Young love: full of promise, unaware of actuality? Valentine’s Day featured a few of Hollywood’s greatest stars — and even set the stage for some real-life romance.
The romantic comedy, which was launched in February 2010, adopted varied {couples} round Los Angeles as they handled the highs and lows of their relationships on Valentine’s Day. The sequence of interconnected tales featured experiences of first dates, crushes, longtime relationships and even rekindling romance between outdated flames.
Helmed by critically acclaimed director Garry Marshall, the movie was overflowing with A-list stars together with Julia Roberts, Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Garner, Jessica Alba, Patrick Dempsey, Queen Latifah, Jamie Foxx and extra. Two of the film’s leads, Taylor Swift and Taylor Lautner, nonetheless, discovered love off display after portraying highschool sweethearts.
The twosome started courting in fall 2009 after filming for the film started, however known as it quits in December of that very same 12 months.
“He liked her more than she liked him. He went everywhere he could to see her, but she didn’t travel much to see him,” a supply completely instructed Us Weekly on the time. “They decided they were better as friends.”
When the Folklore songstress launched her third studio album, Speak Now, in October 2010, she defined to Yahoo! Music that the file’s third observe, “Back to December,” had a distinct message than her different breakup anthems.
“Up until now, I haven’t really felt like I really needed to apologize to someone,” she admitted on the time. “It’s just necessary.”
In the music, Swift sings, “You gave me roses and I left them there to die / So this is me swallowin’ my pride / Standin’ in front of you sayin’ I’m sorry for that night / And I go back to December all the time.”
Fans started to take a position that lyrics have been concerning the Twilight star after the Grammy winner referenced “tan skin” and a “sweet smile” together with a timeline that matched up together with her and Lautner’s romance.
“It’s almost word-for-word. It is a song and a conversation that needed to happen because I don’t want to hurt people. If you unintentionally do so, you’ve got to make that better,” Swift instructed USA Today on the time of the observe’s launch. “I feel so comfortable singing about these details and these relationships and listing times, dates, details, names. But when it comes to an interview and they say, ‘Are you dating this person?’ or ‘Did you date this person?’ or ‘What’s your current relationship status?’ I suddenly feel very shy.”
Lautner, for his half, confirmed the music was about him in August 2016 after his Scream Queens costar Lea Michele confronted him about it throughout a Facebook Live.
“Didn’t she write a song about you?” the Glee alum requested, to which Lautner replied, “That’s what she does,” he replied. “She writes songs. … It’s called ‘Back to December.’”
Despite their cut up, the duo remained associates and the Cuckoo alum has been noticed at quite a lot of Swift’s live shows through the years. In November 2021, Lautner received engaged to a different Taylor — Taylor Dome — and the pair tied the knot one 12 months later. The “Shake It Off” artist, for her half, has been in a relationship with Joe Alwyn since 2016.
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