Joe Alwyn continues to put on a defiant display as he attends cocktail party during Cannes Film Festival – after ex Taylor Swift savaged him in new album and also showed off her ROMANTIC dates

Joe Alwyn continued to put on a defiant display as he posed at a cocktail party during Cannes Film Festival on Thursday night – as he emerges back into the limelight after being savaged by his ex Taylor Swift in her new album.

The actor, 33, arrived in the French city earlier in the day and his airport appearance was the first time he had been seen since the new music was released.

Last month his ex-girlfriend Taylor, 34, released several savage tracks about their failed six-year relationship on the record, The Tortured Poets Department.

But Joe looked unbothered by the recent controversy as he attended the Golden Globes and Robb Report bash wearing a stylish black and white shirt.

He completed his outfit with black jeans and wore a leather belt and smart shiny shoes.

He is likely attending Cannes Film Festival to promote his upcoming eccentric new film Kinds Of Kindness – set for release on June 21 – which he stars in alongside Emma Stone.

Stone, who stars opposite Alwyn in the Yorgos Lanthimos directed film, described the actor as ‘one of the sweetest people’ as she promoted the film in a press release obtained by People.

‘I love Joe,’ Emma said in the release. ‘We had to do some pretty dark stuff on this one, so it was extremely comforting to be with him because he’s one of the sweetest people you’ll ever meet.’

Kinds of Kindness is not the first time Stone and Alwyn have appeared in a film together, as the duo both worked on The Favourite, another movie directed by Lanthimos.

It comes nearly a year after the end of Joe’s relationship with Taylor.

Taylor may have accused ex-boyfriend Joe of shattering her dreams of marriage and children in stinging new lyrics on her album – but the British actor will retain a modicum of silence, and has no plans to react, insiders claim.

Joe, has never publicly discussed his split from the singer, whom he dated for six years from 2017 until their breakup in April 2023.

But Taylor has seemingly bared her soul about the break down of their romance on her latest album – with insiders claiming Joe has been left ‘disappointed’ and has banned any mention of the singer from the upcoming press tour for his new film, Kinds of Kindness.

‘There has been absolutely zero contact between them,’ a source exclusively told DailyMail.com ‘She did not run these songs by him, but he did not expect her to.

‘Joe has listened to the album, and he is slightly disappointed, but not surprised at all.

‘She didn’t really trash him or defame him. Joe is not going to react to this.’

Taylor, who is now dating NFL champ Travis Kelce, mostly retreated from the spotlight during her time with Joe, with the super private pair rarely pictured in public together.

They won a Grammy for Album of the Year in 2021 after Joe co-wrote and co-produced a number of tracks on her album Folklore under the pseudonym William Bowery.

They were also nominated for the same award a year later for Evermore.

The insider explained that Joe was more than aware of Taylor’s song-writing process thanks to the tracks they had created together.

‘Taylor draws on her relationships for almost all her songs and he admires her artistry,’ the insider added.

‘He has made a ton of money off the six songs that he wrote for Taylor in the past and he is grateful that their relationship also helped to make him a household name.’

‘He has a movie coming out that he is focused on,’ the sourced stated. ‘He will be doing press – but will not be entertaining any Taylor questions.

‘Joe has moved on. He is not holding any grudges against her for doing what she does. He knows that it was par for the course.’

In previous years, the Boy Erased actor refused to publicly discuss their relationship.

‘People on the street wouldn’t tell strangers about their personal lives , so why should I?’ he said before they split last year.

In 2022, he told Harper’s Bazaar that he ‘can understand’ the interest in their relationship as he is a public figure, before adding: ‘but I don’t see why these questions should always be answered.’

‘I completely expect people to ask those questions, if I’m putting work into the world, of course people are going to ask about that,’ he added.

But despite being split for a year, Taylor’s latest record has increased speculation about their romance, with the song appearing to accuse Joe of cheating and shattering her vision of the future in songs including So Long, London and Fresh Out the Slammer.

After TTPD dropped, Taylor shared a statement about letting go of the ‘sensational and sorrowful’ time that inspired the album.

‘This period of the author’s life is now over, the chapter closed and boarded up,’ she wrote. ‘There is nothing to avenge, no scores to settle once wounds have healed.

‘And upon further reflection, a good number of them turned out to be self-inflicted.

‘This writer is of the firm belief that our tears become holy in the form of ink on a page. Once we have spoken our saddest story, we can be free of it. And then all that’s left behind is the tortured poetry.’

The album also appears to reference her brief dalliance with The 1975 frontman Matty Healy in the weeks after her split from Joe.

Lyrics refer to a man in a ‘Jehovah’s Witness suit’ – Matty is known for his distinctive black suits – and typewriters, which feature on stage during his live shows.

There is also mention of drug use. The frontman, who is now dating model Gabbriette Bechtel, has talked openly about substance abuse in past interviews.

Their fling, which neither party confirmed, ended as fast as it began after Taylor received a backlash from fans over Matty’s ‘bad boy’ image and ‘racist’ impressions on a podcast.