“This past fall, we saw lots and lots of Red. As in the Taylor Swift album. On November 12, 2021, the artist released Red (Taylor’s Version), which featured a 10-minute-long version of her beloved breakup anthem, “All Too Well.”
“Fans have long assumed that “All Too Well” details Swift’s flicker of a relationship with Jake Gyllenhaal—and those same fans clamored so loudly in Gyllenhaal’s Instagram comments after the song’s rerelease that he shut them off.
“Until now, that was the only indication that Gyllenhaal was even aware of the song that inspired a hell of a Saturday Night Live! performance from Swift.
“In Esquire’s new cover story with Gyllenhaal, the actor—during a drive to upstate New York—finally addressed the situation that made for one of last year’s bigger celebrity stories.”
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