Exactly two years ago this weekend, Rosalía performed at Coachella with then-fiancé Rauw Alejandro. They’d just announced their engagement the month before. Two months after the festival it was over after a two-year relationship and a few months after that, she was seen with Jeremy Allen White. Their situationship lasted almost a year.
Rosalía did not appear to be in Palm Springs this weekend. But she was photographed in Beverly Hills and not alone. Here she is looking more than friendly with Emilio Sakraya.
It’s that shot of her face in his neck. You are not putting your face in someone’s neck unless they’ve had their mouth all over yours.
Here’s what’s newsworthy to me about this – new couple alert is obviously gossip but it’s also Emilio himself. He’s German, an actor and musician. Never heard of him until January, when Kathleen was nagging at me to read Rebecca Yarros’s Fourth Wing. I wrote about the book series at our Substack, The Squawk, a few weeks ago and how huge it is on BookTok. This is when Emilio started showing up in my feed – which, for me, was more evidence of how f-cked up the algorithm is because I wasn’t actively searching for Fourth Wing content on social media but somehow Instagram and TikTok started serving me content that I’d only been talking about on text.
Anyway, Emilio’s connection to Fourth Wing is that it’s being adapted into a series for Amazon and he’s one of the people who’s been fan-cast to play Xaden Riorson, the male lead character. If you haven’t read the books, Fourth Wing is the first installment in The Empyrean series. It’s romantasy, like dragon riders and conflict and sex. The story centers around Violet Sorrengail who enters the academy to learn how to ride dragons and fight and Xaden is the hot ass romantic interest – he has an attitude problem and a grudge and tattoos and he f-cks like a champion, you get the idea.
Given the obsession over the series, whoever plays Xaden is going to be like Robert Pattinson and Edward Cullen. And Emilio is fully aware of what the fans are saying and seems to be campaigning for the part on social media, posting photos of him reading the book etc etc etc. Check the emoji:
There’s another actor, Josh Heuston, who’s been doing similar, and fans of the book are reading into these as clues that they’re to be part of the show. Will their thirst be successful? No indication that they’re anywhere near going into production on the series so it might still be a while before any announcements are made. But FYI, Rosalía is dealing with someone a certain corner of the internet is already familiar with. Wonder if that might be an accidental advantage over the competition.
