Joe Alwyn: Everything you need to know about the British-born actor and Taylor Swift’s ex | Explainer

Swifties are in mourning this week after it was revealed Taylor Swift and her longtime boyfriend Joe Alwyn had break up up. 

The pair had been relationship for six years, with Alwyn inspiring a few of Swift’s most romantic songs up to now (in addition to allegedly co-writing just a few).

Nonetheless, it appears the 2 will not be exchanging ‘paper rings’ any time quickly after they break up in latest weeks, the affirmation citing they had been now not “the precise match for one another”.

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Who’s Joe Alwyn?

Born in 1991, Joe Alwyn is a British-born actor from Kent.

Alwyn studied theatre and performing on the Royal Central Faculty of Speech & Drama earlier than touchdown his debut function in a characteristic movie, Billy Lynn’s Lengthy Halftime Stroll, in 2016.

It was this movie that scored Alwyn an invitation to the 2016 Met Gala, the place he met his future long-term girlfriend, Taylor Swift (who was co-chair of the occasion that yr, coincidentally).

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Why did Joe Alwyn and Taylor Swift break up?

Alwyn and Swift have reportedly damaged up after six years of relationship.

Leisure Tonight first broke the information over the Easter weekend that the singer, 33, and actor, 32, amicably break up “just a few weeks in the past”.

A supply instructed the media outlet the previous couple’s breakup “was not dramatic” in any respect, and the connection “had simply run its course.”

“It is why [Alwyn] hasn’t been noticed at any exhibits,” the supply mentioned.

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How did Joe Alwyn and Taylor Swift meet?

The pair met on the 2016 Met Gala, and though Swift allegedly went dwelling to “stalk” Alwyn on the web that evening, they didn’t get collectively after the occasion.

Swift met not only one however two future boyfriends on the 2016 Met Gala.

On the time, the singer was nonetheless in a long-term relationship with DJ Calvin Harris however met British actor Tom Hiddleston, who she later described as her ‘getaway automotive’ from her dying relationship with Harris.

In direction of the top of 2016, after Hiddleston and Swift had introduced their breakup, the singer was snapped at a Kings of Leon live performance with some well-known buddies – and Alwyn.

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What TV exhibits and flicks has Joe Alwyn been in?

Joe Alwyn is maybe finest identified for showing within the TV adaptation of Sally Rooney’s Conversations With Mates, during which he portrayed the character of Nick alongside Alison Oliver, who performed bookworm Frances.

Alwyn has additionally appeared as Robert Dudley, lover and counsellor of Queen Elizabeth, in Mary Queen of Scots, and starred in The Favorite as Baron Masham – the love curiosity to Emma Stone’s Abigail. 

He is additionally appeared in Harriet, the Oscar-nominated biopic of American abolitionist Harriet Tubman.

Most not too long ago, Alwyn has landed a task within the upcoming film The Brutalist.

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What has Joe Alwyn mentioned about Taylor Swift?

Swift has turn out to be notoriously non-public in recent times surrounding her private relationships and her relationship with Alwyn was no exception.

Nonetheless, Alwyn did give followers a short glimpse into the pair’s romance with just a few tidbits of data over time.

“I am conscious folks wish to learn about that aspect of issues,” he mentioned within the October 2018 problem of British Vogue.

“I believe we’ve been efficiently very non-public and that has now sunk in for folks … however I actually want to speak about work.”

The actor has additionally defended his tight silence over his relationship with Swift.

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“I do not assume anybody you meet on the streets would simply spill their guts out to you, due to this fact why ought to I?” he instructed MR PORTER’s The Journal in January 2019.

“After which that’s outlined as being ‘surprisingly non-public.’ Positive. However I do not assume it’s … I believe it is regular.”

Alwyn additionally addressed the fact of relationship somebody mega-famous in a candid interview final yr.

“It is not one thing I take into consideration, until I am in conditions like this, and somebody says, ‘What’s it like?’ and I’ve to consider what to say about it,” he instructed The Guardian.

“It is simply not for different folks and I do not say that with aggression.”

What has Taylor Swift mentioned about Joe Alwyn?

Swift can be notoriously non-public, however has given the odd comment about her long-term relationship with Alwyn in each interviews and in coded messages inside her songs.

Within the Disney+ unique of Swift’s Lengthy Pond Studio classes after releasing Folklore, Swift confirmed Alwyn had leant his songwriting abilities to the songs Betty and Exile. 

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“There’s been a whole lot of dialogue about William Bowery and his id as a result of it is not an actual individual,” she mentioned, referring to Alwyn’s pseudonym.

“So, William Bowery is Joe, as we all know. He performs piano superbly, and he is all the time simply enjoying and making issues up and sort of creating issues … It was a step that we might have by no means taken, as a result of why would we’ve ever written a track collectively?”

In her 2020 documentary, Miss Americana, Swift described falling for somebody “who had a extremely great, regular, balanced sort of life.” 

“We determined collectively we needed our relationship to be non-public. I used to be completely satisfied. However I wasn’t completely satisfied in the best way I used to be educated to be completely satisfied. It was happiness with out anybody else’s enter. We had been simply completely satisfied.”

Did Joe Alwyn write any Taylor Swift songs?

Sure, Swift and Alwyn have written songs collectively.

Underneath the pseudonym ‘William Bowery’, Alwyn co-wrote Exile and Betty from Folklore, in addition to Champagne Issues, Coney Island and Evermore from the album Evermore.

Alwyn was additionally credited as co-producer for six tracks from Folklore.

As for Swift’s newest document, Midnights, William Bowery was credited as co-writer for the observe Candy Nothing.

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What Taylor Swift songs are about Joe Alwyn?

Since starting a relationship with Alwyn six years in the past, Swift has written dozens of romantic tracks devoted to the actor.

Listed below are all of the songs which are both confirmed to be in regards to the actor or closely allude to the pair’s relationship:

• …Prepared For It? from Status

• Delicate from Status

• Beautiful from Status

• King of My Coronary heart from Status

• Name It What You Need from Status

• New 12 months’s Day from Status

• Lover from Lover

• Merciless Summer season from Lover

• I Assume He Is aware of from Lover

• Paper Rings from Lover

• Cornelia Road from Lover

• London Boy from Lover

• Daylight from Lover

• Peace from Folklore

• Invisible String from Folklore

• Lengthy Story Quick from Evermore

• Gold Rush from Evermore

• Lavender Haze from Midnights

• Snow on the Seaside from Midnights

• Candy Nothing from Midnights

• Mastermind from Midnights

• All of the Women You Beloved Earlier than beforehand unreleased Lover observe

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