Jessica Chastain Reveals How Taylor Swift Friendship Started

Taylor Swift appears to have an unlikely friendship with most of Hollywood. Jessica Chastain is the newest A-lister publicly becoming a member of the singer’s inside circle — however they’ve really been associates for years.

“She’s actually really sweet … the best, it’s crazy,” Chastain, 46, stated about Swift, 34, throughout a Friday, December 15, look on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. “I met her in 2011 at the Met Ball, and we were both — it was, like, the first year I was invited to the Met Ball. First year I had movies out and we were both sitting next to each other.”

Chastain, who had “just gone through a breakup,” remembered speaking to Swift in regards to the break up.

“We went and danced together. It was such a fun night,” the actress shared. “Then, the next day, I had an e-mail from iTunes that said, ‘Taylor Swift,’ whatever. I just thought it was a Taylor Swift album. She had made me a breakup playlist that she sent me.”

Chastain remembered it to be “the sweetest thing.”

“Here I thought it was, like, a Taylor Swift advertisement,” she continued. “And it was like, wait a minute. And she curated all these breakup songs to send me to help me get through my breakup.”

All these years later, and Chastain has nonetheless stayed in contact with Swift. Of course, the Memory star noticed the Eras Tour as properly.

“I was in Mexico City and she was touring there [in August]. I was like, ‘Oh, I’m going to go to Taylor’s concert,’” Chastain stated, revealing that she took her assistant to the present, who’s “obsessed” with Swift.

This time round, Chastain didn’t want a breakup playlist. The actress has been married to husband Gian Luca Passi de Preposulo since 2017.

Swift’s love life, in the meantime, has skilled some ups and downs this 12 months. However, she’s at the moment on a significant excessive.

In April, Us Weekly confirmed that Swift and Joe Alwyn break up after six years collectively. The singer briefly moved on with The 1975 singer Matty Healy the next month. Us confirmed in June that the informal fling had fizzled out.

Come September, sparks began to fly between Swift and NFL star Travis Kelce. While their first public outing befell at a Kansas City Chiefs recreation that month, Swift has since revealed that she and Kelce had been holding issues low key for a bit.

“This all started when Travis very adorably put me on blast on his podcast, which I thought was metal as hell,” Swift informed TIME earlier this month, referring to the July “New Heights” podcast episode when Kelce hinted at wanting to offer the singer his quantity. Swift confirmed the 2 “started hanging out right after that.”