Taylor Swift’s Ex Shares Bloody Childhood Prank That Left His Neighbors ‘In Tears’ – The Boston Courier

Joe Alwyn says his greatest childhood prank went incorrect — and concerned the police.

The “Brutalist” actor shared Friday on “The Drew Barrymore Show” that, a long time earlier than he dated Taylor Swift and (and presumably grew to become the inspiration for the title of her 2024 album, “The Tortured Poets Department,”) he tortured his total neighborhood with a bloody sensible joke.

“When I was … about eight years old, I thought it would be a fun idea to prank the neighbors and I wrote some letters,” Alwyn advised Barrymore. “They were prank-y, but they were of the threatening prank-y kind, and they were dipped in fake blood from a toy store.”

Alwyn, who grew up in a small city close to London, sheepishly added, “I can’t believe I’m telling this,” earlier than explaining how he and his older brother Thomas left the letters in each mailbox on his block.

He advised Barrymore: “My parents got back from a dog walk and the phone rang and it was a neighbor on the phone to them saying, ‘Have you got one too?’ And me and my brother thought this was really funny, ’cause it was working! Success!”

The actor recalled him and his sibling being so giddy in regards to the burgeoning chaos that they ran upstairs for a greater view of the scenario, however realized that their little prank had grown into one thing much more critical when police started to reach.

“I’m not joking, this is true,” Alwyn mentioned Friday. “The street was … quickly filled with the entire neighborhood in tears, and screaming, and worried. And, understandably, they had called the police, and Scotland Yard was on its way.”

The sensible joke got here to an finish when three officers visited Alwyn’s residence and the brothers confessed, although by that time Alwyn was certain he was going to be arrested.

“I don’t remember what the policeman yelled at me,” mentioned Alwyn, “but they yelled.”

He left his mischievous previous behind to change into an expert actor, with roles in main movies equivalent to “The Favourite” (2018) and “Kinds of Kindness” (2024), and likewise contributed to 2 Swift albums throughout their romance from 2017 to 2023.

Alwyn, who’s one in all many ex-boyfriends rumored to have impressed her work, broke his silence in June in regards to the relationship ending — and advised The Occasions of London on the time that whereas he feels “good,” the breakup was a genuinely “hard thing to navigate.”

Alwyn lately wrapped an adaptation of “Hamlet” co-starring Oscar winner Riz Ahmed.