After a six-year romance with Taylor Swift, Joe Alwyn is used to web stans being slightly bit catty towards him. Perhaps that served because the inspiration for his feline-centric promotion for his new film with Emma Stone?
Alwyn, 33, shared a nonetheless by way of Instagram on Friday, Could 10, from their upcoming movie, Sorts of Kindness. He adopted the official nonetheless with a parody photograph of himself and Stone, 35, as cats. The movie is Yorgos Lanthimos’ follow-up to 2023’s Poor Issues, which additionally starred Stone and netted her a Greatest Actress Oscar earlier this yr.
Alwyn and Stone are long-time buddies, having labored collectively on one other Lanthimos image 2018’s The Favorite. That relationship hasn’t soured within the wake of Alywn’s cut up from Swift, one other shut good friend of the actress (and well-known cat lover). Talking about their time on set, Stone referred to as Alywn “one of many sweetest folks you’ll ever meet” in press manufacturing notes for the film.
“I really like Joe,” she shared. “We needed to do some fairly darkish stuff on this one, so it was extraordinarily comforting to be with him.”
Alwyn and Swift referred to as it quits in 2023. Their separation and a subsequent fling with The 1975’s Matty Healy impressed a lot of her most up-to-date album, The Tortured Poets Division. The album held equal venom for Healy’s alleged pretensions as for followers who criticized Swift’s selection of accomplice. A reference to London pub The Black Canine — together with the insinuation that Alwyn is an everyday — induced Swifties to swarm the bar in search of her ex.
“I don’t wish to give an excessive amount of away, We do have a sure blond common who frequents, let’s simply say that,” proprietor Lily Bottomley instructed Sky Information.
The reported hang-out of Alwyn turned decidedly much less conducive to a quiet pint, as Bottomley started to promote Swift-themed gadgets (and reported the very best foot site visitors the bar has ever seen).
Whereas Alwyn and Swift have been collectively, they stored their relationship as buttoned-up and near the vest as attainable. A supply near the couple instructed Us Weekly that the extreme scrutiny of Swift’s followers was a sticking level of their relationship. “Joe may be very shy and by no means appreciated all the consideration that got here with relationship one of the crucial standard singers on the earth,” the insider stated.
The spotlight-averse actor has remained mum concerning the breakup within the wake of TTPD, even whereas working with one in every of Swift’s collaborators on the venture. Stone is credited with contributing “oddities” on “Florida!!!,” that includes Florence and the Machine.