Next month brings the release of Matthew Vaughn’s next movie, Argylle, which has a stacked cast including Henry Cavill, Bryce Dallas Howard and Sam Rockwell. Among the other things we know about Argylle is that it follows a novelist who’s sucked into the world of espionage after her novels inadvertently get too close to the very real schemes of a criminal organization. Weirdly though, there’s a rumor going around that Taylor Swift is the author behind Argylle’s source material, and while Vaughn has debunked said rumor, he did admit that the viral theory even convinced his daughter.
To provide some context, when Argylle was announced back in August 2021, it was said to be based off a then-unpublished book by Elly Conway. We’ve since learned that Elly Conway is also the name of Bryce Dallas Howard’s within the 2024 movie release, and the Argylle book itself was finally released on January 9. However, it turns out that “Elly Conway” is a pseudonym, and the author’s real identity remains a mystery. This is what prompted people on social media to guess that Taylor Swift is the woman behind “Elly Conway” and when Rolling Stone brought this up to Matthew Vaughn (via Variety), here’s what he had to say:
