Joe Alwyn continued to put on a defiant display while posing at a cocktail party during the Cannes Film Festival on Thursday night, as he emerges back into the spotlight after being savaged by his ex Taylor Swift on her new album.
The actor, 33, arrived in the French city that same day and his appearance at the airport was the first time he was seen since the release of the new music.
Last month, his ex-girlfriend Taylor, 34, released several wild songs about their failed six-year relationship on the album The Tortured Poets Department.
But Joe didn’t seem concerned about the recent controversy as he attended the Golden Globes and Robb Report party wearing a stylish black and white shirt.
She completed her outfit with black jeans and wore a leather belt and stylish shiny shoes.
Joe Alwyn continued to put on a defiant display while posing at a cocktail party during the Cannes Film Festival on Thursday night, as he emerges back into the spotlight after being savaged by his ex Taylor Swift on her new album.
Joe didn’t seem fazed by the recent controversy as he attended the Golden Globes and Robb Report party wearing a stylish black and white shirt.
Last month, his ex-girlfriend Taylor, 34, dropped several wild tracks about their failed six-year relationship on her new album, The Tortured Poets Department.
He is likely to attend the Cannes Film Festival to promote his upcoming wacky new film Kinds Of Kindness, scheduled for release on June 21, in which he stars alongside Emma Stone.
Stone, who stars alongside Alwyn in the Yorgos Lanthimos-directed film, described the actor as “one of the sweetest people” while promoting the film in a press release obtained by People.
“I love Joe,” Emma said in the statement. “We had to do some pretty dark things in this case, so it was extremely comforting to be with him because he’s one of the sweetest people you’ll ever meet.”
Kinds of Kindness is not the first time Stone and Alwyn have appeared in a film together, as they both worked on The Favorite, another film directed by Lanthimos.
It comes almost a year after the end of Joe’s relationship with Taylor.
Taylor may have accused her ex-boyfriend Joe of destroying her dreams of marriage and children by including new lyrics on his album, but the British actor will maintain a minimum of silence and has no plans to react, insiders claim.
Joe has never spoken publicly about his split from the singer, whom he dated for six years from 2017 until their breakup in April 2023.
But Taylor has seemingly bared her soul about the breakup of her romance on her latest album; Insiders claim that Joe was “disappointed” and has banned any mention of the singer from the upcoming press tour for his new film, Kinds of Kindness. .
The actor, 33, arrived in the French city earlier in the day and his appearance at the airport is the first time he has been seen since the new music was released.
Actress Susan Chardy also arrived at the party and wore a leggy purple dress.
She looked great in the stunning dress as she posed with French professional tennis player Jeremy Chardy.
Her makeup was flawless and she wore her dark dresses in an elegant slicked-back style.
Actor Lewis Tan wore an elegant black suit
She posed with Lucy Qiu, who wore a figure-hugging red dress.
Joe is likely to attend the Cannes Film Festival to promote his upcoming wacky new film Kinds Of Kindness, scheduled for release June 21, in which he stars alongside Emma Stone; in the photo 2018
Joe is focusing on promoting his upcoming film, Kinds of Kindness (pictured with co-star Emma Stone) and is said to have banned questions about Taylor during promotion.
“There has been absolutely no contact between them,” a source exclusively told DailyMail.com. “She didn’t tell him these songs, but he didn’t expect her to.
‘Joe heard the album and is a little disappointed, but not surprised at all.
‘She didn’t really criticize him or defame him. Joe is not going to react to this.
Taylor, who is now dating NFL champion Travis Kelce, mostly retreated from the spotlight during her time with Joe, and the super-private couple rarely appears in public together.
They won a Grammy for Album of the Year in 2021 after Joe co-wrote and co-produced several tracks on their album Folklore under the pseudonym William Bowery.
They were also nominated for the same award a year later for Evermore.
The source explained that Joe was more than aware of Taylor’s songwriting process thanks to the tracks they had created together.
“Taylor draws on her relationships in almost all of her songs and admires her artistry,” the source added.
“He’s made a ton of money from the six songs he’s written for Taylor in the past and is grateful that their relationship has also helped make him a household name.”
“He has a movie coming out that he’s focused on,” the source said. ‘He will do press, but he will not accept any questions about Taylor.
‘Joe has moved on. He doesn’t hold any grudges against her for doing what he does. He knows it was normal.
In previous years, the Boy Erased actor refused to speak publicly about their relationship.
‘People on the street wouldn’t tell strangers about their personal lives, so why should I?’ she said before they broke up last year.
In 2022, she told Harper’s Bazaar that she “can understand” the interest in her relationship as she is a public figure, before adding: “but I don’t see why these questions always need to be answered.”
“I hope people ask those questions; if I’m putting work into the world, of course people will ask me about it,” he added.
But despite being separated for a year, Taylor’s latest album has increased speculation about their romance, with the song appearing to accuse Joe of cheating and destroying his vision of the future on songs such as So Long, London and Fresh Out the Slammer.
Following the release of TTPD, Taylor shared a statement about letting go of the “sensational and painful” moment that inspired the album.
“This period of the author’s life is now over, the chapter is closed and walled up,” he wrote. ‘There is nothing to avenge, no scores to settle once the wounds have healed.
And upon further reflection, a good number of them turned out to be self-inflicted.
‘This writer firmly believes that our tears become sacred in the form of ink on a page. Once we have told our saddest story, we can free ourselves from it. And then all that remains is tortured poetry.
Taylor may have accused her ex-boyfriend Joe of destroying her dreams of marriage and children by including new lyrics on his album, but the British actor will maintain a minimum of silence and has no plans to react, insiders claim.
The singer bared her soul about all the things she believes went wrong in their romance on The Tortured Poets Department, leaving Joe ‘disappointed’.
The album also appears to reference her brief flirtation with The 1975 frontman Matty Healy in the weeks following her split from Joe.
The lyrics refer to a man in a ‘Jehovah’s Witness outfit’ (Matty is known for his distinctive black suits) and typewriters, who appear on stage during his live shows.
Drug use is also mentioned. The frontman, who is now dating model Gabbriette Bechtel, has spoken openly about substance abuse in previous interviews.
Their affair, which neither party confirmed, ended as quickly as it began after Taylor received backlash from fans over Matty’s “bad boy” image and his “racist” impressions on a podcast.
