Standing by their love story. Aaron Taylor Johnson And Sam Taylor Johnson have defended their relationship — and their age difference — over the years.
The couple originally met when Aaron auditioned for Sam’s directorial debut, Nowhere boy. According to the native of England, her now-husband did not have much availability due to his Super awesome movie schedule, so he auditioned at her house.
“It was so inconvenient,” said Sam, who was going through a divorce Jay Jopling at the time, recalled during a 2017 interview with The Sunday TimesUK. “In the end I thought, ‘Okay, he’s going to have to come to my house.’ I opened my door to John Lennon and I knew right away he was the man.”
The director noted that she shared a “connection” with Aaron as they worked on the project together, saying, “He was very intense and absolutely made up. [about us dating].”
In 2009, the couple announced they were engaged and expanded their family with two daughters. (Sam, for her part, was already a mother of two with Jopling.)
“I knew right away that I wanted to spend the rest of my life with this person,” says de Anna Karenina star told The British Telegraph in 2017. “I knew I wanted a family with her, I knew I wanted kids, and a month later she was pregnant with our first child.”
Shortly after their marriage in 2012, Aaron and Sam changed their surname to the joint Taylor-Johnson variation. The Marvel star said it was important to him to see his new name in the credits of his upcoming movies.
“Actually, I wanted it on Savages too, but they told me the posters were already out the door. Then they said, “Look, we hired Aaron Johnson,” he said The protector in 2015, adding that he fought to see the change with other projects. “I said, ‘I want it to change! This is important.’ It felt beautiful. It felt good.”
Over the years, Aaron and Sam have hit back at criticism over their 10-year age difference. In 2017, the Godzilla actor slammed the “pushy” response when he and Sam first made their relationship public.
“But because I dealt with that early in my career, I’ve probably gotten to a place where I’m more likely to just go, ‘Oh, f—k it’ instead of wanting to rip someone’s head off for asking questions that I don’t like,” he shared during an interview with New York magazine.
The photographer, meanwhile, praised the bond she had formed with Aaron. “I literally found my soul mate,” she said in 2017. “I feel so blessed: every day I wake up happy. We spend every minute of the day together.”
Sam continued: “My friends call him Benjamin Button because – on the outside – he has such a youth, and on the inside he is so wise and settled. He doesn’t like parties. He enjoys being at home and cooking for the family. He likes to walk the dogs. He loves his chickens – he collects the eggs and makes breakfast for everyone. He’s a great man.”
The Solos executive producer said she was not bothered by the age difference between her and Aaron due to their long-term union.
“We’ve been together for over a decade now, so I feel like it’s less of a conversation for people,” she shared The everyday beast in 2019. “It doesn’t worry me, and it’s not something that’s hard to talk about because it’s such a positive story, that ten years later we’re together and working together and building a strong family together. That can be a positive message for people out there.”
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