by HANNAH LACK
Photography by Chat Pitman
From ‘Nowhere Boy’ to family man, newlywed actor Aaron Taylor-Johnson has blossomed into adulthood with maturity and grace. Over tea with Hannah Lack, the ‘Savages’ heartthrob and star of this fall’s big-screen adaptation of ‘Anna Karenina’ explains how what started with a bowl of moldy peaches turned into the greatest love he’s ever known. Styling by Anders Sølvsten Thomsen.
Ten minutes uphill from London’s Camden Town, the pubs serving flat beer to teenage goths dissolve into affluent Georgian terraces. On a quiet Friday afternoon in leafy Primrose Hill, there are only a couple of solitary drinkers around to notice 22-year-old Aaron Johnson as he strolls into the airy bar of the boutique hotel York & Albany, clad in faded jeans, a blue T-shirt, and week-old stubble, his cat-green eyes framed by a wild mess of corkscrew hair. Taking a seat beside floor-to- ceiling windows facing Regent’s Park, Johnson’s appearance provides two clues to the status of his fecund love life, onscreen and off: the traces of blond dye that color the tips of his brown curls are souvenirs, left over from reenacting a passionate, doomed affair as the Russian aristocrat Count Vronsky opposite Keira Knightley’s Anna Karenina in Joe Wright’s adaptation of the 19th-century Tolstoy classic. Then there’s the conspicuous new ring, encircling the fourth finger of his left hand, announcing his recent marriage to celebrated British artist and filmmaker Sam Taylor-Wood. (From this point on, Johnson will be referred to in this story by his new name, Aaron Taylor-Johnson.)
Despite his real-life love story, playing a romantic lead onscreen makes the actor squirm. Throughout a varied career that has encompassed roles as a malevolent teenage bully (BBC’s Feather Boy), a troubled young musician (Nowhere Boy), a marijuana- dealing Buddhist (Savages), and a high school loser–turned–goofball vigilante (Kick-Ass), Taylor-Johnson has consciously sidestepped the typecasting that tends to come with his genetic lottery–won good looks. “Playing the love interest is not really my comfort zone,” he admits. “It shouldn’t just be about the way you look. I prefer not to be all groomed up and suave; I find that cheesy as fuck. I wanted to play Count Vronsky balding, with a few more of his own issues.” When it comes to experimenting with his roles, he’s fearless, “like nobody I’ve ever worked with,” says Knightley of their collaboration on Anna Karenina. “He just threw himself into it. He works in a really physical way. He’s got this incredible quality of being unbelievably wise for his years, and then the next second he’ll be like a complete puppy, jumping off the walls. It’s the best combination.”
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