Joe Alwyn returned to social media after 5 months away with a nostalgic picture dump.
Alwyn, 32, posted a carousel of images on Instagram on Monday, February 19, which included a number of black and white images, a self-portrait and a screenshot from the UK model of The Workplace the place Ricky Gervais says, “Totally different drinks for various wants,” adopted by a candid picture with Succession’s Brian Cox. The submit concludes with a candy and foolish pic of Alwyn as a baby.
Alwyn’s final submit on Instagram was on September 5, 2023, with the same model of picture dump. The notoriously non-public actor’s newest submit comes days after his ex, Taylor Swift, shared that she had been “lonely” throughout a portion of their relationship.
“[I was] imagining that, as a substitute of being a lonely millennial lady coated in cat hair ingesting my weight in white wine, I used to be a ghostly Victorian woman wandering by means of the woods with a candle in a candlestick holder,” Swift, 34, mentioned throughout her Saturday, February 17, live performance in Melbourne, per social media footage. “And I wrote solely on parchment with a feathered quill. That was in my thoughts, what I assumed I regarded like, writing Folklore. … In order that’s all that issues: the delusion.”
Folklore was launched in July 2020, simply months into the COVID-19 pandemic. Swift and Alwyn have been nonetheless an merchandise on the time she was writing Folklore, because the couple spent the pandemic lockdown collectively in London. The Conversations With Pals actor additionally cowrote songs on the album beneath the pseudonym William Bowery.
“I wasn’t anticipating to make an album,” Swift instructed Leisure Weekly of Folklore in December 2020. “Early on in quarantine, I began watching a number of movies. We’d watch a special film each evening. I’m ashamed to say I hadn’t seen Pan’s Labyrinth earlier than. One evening I’d watch that, then I’d watch L.A. Confidential, then we’d watch Rear Window, then we’d watch Jane Eyre.”
The couple was non-public about their relationship, which started in 2017. It was confirmed by Us Weekly in April 2023 that Swift and Alwyn had parted methods after six years collectively. Devoted Swifties have already began speculations that her subsequent album, The Tortured Poets Division, will primarily be impressed by her and Alwyn’s breakup.
Swift introduced her newest album on the 2024 Grammy Awards on February 4. Followers theorized that the album identify was a reference to Alwyn’s group chat with actors Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott.
“It’s the Tortured Man Membership, I believe,” Alwyn mentioned throughout a December 2022 Actors on Actors interview with Selection. “It’s me, you — and Andrew Scott began the group. [Andrew is] simply messaging himself good mornings. We have been each within the Sally Rooney universe and crossed over with Lenny Abrahamson. We have been so fortunate to have that have.”