Sam Taylor-Johnson is 58 years old and a film director. Now, her name is not usually on the front page of the social chronicle for her work in the film field -despite having not stopped working on different projects during the last two decades-, but for her relationship with her husband, the renowned actor Aaron Taylor-Johnson.
The reason, the 24 years of age that separate them. The British actor will turn 34 on June 13, and there is a lot of fascination with the relationship that united the two since they met on the set of Nowhere Boy (2009), when he was only 18 years old and She had just divorced her first husband and father of her oldest daughters, Jay Jopling.
According to some witnesses at that time, the love between director and actor was immediate. They behaved like teenagers in love and, from that moment on, they became inseparable. “I’m an old soul and she’s a young soul,” Aaron says in an interview with People in May 2009.
Much was said about the young actor dating a woman who could be his mother. Almost two decades have passed since then, they have two daughters together -Wylda Rae (13) and Romy Hero (12)-. and the film director still does not understand the reason for the fascination of her relationship with her current husband, whom she married in 2012 in the picturesque British town of Somerset.
The director and her husband have always been extremely discreet about their private lives, and she can’t believe the “fascination” people have with the age difference between her and her husband. The film admits that people’s initial interest in the relationship was “intense” because “people want to understand things when they can’t understand them.”
In an interview with BBC Radio 4’s This Cultural Life, the director revealed that they were now living a little more peacefully, since interest in their relationship had “disappeared a little” after 14 years of marriage. “People want to understand art when they can’t understand that a love story can’t fit into a certain pattern.”
“We are kind of an anomaly, but one would think that after 14 years, it probably doesn’t matter at this point, right?” says the film director, who has worked on films such as Fifty Shades of Gray (2015), A Million Little Pieces (2018) or, currently, Rothko and Back to Black, the controversial Amy Winehouse biopic.
In 2017, Sam Taylor-Johnson told the Hollywood Reporter that “if I thought twice about other people, I would be the unhappiest person, probably still in a miserable marriage. People like to talk about that. I’m like, ‘Yeah.’ , but it works better than my last marriage.’ It has lasted longer than many of my friends’ marriages.”
