Taylor Swift Goes Inside Capturing ‘The Eras Tour: The Final Show’ With Director Glenn Weiss On Emmy Campaign Trail

EXCLUSIVE: Taylor Swift went behind the scenes on working with The Eras Tour: The Final Show director Glenn Weiss to preserve the essence of the last stop on her recent historic, career-defining tour during an intimate event with Emmy voters recently.

The music mogul made an appearance at the Ross House in Los Angeles on Wednesday, Deadline is told, in support of Weiss as well as sound designer John Ross on their Emmy nominations for the Disney+ special. Swift herself is also nominated as a producer and performer in the film.

“One of the things that I was so impressed by, and the needle Glenn threaded so effortlessly, is that the Eras Tour was such a phenomenon because of so many factors but one that I know that is really important is that it was a source of great escapism for the people who were there,” she said to a room of 50 or so guests.

Press were not in the room for the event, and neither were phones or cameras, but one photo of Swift with her fellow nominees Weiss and Ross was shared with Deadline (see it below). We also hear Swift sang at the event, though which songs from her expansive discography are not clear.

“Glenn and I had conversations about ‘How do we preserve this experience?’ Because if you lose the feeling of relaxation and freedom for the fans there, then you’ve lost a huge element of what makes this concert experience so special. Glenn created a situation where the fans could be lost in the moment because of the rehearsals that he did with our dancers and me leading into the final show,” Swift’s remarks continued. “If you liked the choreography that you saw of our dancers, you should have seen the footwork of our Steadicam operator.”

Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour: The Final Show received five Emmy nominations, including Best Variety Special (Prerecorded), Best Directing for a Variety Special, Outstanding Picture Editing For Variety Programming, Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Variety Series or Special and Outstanding Technical Direction and Camerawork for a special.

The film is nearly three and a half hours long, featuring 45 songs. Debuting on December 12, 2025 on Disney+, the feature documents the last concert on the extensive tour, during which Swift performed songs from almost all of her albums ever released. The film was shot in Vancouver, BC.

Weiss is nominated for directing and, in fact, is double-nominated in the category for also directing the 78^th annual Tony Awards.

This is not Swift’s first Emmys recognition. She won a trophy for Outstanding Creative Achievement In Interactive Media in 2015 for AMEX Unstaged: Taylor Swift Experience. The Final Show was also produced by Taylor Swift Productions in association with Silent House Productions.