STEVEN SODERBERGH REALLY WANTS TAYLOR SWIFT ERAS TOUR TICKETS: 'I CAN'T GET IN'

Even being an Oscar-winning director doesn't help you snag the hottest tickets in any town.

Steven Soderbergh has an Oscar for directing and several hit films to his name, but even he is having trouble scoring tickets to Taylor Swift's latest tour.

The director behind Magic Mike, Erin Brockovich, Ocean's Eleven, and more tells the Hollywood Reporter that he'd go to one of Swift's shows if he could, but, like the rest of us, snagging a seat is not easy.

"I can't get in," he said. "But I watched the film."

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The storyteller also talked about Swift's stunning success as an entrepreneur.

"Look, people laugh at how there's a college class being taught about her in business school," he said. "There should be. What she has done, what she's doing in the way she's doing it, nobody has ever done this before. The amount of control that she has taken. And she's doing this all herself. Nobody has ever done this. It's working. And it's a great model."

He applauded her for being so hard-working and disciplined, famously having trained by singing her songs while running on a treadmill to prepare for her Eras shows. The tour has been a phenomenal success since it kicked off in March 2023, breaking records including becoming the highest-grossing concert tour of all time. It doesn't even wrap up until December.

"She's obviously relentless, in terms of doing the whole show on a treadmill just to make sure she can do it," Soderbergh said. "I would like to know more about how she is on a granular level, how is she doing all of this? How does the business work? What's her brain trust? How is the money? How does all the money move? How does it work? I'm fascinated by that because it's a success story."

The director even suggested that some sort of analysis be run on "every conversation that's happening everywhere in the world and tell us on average how many minutes go by when a conversation starts before Taylor Swift is mentioned, I would be curious to know because I have a feeling it's not very many minutes."

Yes, that's the story of us — all of us — right now.

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