Joe Alwyn gushes over ex Taylor Swift musical collaborations: ‘That was pretty special’

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Taylor Swift may have turned her pen on him on “The Tortured Poets Department.”But Joe Alwyn — who gets the ex treatment on the pop superstar’s blockbuster 2024 album — still has fond feelings about collaborating with the singer during their six-year relationship.Indeed, the British actor formed a fruitful pandemic partnership with Swift, co-writing songs on her 2020’s “Folklore” (“Exile,” “Betty”) and its sister album “Evermore” (“Champagne Problems,” “Coney Island” and “Evermore”), as well as her 2022’s “Midnights” (“Sweet Nothing”) — all under the pseudonym William Bowery.

Alwyn also served as a co-producer on “Folklore,” thus sharing in Swift’s Album of the Year Grammy win for the LP in 2021.“Lockdown was a whole host of surprises and that was pretty special,” Alwyn, 33, told The Guardian about his creative collaboration with Swift. “That was not something I would have foreseen.”Otherwise, though, Alwyn insists he has shaken off Swift, 35, after their 2023 breakup — just as she was beginning her epic Eras Tour.When asked about moving on from the split, he said, “That’s something for other people to do.

We’re talking about something that’s a while ago now in my life. So that’s for other people. That’s what I feel.”Still, Alwyn — who currently stars in the Golden Globe-winning drama “The Brutalist” — has had to navigate tricky territory going through such a public breakup with one of the most famous women on the planet.

But he never worried about it overshadowing his own career.“I have tried just to focus on controlling what I can control,” he said. “And, right from the beginning, tried to focus on the things that are meaningful for me: friends, family, work, of course.