Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Sam Taylor-Johnson Quotes About Their Age Gap

Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Sam Taylor-Johnson’s love is ageless.

The Fall Man actor met Sam when she directed him within the 2009 John Lennon biopic Nowhere Boy and the twosome wed in 2012. The couple later welcomed two kids collectively, Wylda and Romy Hero, born in 2010 and 2012, respectively. (Aaron can be stepdad of Sam’s kids Angelica and Jessie from her earlier marriage to artwork vendor Jay Joplin.)

Because the duo had been born greater than 20 years aside, their relationship has repeatedly come beneath public scrutiny, nevertheless, Aaron and Sam aren’t right here for all of the discourse.

“What you gotta notice is that what most individuals had been doing of their twenties, I used to be doing after I was 13,” Aaron revealed in his April/Might 2024 Rolling Stone UK cowl story. “You’re doing one thing too shortly for another person? I don’t perceive that. What pace are you imagined to get pleasure from life at? It’s weird to me.”

Preserve scrolling to listen to every part Aaron and Sam have mentioned about their love and age distinction:

The Fascination Was ‘Fairly Intense’ on the Starting

In April 2024, Sam advised BBC Radio 4’s This Cultural Life that there was extra curiosity in her and Aaron’s relationship once they first bought collectively.

“And that form of fascination, as a result of he’s youthful than me, which , we couldn’t actually fathom the fascination,” she shared with the outlet, including that the hypothesis has “gone away” for essentially the most half. “Largely after I’m doing press and issues like this it form of resurges a little bit bit. However yeah, I suppose folks wish to perceive issues once they can’t. They wish to decide aside once they can’t fathom what a sure love story that doesn’t slot in a field is.”

It’s “By no means” Been an Problem

When requested in April 2024 whether or not age ever comes up in her marriage to Aaron, Sam advised The Guardian, “It by no means does. I imply, it’s arising now since you’re asking.”

She defined that the couple’s age distinction “comes up on the skin perspective of people that don’t know us, as a result of I suppose folks will all the time … We’re a little bit of an anomaly.” Nonetheless, after 14 years collectively, Sam confessed, “You simply assume, ‘Certainly by now it doesn’t actually matter?’”

Sam famous that her means to drown out the noise has helped her keep related to Aaron. “If I had been cynical for a second, it wouldn’t have labored,” she mentioned. “If I had questioned something, it could by no means have labored.”

The filmmaker added: “I’ve gone toes first into every part in my life. I’m all the time, ‘This appears wonderful’, and I leap straight in and undergo the expertise, whether or not good or unhealthy. It’s undoubtedly a ‘F–ok it, let’s go along with it’ method. And I’m a terrific believer that the guts overrides every part. Love conquers all.”

Slamming Down Critics

“You’re doing one thing too shortly for another person? I don’t perceive that,” Aaron mentioned in his April/Might 2024 Rolling Stone UK cowl story. “What pace are you imagined to get pleasure from life at? It’s weird to me.”

Working Collectively on Movies

“There’s a protectiveness I really feel; I feel it’s actually troublesome,” Aaron mentioned in his April/Might 2024 Rolling Stone UK cowl story on his working relationship with Sam following their collaboration on the 2019 movie A Million Little Items. “There’s additionally a part of me that looks like if one thing didn’t work, I’m the one which’s accountable.”

They Share a Particular “Connection”

“He was very intense and completely thoughts made-up [about us dating],” Sam mentioned to the U.Okay.’s Sunday Instances in 2017. “I actually discovered my soulmate. I really feel so blessed: day by day I get up glad. We spend each minute of the day collectively.”

Getting Irritated Over Criticism

“However having to take care of that early in my profession in all probability bought me to a spot the place I can extra shortly go, ‘Oh, f–ok it’ as an alternative of wanting to tear somebody’s head off for asking questions I don’t like,” Aaron mentioned in a 2017 interview with New York Magazine.

Not ‘Analyzing’ Their Marriage

“I simply know that it really works. I simply really feel safe and cherished and secure. Now we have this very deep connection. We’re simply in sync,” Aaron mentioned to Mr. Porter in 2017.

Sam, for her half, added: “If I gave a second thought to different folks, I’d be the unhappiest individual, in all probability nonetheless in a depressing marriage. Individuals like to speak about it. I’m like, ‘Yeah, but it surely works higher than my final marriage.’ It [has] lasted longer than a variety of my buddies’ marriages.”

Not Understanding the Discourse

When requested about movies just like the plot of Might December and The Thought of You, which each characteristic age-gap relationships, Sam shared that she and Aaron aren’t thinking about watching these forms of films as a result of age doesn’t matter if you’re with the one you like.

“I feel Aaron would say the identical. Neither of us take a look at one another in that method. It’s only a connection of souls and hearts and our life is our life the place we’re simply transferring by way of it in a stunning loving method,” she mentioned in a Might 2024 interview with Time. “When folks make movies, or discuss it or query it or dissect it, it’s so unusual to me. When folks fall in love, they fall in love.”