‘Return the scarf!’: how Jake Gyllenhaal became the laughing stock of Taylor Swift fans

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how Jake Gyllenhaal became the laughing stock of Taylor Swift fans

Since the release of the music video All Too Well, which recounts Taylor Swift’s painful breakup with a mysterious stranger, fans of the singer suspect Jake Gyllenhaal of being the subject. The 40-year-old actor is said to have had a romantic relationship with the singer in 2010.

Share “Where’s the scarf, Jake?” quipped Taylor Swift fans. Since the release of the clip All Too Well, unveiled by the singer, on Friday, November 12, the followers of the artist do not stop calling the actor of 40 years on social networks. In this song dated 2012 – it appears in the album Red -, but whose long version was unveiled only this week, the singer evokes a painful break past.

The former companion mentioned in the title would be none other, according to Internet users, than Jake Gyllenhaal. The actor and the singer would indeed have maintained a brief romantic relationship in 2010. While the duo has never confirmed these rumors, the lyrics and images of All Too Well have only fueled these speculations.

‘Return the scarf!’: how Jake Gyllenhaal became the laughing stock of Taylor Swift fans

In video, in 2013, Prince William sang “Livin’ On a Prayer” with Taylor Swift The scarf of discord Starting with a dark story of a forgotten scarf, told from the first verse by Taylor Swift. “I walked in with you,” she says. The air was cold, but I don’t know why, I felt at home.

I left my scarf at your sister’s house (Maggie Gyllenhaal, according to netizens, Editor’s note), and you still have it in your drawer.” Before adding: “You have been keeping my old scarf since that very first week, because it reminds you of my innocence and smells of my smell. You can’t get rid of it, because you remember it too well.”

In parallel, the 31-year-old singer is selling red scarves on her website for 35 dollars (30 euros), currently out of stock. An anecdote that immediately seized Internet users, with a lot of tweets, gifs and other memes. “Send him the Jake scarf, it’s not too late,” jokes one of them. (how Jake Gyllenhaal became the laughing stock of Taylor Swift fans)

“Jake Gyllenhaal probably said, ‘No, seriously Maggie, I know the scarf is your home. I’m really in the m**of there. Where is she?” said another in the caption of a photo of the sister and brother.

The phenomenon is taking on such a magnitude that actor Andrew Burnap, a friend of Jake Gyllenhaal, claims on Twitter that he himself owns the famous accessory. “It’s going to sound crazy and you’re going to think I’m kidding, but no: I think I’m in possession of this scarf,” he reveals.

Four years earlier, Maggie Gyllenhaal claimed on the set of Andy Cohen that she “was in the dark” about this scarf story, but that it was “totally plausible”.

‘Return the scarf!’: how Jake Gyllenhaal became the laughing stock of Taylor Swift fans

Listen: The editorial podcast “It’s supposed to be fun to be 21 years old” Other sequences of the fourteen-minute short film, directed by Taylor Swift and worn by actors Sadie Sink (Stranger Things) and Dylan O’Brien (Teen Wolf), have made fans react. The duo evolves on the backdrop of autumn landscape, dinner with friends and fireplace.

A video in which the singer recounts the ups and downs of this restless romance, between hugging in the forest, nocturnal dancing “in the light of the refrigerator”, arguments and a fit of tears. She remembers in particular the evening of her 21st birthday, to which her companion at the time never went.

how Jake Gyllenhaal became the laughing stock of Taylor Swift fans

“You charmed my father with your self-mockery, sipping coffee like you were on a late night show,” Taylor Swift sings. But later he looked at me looking at the front door, because I wanted you to come, and he said, ‘It’s supposed to be fun to be 21.

‘” Taylor Swift’s followers see this as further proof that it is indeed Jake Gyllenhaal, her alleged companion at the time. And once again challenge the hero of the Brothers Sisters (2018). “Don’t you like birthday cakes or what? Why didn’t you go to the party?”

“Jake, it’s for you, darling” Taylor Swift also evokes the age difference between her and her partner at the time. “You said that if we had had less age difference, it might have worked, and I wanted to die,” she continues in the headline.

Before saying, “I’m going to get older, but your companions will still be my age.” Netizens immediately made the connection with Jake Gyllenhaal, nine years older than the young woman – at the time of their romance, he was 29 years old, and she 20 years old. “Jake, if you need one shoulder to cry, I have two,” said another user. (‘Return the scarf!’: how Jake Gyllenhaal became the laughing stock of Taylor Swift fans)

The broadcast of the clip I Bet You Think About Me, directed by Blake Lively and unveiled on Monday, November 15, is far from fixing the situation. A video in which Taylor Swift makes a middle finger, addressed to her ex-companion.

“Jake Gyllenhaal, it’s for you, darling,” writes an admirer of the artist. According to another, the actor is necessarily “applying aloe vera on all his burns”, as the artist does not spare him.

So many messages to which Jake Gyllenhaal did not respond. Taylor Swift, on the other hand, went for another sting in Seth Meyers’ show on November 12. “I wonder if there are people who think they are the person mentioned in your song, and if it’s easier for them now, or much, much worse, that it comes out ten years later,” said the presenter.

To which the singer retorted bluntly: “I didn’t think about their personal experience, to be honest.”

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