Aaron Taylor-Johnson in March 2024. Photo: Getty
If the latest tabloid reports are to be believed, Aaron Taylor-Johnson is being measured tuxedo and learning how to use a Walther PPK as he prepares to play James Bond.
The 33-year-old Nowhere Boy and Kick-Ass star is eager to take Daniel Craig's place as MI's most famous secret agent. 6 in the 26th Bond film. «Bond is Aaron's job if he wants to take it,» an anonymous source told The Sun. “The official proposal is on the table and they are waiting for a response.”
Taylor-Johnson, for his part, has had to fight such rumors for years and always plays fair. “I find it fascinating and wonderful that people see me in this role,” he said in an interview last week. “I take that as a great compliment.”
Becoming Bond marked a significant rise for Taylor-Johnson, who began acting in commercials when he was six and made his first stage appearance in London's West End at age eight. The actor, who was then just old Aaron Johnson, burst onto the scene playing a young John Lennon in Nowhere Boy, a biopic about a young John Lennon. More famous than the film itself is the romance it ignited between its title character, then 18, and Sam Taylor-Wood, the director 23 years his senior. Exactly a year later, he proposed to her and changed his name.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson with his wife Sam Taylor-Wood, 2009 Photo: Getty
Taylor-Johnson's lifestyle isn't very 007-like. When he's not acting, he lives with his wife and four daughters, Wilda, 13, and Romy, 11, as well as daughters from his wife's first marriage to the artist. dealer Jay Jopling. Angelique, 25, and Jessie, 17, live on a farm near Bruton, Somerset. The village has been nicknamed «the new Notting Hill» due to its famous residents, including Stella McCartney, Sir Cameron Mackintosh and George Osborne.
In interviews he gives from time to time, the actor raves about his love of nature and seems more interested in his vegetable garden than amassing a fleet of Aston Martins or a collection of Omega watches. “I grew up on a very poor diet. It wasn’t until later that I started to love cooking and love the ingredients,” he told Harper’s Bazaar last month. “They have to be fresh and organic. I have a garden and I'm going to get some chickens for fresh eggs.»
Aaron Taylor-Johnson with Chloe Moretz in movie «Kick-Ass»
His produce includes cabbage and pumpkins, and he also keeps chickens, two pigs, a couple of cows and bees. “This is what I love to do,” he said. “I have pigs. I have bees!” When tending the hives, he doesn't wear a beekeeper's suit or use smoke to control them. “Luckily I didn’t get stung,” he said. “They're pretty calm. I stay calm and they see that energy.”
Taylor-Johnson gets up at 6am every day and meditates for up to 20 minutes before working out for an hour. Then he makes breakfast for his children and attends to school. Acting, the job that made him a millionaire, seems to tire him. “It doesn’t feed my soul,” he once said. “I like the normality of things, everyday things. Getting my kids ready in the morning, taking them to school and activities is enough. It feeds my soul.»
Aaron Taylor-Johnson as John Lennon in Nowhere Boy
He also appears to be an accomplished baker: his film Nocturnal Animals director Tom Ford says his cherry pie is «the best cherry pie you'll ever eat» while he was baking sourdough bread for his co-star Based on the film «Bullet Train» by Brian Tyree. Henry. «I thought, 'I can never repay you with bread because I don't know a damn thing about how yeast works,'» Henry told Esquire last year.
Taylor-Johnson is one of Hollywood's most unusual stars. In Brad Pitt's 2022 film Bullet Train, about a former assassin battling other assassins on a Japanese railroad, Taylor-Johnson played the Mandarin, the twin of «Henry the Lemon.» So, during filming in Los Angeles, Taylor-Johnson bought his partner a lemon tree.
“The fool went and got a real lemon tree,” Henry said, “and planted it between our trailers. Throughout the film, we were able to observe and cherish this tree. I'm like, «What the hell are you thinking about?» But he made me water this plant, spray the leaves. This is Aaron. He was like, “We'll figure out how to deal with this together.”
Aaron Taylor-Johnson with Brad Pitt in the movie » Bullet train.» Photo: Scott Garfield
If he had gotten the role, Taylor-Johnson would have been the first Jewish 007. He was open about his religious affiliation and enjoyed being described as a fashionable Hasidic Jew. «It was nice because I have very curly hair and I'm Jewish,» he told The Guardian in 2015.
Source Eon spent much of Tuesday pouring cold water on the story. saying that there is «The rumors are not true», although the production company does not directly deny this. Sources close to the star claim that he was not hired for this role.
Debbie McWilliams, the legendary casting director who brought Craig, Pierce Brosnan and Timothy Dalton to the franchise, says she thinks Taylor-Johnson is unlikely to get the nod. “In 40-plus years of working on Bond, I’ve never read a single prediction that came true,” she says. “Not a single one.”
It would be a surprise if Taylor-Johnson's casting were announced in the coming days, especially since just three weeks ago, Barbara Broccoli, the woman behind the franchise, said she had no updates on the franchise's 26th installment. «I can't tell you anything about the next Bond movie,» she told trade site Deadline last month. «There is nothing. Nothing is happening yet.»
A cynic might suggest that the story of Taylor-Johnson becoming the next Bond at this time benefits one person above all: Taylor-Johnson. His next big project is a starring role in Kraven the Hunter, a Marvel film about one of Spider-Man's enemies. The superhero genre has been struggling lately, with the latest installment in the franchise, Madame Web, bombing critics and the box office. The latest burst of publicity may make moviegoers even more interested in Craven.
«I can only talk about what I'm going to show and tell,» he recently told Rolling Stone UK. “I don’t feel like I need to build a future. I feel like whatever they draw for me, I can damn well make it better.”
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