Most of us, at some point or another, have suffered through the slow, painful ending of a long-term romantic relationship, the gradual grinding down of what was into what’s , with nothing for it in the aftermath but to pick up your personal pieces and grimly soldier on. A comparatively much number of us, though, have then had to watch songs that are (allegedly) about said break-up smash Spotify records into tiny little pieces—or watch their ex’s next relationship became . And so it’s genuinely, undeniably fascinating to hear actor Joe Alwyn open up, just a little, about his 2023 break-up with pop star Taylor Swift.
To be clear, Alwyn—who’s on the promo tour for Yorgos Lanthimos’ , his second collaboration with the director—has never been very vocal about his 6.5 year relationship with Swift, because Jesus Christ, why would you. But he couldn’t completely dodge the obvious questions during ( ), acknowledging the surreal nature of being half of a break-up that was treated as actual international news.
“I would hope that anyone and everyone can empathize and understand the difficulties that come with the end of a long, loving, fully committed relationship of over six and a half years,” Alwyn notes. “That is a hard thing to navigate. What is unusual and abnormal in this situation is that, one week later, it’s suddenly in the public domain and the outside world is able to weigh in.
.. You have something very real suddenly thrown into a very unreal space: t.
