Olivia Rodrigo wants fans to take her home for Christmas, but in the meantime, she’s taking them behind the scenes.
The pop star shared footage from the making of her new “Take Me Home (4 Christmas)” music video on Wednesday (Nov. 11), giving fans a look at how her idyllic family montage with costars Ben Marshall and Cynthia Nixon came to life. “We are in beautiful upstate New York,” she reveals of the shoot location. “It’s absolutely gorgeous out. We’re in this awesome house.”
The behind-the-scenes features clips of Rodrigo seemingly meeting the Saturday Night Live actor for the first time, as well as fangirling over the Sex and the City star between takes. “I’m over the moon,” the Grammy winner tells Nixon. “I just can’t believe it.”
At one point, Marshall struggles with an axe a little too convincingly during his scene in which he chops wood for a fire, prompting people off camera to ask him repeatedly if he’s OK. “Yeah, I’m acting!” he says with a laugh.
“Take Me Home (4 Christmas)” dropped alongside its music video on Nov. 5, marking Rodrigo’s first holiday song. The visual shows her fantasizing about coming home with her boyfriend, played by Marshall, to spend Christmas with his family, daydreaming about being the picture-perfect daughter-in-law in everyone else’s eyes.
Not everything goes exactly to plan, with her beau’s younger sister coloring all over Rodrigo’s face while doing makeovers and Nixon at one point walking in on the singer in her underwear. Fans get to see how both sequences were filmed in the new BTS video, including the Gilded Age actress’ hilarious gasp of shock when she sees Rodrigo without all of her clothes on.
“Take Me Home (4 Christmas)” follows Rodrigo’s third album, you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love, which recently nabbed its fourth week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.
Watch the “Take Me Home (4 Christmas)” behind the scenes above.
