Standing by their love story. Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Sam Taylor-Johnson have defended their relationship — and their age gap — through the years.The couple originally met when Aaron auditioned for Sam’s directional debut, Nowhere Boy.
According to the England native, her now-husband didn’t have much availability due to his Kick-Ass filming schedule, so he auditioned at her home.“It was so inconvenient,” Sam, who was going through a divorce with Jay Jopling at the time, recalled during a 2017 interview with The Sunday Times UK. “In the end, I was like, ‘OK, he’ll have to come to my home.’ I opened my door to John Lennon.
I instantly knew he was the guy.”The director noted that she shared a “connection” with Aaron while they worked on the project together, saying, “He was very intense and absolutely mind made-up [about us dating].”In 2009, the pair announced that they were engaged and expanded their family with two daughters. (Sam, for her part, was already a mom to two kids with Jopling.)“I knew instantly that I wanted to spend the rest of my life with this person,” the Anna Karenina star told The Telegraph UK 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 2012 nuptials, Aaron and Sam changed their last names to the joint Taylor-Johnson variation.
The Marvel star said it was important for him to see his new moniker in the credits of his upcoming films.“Actually, I wanted it on Savages as well, but they told me the posters had already gone out.
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