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That’s her man. Taylor SwiftHe was a subtle supporter of his boyfriend. Joe AlwynHis new TV show, Conversations with FriendsHulu premiered the film,
The “London Boy” songstress, 32, didn’t mention her boyfriend, 31, in her Instagram Story on Sunday, May 15, but she included a screenshot of a positive review for Alwyn’s new drama.
“Hulu’sConversations with FriendsBreathes Fresh Air into Your Life Sally Rooney‘s Best Novel,” the headline proclaimed. A GIF showed Alwyn holding a chilled beer to costar. Alison Oliver‘s face.
Swift simply captioned the image, “Can confirm it’s phenomenal.” She also added an “out now” sticker.
The limited series follows Frances, a 21-year old college student, as she navigates a series relationships including one with Nick, a married man played by Alwyn. The steamy drama raises questions about monogamy, but the singer’s significant other assured audiences early on that he and his character have very different views on that.
“I think people can do what they want and makes them happy. I’m obviously happy in a monogamous relationship,” Alwyn noted during a panel for the show in February 2022.
The Favorite actor, who has been linked to the Grammy winner since May 2017 and recently dodged engagement questions, later revealed that he didn’t have to give any warning about sex scenes to Swift. His girlfriend was already very familiar Rooney’s 2017 story.
“She’s read the book and she loves the book so she knows it,” he told AdditionalIn May 2022. “She just, like, couldn’t be a bigger fan of the project.”
The series filmed in Northern Ireland in spring 2021, and Swift quietly visited set and met Oliver, who told London’s Sunday Times earlier this month that the Pennsylvania native was “totally cool” with the intimate scenes. Oliver insisted that Swift understands that sex scenes are simply “part of Joe’s job” as an actor.
Alwyn was given even more praise by her when she spoke only to her Use Weekly. “He’s such a generous actor and I think I learned so much from watching him work and how he kind of approached his role and prepared for it,” the Ireland native gushed earlier this month. “He just brings such a kind of an ease and such a sensitivity to that character that I learned so much as I went on. I feel like we both love our characters so much, and I think we had so much fun kind of interrogating their dynamic and playing out scenes between Nick and Frances.”
The leading lady continued, “We’re just such great friends. We kind of instantly gelled when we met each other, which is so lucky because we spent so much time together and I just feel so, so lucky to have gotten to do that with him.”
Oliver hopes Rooney’s readers are just as happy with the series. “I think there’s pressure doing anything really. There’s so much to do in a job, and I feel so lucky to have a job in general, but this one in particular,” she explained to Us exclusively. “It’s obviously such a beloved book, as is Normal PeopleI believe you can feel these things at the beginning. But once you begin to practice and start to shoot, you can get so wrapped up with your story. Normal People, and different characters … it’s actually quite difficult to compare them as such.”
All 10 episodes Conversations with FriendsHulu has streaming options.
