Taylor Swift’s boyfriend Joe Alwyn stars in BBC and Hulu series Conversations with Friends which begins tonight at 10pm.
The plot is based on Sally Rooney’s novel of the same name about two students whose lives become intimately entangled with a married couple.
Joe, 31, plays the role of Nick Conway, a married actor who gets caught in a web of infidelity.
But while Joe’s character’s life will be wrung out on screen for all to see, his relationship with Taylor, 32, is low-key and fans are often left in the dark.
In December 2020 rumours swirled thatthe pair were about to get engagedbut so far nothing official has been announced.
But how much do we know about Joe and his story so far?
The actor was born in 1991 and grew up in London where he went to drama school.
Before that he was a student at Bristol University studying English and Drama.
Early in his acting career Joe was cast in the lead role in Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, a film by Oscar-winning director Ang Lee.
Joe sent a tape to Lee and just days later ended up on a plane to New York with an invitation to meet him.
After playing Billy Lynn, Joe starred in a number of films including The Sense Of An Ending, Boy Erased, and Mary Queen Of Scots.
Taylor and Joe became an item in 2016, with the American singer already established as one of the most recognisable artists on the planet.
She has sold 50 million albums and 150 million singles globally and is one of the world's best-selling music artists of all time.
But the couple say little about each other in public and not much is known about what they are like together.
In an interview withThe Guardian , Joe explained that he doesn’t like to encourage people’s interest in the couple.
He said: “I’m aware of people’s … of that size of interest, and that world existing. It’s just not something I particularly care about, or have much interest in feeding, I guess, because the more it’s fed, the more you are opening a gate for intrusion.
“I think that’s just my response to a culture that has this increasing expectation that everything is going to be given.
“If you don’t post about the way you make your coffee in the morning, or if you don’t let someone take a picture when you walk out of your front door, is that being private?
“I don’t know if it is. So I just don’t really feed that.”
Conversations with Friends was Sally Rooney’s debut novel and published in 2017.
In 2018 it was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Folio Prize, accolades which have created much excitement among fans for how the TV show will hold up.
The show will feature 12 episodes and allow viewers to watch its chaotic love quadrangle plot unfold.
If the series is anything like Normal People, another Sally Rooney novel adapted for TV, then fans will have a lot to enjoy.
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