Zach Gilford’s Taylor Swift confession is fearless

Sometimes you’re thrilled to meet someone, but you’ve got a blank slate when it comes to their name.

This is what happened for Zach Gilfordwho played the role of Taylor Swiftis interested in the ‘Bear’ music video, as he recently revealed he didn’t know the superstar’s first name while working with her on the 2011 project.

“Here’s the thing…I’m so out of touch,” he admitted on the Jan. 24 episode of PodcastOne’s Lady Gang podcast. “They were doing all this behind-the-scenes footage on this music video and they’re interviewing me and I’m really bad with names and I didn’t know if his name was Taylor or Tyler.”

So what did Zach do? He instead referred to Taylor by her last name.

“I would only call her Ms. Swift. I would say, ‘Mrs. Swift. She’s so great. She’s so nice. It’s so great to work with,'” he recalled. “And I was terrified…I would have been the first person to cancel if I had mispronounced his name.”