Taylor Swift ex Joe Alwyn and their past love story did not get much screen time in the 2020 documentary about the singer’s life.
And, four years later, Miss Americana director Lana Wilson revealed why.
“Because her relationships have been through the microscope, I didn’t really have any interest in filming that,” she said at a Nov. 23 screening of the film at New York City’s Museum of the Moving Image, per the Daily Mail. “She’s been through so much, this should be private, it’s not related to the themes in the film or what I thought she was going through right then.”
As such, Alwyn—whom Swift dated from 2016 to early 2023—is largely absent from the story.
“I thought she was going through something so profound and powerful, this real change that didn’t really have anything to do with her relationships,” Wilson continued, “so it was never something I wanted to film, actually. It felt disrespectful and weird to me.”
