Jake Gyllenhaal remembers all of it too nicely.
The scene: It’s November 2021, and Taylor Swift’s rerecord of Crimson has simply been launched. To accompany the 10-minute model of “All Too Nicely,” her emotional trainwreck of a music, Swift releases a brief movie she directed starring Sadie Sink and Dylan O’Brien. It’s instantly and extensively accepted that Gyllenhaal, whom Swift dated for about three months from 2010 to 2011, is the villain of the story regardless of no direct affirmation from the singer herself. (Though, the proof does add up…)
Jokes and memes a few Gyllenhaal reckoning flood the web alongside assume items debating at what level an age hole is inappropriate. (Swift was 20 after they dated; he was 29.) The whereabouts of a sure scarf begin trending. Even Dionne Warwick chimes in to the dialog, tweeting, “If that younger man has Taylor’s scarf he ought to return it.”
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On the time Jake Gyllenhaal didn’t touch upon the response—although he did flip off his Instagram feedback, the one public signal that he’d obtained the loud-and-clear “fuck you” from Swift’s fan base. However in a brand new interview with Esquire, revealed on February 17, the actor responds for the primary time: “It has nothing to do with me. It’s about her relationship along with her followers,” he says. “It’s her expression. Artists faucet into private experiences for inspiration, and I don’t begrudge anybody that.”
Whereas Gyllenhaal claims the response hasn’t been laborious on him, he does develop a bit extra after the author factors out that the actor’s feedback had been turned off. “In some unspecified time in the future, I believe it’s essential when supporters get unruly that we really feel a accountability to have them be civil and never permit for cyberbullying in a single’s title,” he says. “That begs for a deeper philosophical query. Not about any particular person, per se, however a dialog that enables us to look at how we are able to—or ought to, even—take accountability for what we put into the world, our contributions into the world. How can we provoke a dialog? We see that in politics. There’s anger and divisiveness, and it’s actually life-threatening within the excessive.”
He continues, “My query is: Is that this our future? Is anger and divisiveness our future? Or can we be empowered and empower others whereas concurrently placing empathy and civility into the dominant dialog? That’s the dialogue we must be having.”
So there you might have it: A imprecise roundabout response that, sorry, may have labored as a monologue for O’Brien’s character within the “All Too Nicely” quick movie. When life imitates artwork! And no, he hasn’t listened to the album.
Supply: Glamour