Did you know that Joe Alwyn is Grammy winner?!
30.04.2022 - 21:47 / usmagazine.com
An unexpected surprise. Joe Alwyn explained that he doesn’t often think about girlfriend Taylor Swift‘s fame, so he certainly didn’t expect their fun musical collaboration to win a Grammy Award.
“That was a surreal bonus of lockdown. That’s an understatement,” the British actor, 31, told The Guardian in an interview published Saturday, April 30. “It wasn’t like, ’It’s five o’clock, it’s time to try and write a song together.’ It came about from messing around on a piano, and singing badly, then being overheard, and being, like, ‘Let’s see what happens if we get to the end of it together.’”
Alwyn, credited as William Bowery, cowrote “Exile” and “Betty” for Swift’s Folklore, released in July 2020, which won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in March 2021. He also cowrote “Champagne Problems,” “Coney Island” and the title track of Evermore, which she released in December 2020.
“I mean fun is such a stupid word, but it was a lot of fun,” he continued. “And it was never a work thing, or a ‘Let’s try and do this because we’re going to put this out’ thing. It was just like baking sourdough in lockdown. The Grammy was obviously this ridiculous bonus.”
The Grammy winner, who said he doesn’t plan to pen any more hits, is focused on acting. He is set to star in the Hulu series Conversations With Friends, an adaptation of the Sally Rooney novel, as well as The Stars at Noon, a film set to debut at Cannes Film Festival later this year. He’d much rather talk about his fictional characters’ personal lives than his own.
Alwyn revealed that he doesn’t philosophize too much about his life as the boyfriend of an iconic pop star. “It’s not something I think about, unless I’m in situations like this, and someone says, ‘What’s it like?’ and I
Did you know that Joe Alwyn is Grammy winner?!
Taylor Swift’s boyfriend, Joe Alwyn, is finally dishing deets on why he chose to use a pseudonym for his collaboration on her GRAMMY-winning album, Folklore, and the meaning behind said pseudonym.
Taylor Swift's boyfriend, Joe Alwyn, is finally dishing deets on why he chose to use a pseudonym for his collaboration on her GRAMMY-winning album,, and the meaning behind said pseudonym.During an appearance on Thursday's , the 31-year-old actor said the pseudonym was more about keeping the focus on the track and less about sending Swifties on an Easter egg hunt.«We chose to do it so the people, first and foremost, would listen to the music first before dissecting the fact that we did it together,» he explained. «We did it under the name William Bowery, very fancy.
Amazon today unveiled the first clip from its Lena Dunham film, Catherine Called Birdy, also announcing that it will hit theaters on September 23, in advance of its Prime Video debut on October 7.
Best known for the HBO series “Girls,” Lena Dunham is making a name for herself as a filmmaker with films such as her recent Sundance entry “Sharp Stick” which was reviewed by The Playlist in January, and the upcoming film “Catherine Called Birdy.” The latter is a PG-13 period comedy at Amazon Prime Video with an interesting British cast that consists of Bella Ramsey, Billie Piper (“Doctor Who“), Andrew Scott (“Fleabag,” “Spectre“), Joe Alwyn (“The Favourite“), Ralph Ineson (“The Witch“), Dean-Charles Chapman (“1917“), and with Dunham also taking a role.
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Taylor Swift’s boyfriend Joe Alwyn stars in BBC and Hulu series Conversations with Friends which begins tonight at 10pm.The plot is based on Sally Rooney’s novel of the same name about two students whose lives become intimately entangled with a married couple. Joe, 31, plays the role of Nick Conway, a married actor who gets caught in a web of infidelity. But while Joe’s character’s life will be wrung out on screen for all to see, his relationship with Taylor, 32, is low-key and fans are often left in the dark.
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Riz Ahmed is set to lead a modern adaptation of Hamlet.The actor will be teaming up with Aneil Karia, his collaborator on the Oscar-winning The Long Goodbye, for the new film.Ahmed will play the titular role and will see Hamlet “move through London’s elite circles and attend exuberant parties, going to violent lengths to avenge his father and prove his uncle guilty” according to Deadline.Karia will direct the film, from a script by Macbeth writer Michael Lesslie. Morfydd Clark (Saint Maud) has been cast as Ophelia, while Joe Alwyn (Conversations With Friends) will play Laertes.“This is a Hamlet about race, privilege, corruption – and whether setting things right means setting fire to the entire old order,” Ahmed and Karia said in a statement obtained by the publication.“This Hamlet belongs to a wealthy British Indian family who buy their way up the English establishment at great personal cost.
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A supportive couple! Taylor Swift reacted well to Joe Alwyn’s sex scenes in his new Hulu series, Conversation With Friends. The actor revealed in an interview with Extra that the evermore singer is a big fan of the book from which the series is based on, and expected the sex scenes to come.
Conversations With Friends, Rooney’s first novel, follows the conversations between two best friends and lovers, Frances and Bobbi, via text, email, instant messaging, and face-to-face interaction. Things get murky when the pair becomes entangled with older married couple Nick and Melissa.In an interview with , Joe Alwyn, who plays Nick in Hulu's adaptation of the 2017 novel, said that he is in a group chat with the actor who starred as Connell in the 2020 series , also an adaptation of a Rooney novel. The name of the chat? The Tortured Man Club.Shortly after Alwyn was cast, a mutual friend created and named the WhatsApp group, “which is I guess a reflection on Connell and Nick,” Alwyn said of the histrionic name.
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Record Store Day 2022.As part of RSD’s 15th anniversary, hundreds of exclusive physical releases – including vinyl, CD and cassette – were made available at over 260 participating indie retailers nationwide.Fans can get their hands on special records from the likes of Blur, Taylor Swift, Elvis, U2, Bring Me The Horizon, Sam Fender and Blondie.Many celebrated managing to bag ‘The Lakes’ 7″ by Swift, who is the global ambassador of Record Store Day 2022.“Still can’t believe this happened but I’m so glad to have another addition to my Taylor Swift collection, especially one of my favourite tracks for my first RSD!” one customer wrote on Twitter.Another Swift fan shared a picture of their clear vinyl of ‘The Lakes’, captioning it: “Three hours later and she’s finally mine.”Elsewhere, a third Twitter used said: “SO SO HAPPY !!!!!! I GOT IT!! after waking up at 4am for record store day I now own ‘The Lakes’ on vinyl and it is so beautiful.” You can see those tweets below.Three hours later and she’s finally mine