Younger 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 numerous {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tales featured experiences of first dates, crushes, longtime relationships and even rekindling romance between outdated flames.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 referred to as it quits in December of that very same 12 months.
“He preferred her greater than she preferred him. He went in every single place he might to see her, however she didn’t journey a lot to see him,” a supply solely informed Us Weekly on the time. “They determined they had been higher as associates.”
When the Folklore songstress launched her third studio album, Communicate Now, in October 2010, she defined to Yahoo! Music that the report’s third monitor, “Again to December,” had a special message than her different breakup anthems.
“Up till now, I haven’t actually felt like I actually wanted to apologize to somebody,” she admitted on the time. “It’s simply vital.”
Within the track, Swift sings, “You gave me roses and I left them there to die / So that is me swallowin’ my delight / Standin’ in entrance of you sayin’ I’m sorry for that night time / And I’m going again to December on a regular basis.”
Followers started to take a position that lyrics had been concerning the Twilight star after the Grammy winner referenced “tan pores and skin” and a “candy smile” together with a timeline that matched up along with her and Lautner’s romance.
“It’s nearly word-for-word. It’s a track and a dialog that wanted to occur as a result of I don’t wish to harm folks. Should you unintentionally accomplish that, you’ve received to make that higher,” Swift informed USA At present on the time of the monitor’s launch. “I really feel so snug singing about these particulars and these relationships and itemizing instances, dates, particulars, names. However in terms of an interview and so they say, ‘Are you courting this particular person?’ or ‘Did you date this particular person?’ or ‘What’s your present relationship standing?’ I out of the blue really feel very shy.”
Lautner, for his half, confirmed the track was about him in August 2016 after his Scream Queens costar Lea Michele confronted him about it throughout a Fb Dwell.
“Didn’t she write a track about you?” the Glee alum requested, to which Lautner replied, “That’s what she does,” he replied. “She writes songs. … It’s referred to as ‘Again to December.’”
Regardless of their break up, the duo remained associates and the Cuckoo alum has been noticed at plenty 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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