Ethan Hawke thinks Taylor Swift wanted ‘psychic connection’ to Dead Poets Society in ‘Fortnight’ Video.

Taylor Swift might just have inspired some folks to stand atop desks and recite poetry with her “Fortnight” music video.

The record-breaking artist pays tribute to 1989 film Dead Poets Society in her music video for the first single off new album, The Tortured Poets Department, “Fortnight.” And it was Swift’s idea to deliberately reference the film, according to Ethan Hawke who appears alongside other Dead Poets castmate Josh Charles in the video.

“I think there’s some kind of psychic connection she was trying to provide for the fans about The Tortured Poets Department and the Dead Poets Society,” Hawke mused on SiriusXM’s The Jess Cagle Show With Julia Cunningham. “She was kind of doing some little homage, and so she asked a couple of us old dogs to come out and make our presence known.”

Hawke and Charles play researchers at a bizarre, Victorian Gothic–style clinic in the black-and-white video.