Taylor Swift appears to have an unlikely friendship with most of Hollywood. Jessica Chastain is the most recent A-lister publicly becoming a member of the singer’s interior circle — however they’ve really been mates for years.
“She’s really actually candy … one of the best, it’s loopy,” Chastain, 46, stated about Swift, 34, throughout a Friday, December 15, look on The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon. “I met her in 2011 on the Met Ball, and we had been each — it was, like, the primary yr I used to be invited to the Met Ball. First yr I had films out and we had been each sitting subsequent to one another.”
Chastain, who had “simply gone via a breakup,” remembered speaking to Swift concerning the cut up.
“We went and danced collectively. It was such a enjoyable evening,” the actress shared. “Then, the following day, I had an e-mail from iTunes that stated, ‘Taylor Swift,’ no matter. I simply thought it was a Taylor Swift album. She had made me a breakup playlist that she despatched me.”
Chastain remembered it to be “the sweetest factor.”
Taylor Swift and Jessica Chastain Courtesy of Jessica Chastain/Instagram
“Right here I assumed it was, like, a Taylor Swift commercial,” she continued. “And it was like, wait a minute. And she or he curated all these breakup songs to ship me to assist me get via my breakup.”
All these years later, and Chastain has nonetheless stayed in contact with Swift. After all, the Reminiscence star noticed the Eras Tour as effectively.
“I used to be in Mexico Metropolis and she or he was touring there [in August]. I used to be like, ‘Oh, I’m going to go to Taylor’s live performance,’” Chastain stated, revealing that she took her assistant to the present, who’s “obsessed” with Swift.
This time round, Chastain didn’t want a breakup playlist. The actress has been married to husband Gian Luca Passi de Preposulo since 2017.
Swift’s love life, in the meantime, has skilled some ups and downs this yr. Nonetheless, she’s at present on a serious excessive.
In April, Us Weekly confirmed that Swift and Joe Alwyn cut up after six years collectively. The singer briefly moved on with The 1975 singer Matty Healy the next month. Us confirmed in June that the informal fling had fizzled out.
Come September, sparks began to fly between Swift and NFL star Travis Kelce. Whereas their first public outing occurred at a Kansas Metropolis Chiefs recreation that month, Swift has since revealed that she and Kelce had been protecting issues low key for a bit.
“This all began when Travis very adorably put me on blast on his podcast, which I assumed was metallic as hell,” Swift instructed TIME earlier this month, referring to the July “New Heights” podcast episode when Kelce hinted at wanting to present the singer his quantity. Swift confirmed the 2 “began hanging out proper after that.”
