Taylor Swift Reveals the Surprising Impact Longtime Friend Emma Stone Had on the Eras Tour

It’s nice to have a friend like Emma Stone.

In her new docuseries Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour | The End of an Era, the pop superstar opens up about how her longtime pal helped shape the trajectory of the record-shattering tour with one recommendation.

When Swift, 35, was beginning to plan the tour — which ran from March 2023 to December 2024 — Stone, 37, made a referral, suggesting she hire choreographer Mandy Moore, whom she had worked with on the 2016 Oscar winner La La Land.

“With choreography, I asked one of my friends, Emma Stone, who’s done a lot of work in dance in her films, ‘Who have you worked with that you would recommend for this?’ She’s like, ‘There’s only one person that needs to be on your list, and it’s Mandy Moore,'” Swift says in the show’s second episode.

Moore went on to choreograph Swift and her 15 dancers on the Eras Tour, though the dance professional admits in the second episode that she didn’t have as much experience choreographing music tours — but clicked with Swift “because her songs are mini movies.”

“I never would have thought that I would be in the same sentence as Taylor Swift, ever, in my life. You know, I’ve always been a big fan, but I, funny enough, I come from really more film and television. I don’t really do artist performance,” Moore says in the docuseries. “Now I understand why I was brought in, ’cause she really wanted to do something different, and she likes the storytelling.”

A three-time Primetime Emmy winner, Moore, 49, has an impressive résumé in the dance world, having worked on everything from Glee and Silver Linings Playbook to So You Think You Can Dance and Dancing with the Stars. She also choreographed the music video for Swift’s latest hit “The Fate of Ophelia,” off her historic 12th album The Life of a Showgirl.

“She’d gotten a bad rap for a long time about her dancing, so she was really in her head,” Moore told the New York Times in an interview published in October. “We shifted the focus to how movement was already manifesting in her body — the way she naturally wanted to move. And then we fine-tuned that: ‘OK, that looks a little weird with your shoulders,’ or, ‘Let’s straighten your knee here.’”

In the docuseries, viewers get a behind-the-scenes look at how the Eras Tour came together, including a look at choreography sessions and rehearsals that also reveal that Swift learns dance moves lyrically, based on syllables, rather than the classic eight count.

The first two episodes of the six-partTaylor Swift: The Eras Tour | The End of an Era docuseries are streaming now. Swift also released The Eras Tour: The Final Show, a concert film documenting the last show of the tour in Vancouver last December, on Friday, Dec. 12.