Joe Alwyn Makes His First Late-Night Talk Show Appearance with Seth Meyers

Joe Alwyn just reached a new career milestone.

On Tuesday, Jan. 14, the actor, 33, made his first-ever appearance on a late-night talk show, Late Night with Seth Meyers, to promote his latest film, The Brutalist.

The film, directed by Brady Corbet, centers on Hungarian Jewish architect László Tót (Adrien Brody), who survives the Holocaust and sets out to America to rebuild his life.

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Things turn south after a wealthy family led by prominent industrialist Harrison Lee Van Buren (Guy Pearce) commissions him for a job. Alwyn plays his son, Harry Lee Van Buren.

He and Seth Meyers had a hilarious exchange as the two discussed Alwyn’s character.

“The story is about a Hungarian immigrant, who Adrien plays, who flees to America after the war. And he’s taken in by this big American aristocratic family who commissioned him for a job to build a monument, and things go south,” the Kinds of Kindness actor explained. “And I play Harry, who’s the son of this family.”

“And he’s there to oversee parts of the commission, and he’s, yeah, he’s slimy and entitled and a bit of a menace and has some daddy issues, and, so, yeah, they came to me,” Alwyn continued with a smile.

After Meyers, 51, laughed, he praised Alwyn’s performance and pointed out that it was his first appearance on a late-night talk show. “How are you feeling so far?” he asked.

“Awful,” responded Alwyn, causing the audience to laugh. He then paused and smiled before telling Meyers, “No, it’s great. I’m joking.”

While Alwyn may have appeared nervous, his fans reacted positively to his late-night talk show debut in the comment section.

The Brutalist comes after Alwyn appeared in Kinds of Kindness, which hit theaters in June 2024.

A year after his breakup with Taylor Swift after six years of dating, a source told PEOPLE that Alwyn was “doing well” and was “focused on work,” splitting his time between “London and NYC.”

Speaking about how he deals with being in the spotlight, he told The Guardian in an interview published earlier this month that he tries to “focus on the things that are meaningful for me: friends, family, work, of course.”

“So noise outside of that, I think I’ve done what lots of people who find themselves in the public eye do, which is just try and ignore it,” he told the outlet. “If you don’t, and if you let all of that other stuff in, and if it starts to affect you and your behavior, you’re living from the outside in. And then you’re pretty f——.”

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The Brutalist is in select theaters now.