Joe Alwyn Didn't Hold Back When Asked About Moving on From Taylor Swift

Before Taylor Swift embraced her Travis Kelce era, she said “So Long, London” to longtime boyfriend Joe Alwyn. The former couple called their six-year relationship quits back in early 2023, but according to The Brutalist actor, “other people” are still having issues accepting their breakup. Alwyn had a very blunt response when asked about his famous ex, emphasizing that he moved on “a while ago”–and he wants everyone else to do the same.

Swift came up during a new The Guardian interview when the reporter suggested that Alwyn was probably more than ready to close the door on their romance a couple years post-split. “That’s something for other people to do,” Alwyn responded. “We’re talking about something that’s a while ago now in my life.”

“So that’s for other people,” he added. “That’s what I feel.”

The Kinds of Kindness actor also opened up about how he dealt with the public fascination around his past relationship. When asked if he was worried that the attention on Swift’s stardom would overshadow his acting work, Alwyn replied that he just “tried just to focus on controlling what I can control.”

“Right from the beginning, tried to focus on the things that are meaningful for me: friends, family, work, of course,” he added, explaining that he’s just tried to ignore the “noise” of being in the “public eye.”

“If you don’t, and if you let all of that other stuff in, and if it starts to affect you and your behavior, you’re living from the outside in. And then you’re pretty fucked,” Alwyn explained.

He thanked his “great family and friends and real things” in his life for keeping him “tethered to the ground” through it all before re-iterating just how much he’d moved on from his last relationship. “So I don’t know how else to say it, it’s just in a different room,” the actor said, adding that he’s feeling “optimistic” and “lucky to be in a good place” as he heads into 2025.

Alwyn has stayed largely mum about the former couple’s private relationship, but he broke his silence in a June 2024 interview with The Sunday Times.

"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 told the publication at the time, calling it “a hard thing to navigate."

He also called out that the intense scrutiny around the breakup for exacerbating the dynamic, adding, “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."

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