious interruption of Swift’s VMAs 2009 speech was a “rehearsed skit.”
When requested by Dome what second he would go to if he might journey again in time, Lautner stated he’d return to the 2009 VMAs, the place he offered his then-girlfriend Swift with an award, and was “unaware that the Kanye factor was not a skit.”
“I gave her the award. I took 5 steps again and was standing 5 toes behind her. In the midst of her giving her thanks speech, Kanye jumps up onto the stage,” he stated. “I might barely hear it. I can’t see them. I’m simply assuming this complete factor was a practiced and rehearsed skit as a result of why else would Kanye West be leaping on the stage interrupting Taylor Swift? It simply didn’t make sense.”
“For those who look again at it, I’m really caught laughing and, like, guffawing at it. I’m like, ‘I can’t hear them, however that is in all probability actually humorous proper now,’” Lautner added. “He jumped off. She completed. The second she turned again round and I noticed her face for the primary time, I used to be like, ‘Oh. No. …That wasn’t good.’”
Watching a clip of West’s interruption on the awards present, Lautner is clearly seen guffawing earlier than trying round in confusion. However what would Lautner interrupting West even have seemed like? Would he have gone as much as West and snatched the mic again? Would he have pushed him away from Swift?
Effectively, he had some concepts as he addressed the second throughout his opening monologue of Saturday Evening Dwell again in 2013. “I used to be up on stage along with her when that occurred, and as you possibly can see… I actually stood up for her,” he stated with a shrug because the video of the second performed. “I assume I might’ve carried out a bit extra.”
Lautner then joked and recreated the second with a skit utilizing mannequins representing Swift and West. “Stand apart, honey. I’ll deal with this… Not so powerful now, are you, Kanye West? It simply so occurs that you simply messed with the unsuitable Taylors.” Lautner then throws a number of karate punches and backflips earlier than punching the West model’s head off.
We don’t know the way issues would have really gone, however the cringeworthy second has gone down in awards present historical past. It was later revealed that Pink walked as much as West and “bought in his face… and was pointing in his face and nodding forwards and backwards” after the encounter. And that West was “very upset” that he was requested to go away after the controversial second.
“I really feel like I had a complete 12 months to course of what you consider sure issues. For me, I simply write what I really feel. It’s laborious to clarify the way you get there, however numerous instances… I don’t know precisely how I really feel about one thing till I write about it,” Swift informed Leisure Tonight a 12 months after the incident, referring to her music “Harmless.” “Music has carried out a lot to get me by way of life.”
The second on the VMAs stage initiated a longstanding feud between Swift and West — there was the apology that very same 12 months, Swift presenting him with the Video Vanguard Award in 2015 with West sending her flowers. However then, in 2016, West messed issues up once more when he launched “Well-known,” that includes the road “I really feel like me and Taylor would possibly nonetheless have intercourse / Why? I made that bitch well-known” line. That second initiated a seemingly neverending saga as properly.