Breathless lists of “everything Taylor and Joe have said about their private relationship” abound in the Us Weekly universe. Lengthy YouTube videos are dedicated to his rare and rather unremarkable public interactions with his overwhelmingly famous longtime girlfriend - “ Taylor Swift turns around to look at her boyfriend, Joe Alwyn, and sticks her tongue out at him” - or to the opaque references the two have made to the mere fact of each other’s existence. To Google him is to stare straight into the stan-culture abyss. Now, his first lead role since Billy, in Hulu’s second Sally Rooney adaptation, Conversations With Friends, threatens to make him fully Recognizable to Moms.įor a specific and rather substantial subset of the global population, however, Alwyn is not only a household name but a dinner-table centerpiece. He racked up a series of well-received supporting roles in big period Oscar dramas and small critically appreciated indies, usually playing a Ken-doll-faced dick ( Harriet, Operation Finale, Boy Erased, The Last Letter From Your Lover) or a blushing Brit from a bygone era ( The Sense of an Ending, The Favourite, The Souvenir Part II, Mary Queen of Scots). The 31-year-old has been working steadily in film and television since his straight-out-of-British-drama-school debut as the lead in Ang Lee’s 2016 high-def experiment Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk.

He’s not yet the sort of movie star your parents would recognize at the airport and text you about, nor does he have the box-office draw of a Chalamet or Pattinson, at least not yet. Joe Alwyn currently occupies one of the strangest spaces in the greater celebrity matrix. Grooming by Barbara Guillaume at Forward Artists using CIRCA1970 Luxury face oil.

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