If I’m being completely honest, I do think that Joe Alwyn is an attractive guy. He’s tall and lanky, and I like that. He’s got beautiful hair and sad, soulful blue eyes, and he’s got the kind of look – which many British actors have – which works well for period films and costume dramas. I’m not saying he’s the new Colin Firth or anything, but he could be the next Joseph Fiennes. Now, that being said, his new facial hair is a TERRIBLE look, and that’s coming from someone who almost always likes a scruffy, furry dude. Joe has been clean-shaven for as long as we’ve paid attention to him, but he debuted some wispy beard-like facial hair at Friday night’s New York Film Festival premiere of The Favourite. That beard makes me sad.

Speaking of beards – I know, I’m an idiot! – Taylor Swift came out to quietly support her dude. Tay-Tay and Joe are super-private, as everyone knows because they can’t shut up about how private they are, so she didn’t walk the NYFF carpet with Joe at all. Instead, she seemed to slip into the screening, and then Joe and Tay were seen after the premiere as they held hands and presumably walked to their car or to the afterparty or something. Emma Stone was also at the premiere, and Emma and Taylor are friends too.

PS… Nicholas Hoult is still quite dishy, isn’t he? Mm.

Photos courtesy of WENN and Backgrid.

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