Teyana Taylor says her mission whenever she runs into Beyoncé is to get her dancing. The actress and singer revealed her game plan ahead of Monday night’s Met Gala, where Beyoncé served as a co-chair alongside Nicole Kidman, Venus Williams, and Anna Wintour, with honorary co-chairs Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez.
Speaking with Extra on the red carpet, Taylor said she was eager to reunite with the superstar singer and pull her out of her shell for the evening.
“Every single time we run into each other, I make her dance,” Taylor said. “B will be somewhere chilling real low-key in the corner, and I walk up. I be like, ‘Let’s go.’”
Taylor joked that while most people admire Beyoncé from afar, she prefers to break through the crowd and create a party around her. “She knows everybody else is going to sit around and be fish bowling her,” Taylor said. “So, I’m the one who will come up and be like, ‘Girl, we’re dancing. Everybody get out the way. We dancing. Let’s go.’ I’m gonna start the circle.”
Taylor arrived at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in a custom silver-fringed Tom Ford by Haider Ackermann look, complete with a matching headdress. Describing the outfit to Vogue, she said the design was meant to feel fluid and almost supernatural.
“It looks like it’s melting as I move,” she explained. “I like to think of it as the ghost of a body. It appears and disappears as I’m moving.”
Taylor has known Beyoncé since her teenage years and previously shared advice the global icon gave her early in her career. “Invest in yourself. Don’t take it personal. This is a business,” Beyoncé once told her.
Taylor, who choreographed Beyoncé’s 2006 video for Ring the Alarm, admitted she entered the entertainment industry wearing her heart on her sleeve before learning how tough the business could be.
“I definitely came in the business at a time where I went into everything with my heart,” Teyana recalled in an earlier interview with People. “I didn’t understand certain things.” Still, she said Beyoncé’s guidance helped prepare her for the long haul and the realities of maintaining creative control in the industry.
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