Hollywood boasts no shortage of romances with significant age gaps, but few of these celebrity couples have held on quite as long as Aaron Taylor-Johnson, 33, and Sam Taylor-Johnson, 56, who celebrated their 11-year wedding anniversary in June 2023.
Yes, your math is right. The Kick-Ass actor and James Bond contender met the director on the set of their movie Nowhere Boy in 2008, when he was reportedly 18 years old. Though both claim there was “no funny business at all” during filming, he proposed a year later and jumped right into coparenting Sam’s two daughters from a previous marriage. Before exchanging wedding vows in 2012, Aaron and Sam welcomed two children of their own, for a total of four daughters: Angelica, 25, Jessie Phoenix, 16, Wylda Rae, 13, and Romy Hero, 11.
Over a decade later, despite unsubstantiated cheating rumors that went viral in January 2023, the pair seem happier than ever on social media—though Aaron doesn’t seem to like talking about his marriage in interviews. “I’ve got really nothing to hide, and I’m secure in what we have,” he told Esquire in an interview published in August 2023. “But I’m not going to unlock things that are actually precious to me.”
Here’s a complete timeline of Sam and Aaron Taylor-Johnson’s controversial relationship.
2008: Eighteen-year-old Aaron Johnson meets 42-year-old Sam Taylor-Wood when he sits down with the director to discuss his interest in playing young John Lennon in her pre-Beatles film Nowhere Boy. The pair would later claim, in a rare joint interview with Harper’s Bazaar in 2019, that there was “no funny business at all” during filming.
In September 2008, Taylor-Wood (now Taylor-Johnson) also announces her split from her then husband Jay Jopling after 11 years of marriage. They share two daughters, Angelica and Jessie.
2009: Aaron proposes to Sam “exactly one year to the minute” after they met. “As soon as we finished [filming], he told me he was going to marry me,” Sam told Harper’s Bazaar. “We had never been on a date, or even kissed.”
May 17, 2009: The pair attend a Cannes Film Festival party for Nowhere Boy.
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