Joe Alwyn was a prankster as a kid.
The Brutalist actor, 33, revealed on The Drew Barrymore Show that he once pulled a prank on his neighbors that landed him and his older brother a visit from police officers. When asked about the “funniest thing” someone has “yelled” at him, Alwyn detailed the story.
“When I was about 8 years old I thought it would be a fun idea to prank the neighbors. And I wrote some letters. They were pranky but they were of the threatening-pranky kind, and they were dipped in fake blood from a toy store.”
Alwyn then shared that he “ran up and down the road” with his brother and put the letters in their neighbor’s mailboxes. He joked, “Prank done, achieved! Great!” However, Alwyn said it wasn’t so simple after that, as a neighbor called his parents asking about the letter and things escalated.
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“The street … was quickly filled with the entire neighborhood in tears and screaming and worried and, understandably, they had called the police and Scotland Yard was on its way,” he recalled. “Police cars turned up on the road cause they’ve got a killer to catch!”
“By this point I’m thinking I’m going to jail,” he continued. “About three policemen came into the house, we had to confess to our crime, and they stood over me and my brother, and because he’s 18 months older … he was the one that took the brunt of it.”
The actor added, “I don’t remember what the policeman yelled at me but they yelled.”
Earlier this week, the Kinds of Kindness star made his first-ever appearance on a late-night talk show, Late Night with Seth Meyers to promote his new film The Brutalist, where he plays the son of wealthy industrialist Harrison Lee Van Buren (Guy Pearce).
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On the show, Meyers, 51, praised Alwyn’s performance in the film — which also stars Adrien Brody as a Hungarian Jewish architect — before asking him how he was “feeling so far” on his first appearance on a late-night talk show.
“Awful,” responded Alwyn, causing the audience to laugh. He then paused and smiled before telling Meyers, “No, it’s great. I’m joking.”
Alwyn has primarily kept his private life and romance out of the spotlight over the years. Following his high-profile 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 N.Y.C.”
Speaking about how he deals with the spotlight, he told The Guardian in a recent interview that he tries to “focus on the things that are meaningful for me: friends, family, work, of course.”
The Brutalist is in theaters now.
Joe Alwyn, the British actor known for his roles in films like “The Favourite” and “Mary Queen of Scots,” recently revealed a hilarious childhood prank that landed him in hot water with his neighbors.
During a recent interview, Alwyn shared that when he was a kid, he decided to play a prank on his neighbors by sending them a blood-soaked letter. The prank went awry when his neighbors mistook the letter for a serious threat and called the police.
Alwyn explained that he had used red food coloring to create the illusion of blood on the letter, thinking it would be a harmless and funny joke. However, his neighbors didn’t see the humor in it and called the authorities.
Thankfully, the police quickly realized it was just a prank and no charges were pressed against Alwyn. The actor admitted that he learned his lesson and never attempted a similar prank again.
It seems like Joe Alwyn’s mischievous side may have gotten him into trouble as a kid, but it’s all in good fun now as he looks back on the incident with a sense of humor.
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