Bond hopeful Aaron Taylor-Johnson, 32, met wife, 55, as a teen when 11-year marriage ended | Celebrity News | Showbiz & TV
Aaron Taylor-Johnson, 32, is an established actor famed for his roles in films like 2022’s Bullet Train and Marvel’s 2015 film Avengers: Age of Ultron. However, when he first met his famous director wife Sam Taylor-Johnson, 55, he was still an up-and-coming actor in his late teens.
The couple have been going over ten years strong now, marrying in 2012 and sharing two daughters, Wylda Rae Johnson and Romy Hero Johnson.
The potential Bond actor first rose to fame when he portrayed Robbie Jennings in 2008 British teen romcom Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging.
From there, he went on to star as John Lennon in the 2009 biopic Nowhere Boy, which was directed by wife-to-be Sam.
The year before in 2008, Sam had split from her husband of 11 years Jay Jopling, 59, with whom she shared two daughters: Angelica, 25, and Jessie, 17.
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Despite their 23-year age gap, Sam and Aaron went on to strike up a romance off the back of working together on the director’s feature film debut Nowhere Boy.
While it is not clear whether Aaron was 19 or 18 years old when they first met, various publications agree that Sam was 42 when they started working together.
According to The Telegraph, the pair first laid eyes on one another at the auditions in 2008, a year prior to the film’s release.
Sam went on to reveal in a 2017 interview with The Sunday Times that they almost didn’t meet because Aaron was only available to audition on a date where Sam was absent.
It seems the pair had an instant connection, and entered into a whirlwind romance soon after meeting.
“As soon as we finished, he told me he was going to marry me,” Sam told Harper’s Bazaar. “We had never been on a date, or even kissed.”
“And a year to the minute after we met, exactly one year to the minute, I got down on one knee and asked her to marry me,” Aaron said.
The pair announced their engagement at the UK premiere of “Nowhere Boy” in 2009, and confirmed Sam was pregnant with their first child just a few months later.
In more recent weeks, Aaron has reportedly met with 007 producers amid rumours he is tipped to be the next James Bond.
The star apparently went to discuss the iconic role following Daniel Craig’s exit from the popular film franchise.
According to Puck News, he sat down with legendary producer Barbara Broccoli, with sources claiming the meeting went “very well” after he supposedly filmed a secret audition late last year.
The source has also said that nothing official has been confirmed, leaving fans to speculate over who might be next to step into the famous spy’s shoes.
Express.co.uk have contacted Aaron and Barbara’s representatives for comment.
