Dan MacMedan, USA TODAY

Jake Gyllenhaal appears to throw shade at Taylor Swift

By Megan Armstrong | Last updated Jan 12, 2022 7:06 PM ET

Two can play at the shade game, Taylor.

Jake Gyllenhaal has been at the center of renewed Swiftie ire since Taylor Swift released Red (Taylor's Version) in November, and along with it, the track "All Too Well (10 Minute Version) (Taylor's Version)" — long assumed to be about Gyllenhaal since Red's original 2012 arrival.

The 10-minute version of the ballad housed even more Easter egg clues indicating Gyllenhaal, whom Swift dated briefly at the end of 2010, as the song's target — especially the infamous scarf.

With all of that establish, we present to you Gyllenhaal's new photo shoot with W Magazine:

When #JakeGyllenhaal first saw the Danish film, #TheGuilty, he knew he wanted to tell the story through an American lens. “It’s a movie about assumptions—what we project onto other people when we can't see them, and why we do that.” Read on, here. https://t.co/6wQIKSlPVZ pic.twitter.com/BHOGalkCuw
— W Magazine (@wmag) January 12, 2022

Jake Gyllenhaal photographed by Tim Walker for W Magazine’s Best Performances issue pic.twitter.com/9vzIk7wxRK
— Film Updates (@FilmUpdates) January 12, 2022

The parallels can't be a coincidence:

jake gyllenhaal for W magazine wtfff #RedTaylorsVersion pic.twitter.com/bt9snbdD9I
— eddie_swift (@eddie_klauss) January 12, 2022

Jake Gyllenhaal vacuuming Taylor Swift's scarf pic.twitter.com/2cdQE2K6cG
— mariam (: (@mariamaquarium) January 12, 2022

Gyllenhaal is not asked about "All Too Well," and he does not dare mention Swift, in the accompanying interview, but you can still read it here.

Megan Armstrong

Megan Armstrong (@megankarmstrong) is a writer whose work has appeared in places such as Billboard, GQ, Esquire, Bleacher Report, Uproxx, and others. Megan has also produced various podcasts and hosted a daily radio show at Mizzou. She grew up obsessed with sports — impressing adults by memorizing NFL statistics as a kindergartner — and grew into an obsession with music

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