There’s an old wives’ tale known among crafty folks as the Sweater Curse: Knit your boyfriend a sweater, and you’ll soon be paid for your hours of hard work in the form of a breakup. My mind instantly referenced the Sweater Curse when, back in June 2024, Sabrina Carpenter cast her then-boyfriend Barry Keoghan in the music video for “Please Please Please,” soon-to-be her first #1 hit. “I know that you’re an actor, so act like a stand-up guy,” Carpenter pleads in the song, released just as Saltburn was making Keoghan a household name. Whether by curse or not, they were broken up by the end of the year.