Aaron Taylor Johnson and wife Sam share a kiss.Photo:Aaron Taylor Johnson/Instagram
Aaron Taylor Johnson/Instagram
Aaron Taylor-Johnsonis honoring wifeSam Taylor-Johnsonon her special day.
As the British filmmaker turned 58 on Tuesday, March 4, her actor husband shared a carousel of sun-drenched images tohis Instagram grid, led with one of his wife doing a poolside split.
“đź’•Happy Birthday gorgeous! ❤️ Love spending every moment with you đź’šđź’›,” Aaron, 34, wrote in the caption of his post, on which his wife commented, “❤️❤️I love you ❤️❤️.”
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Sam and Aaron first met when he was auditioning to play a youngJohn Lennonin her directorial debut about the musician’s early life,Nowhere Boy,back in 2008, and got engaged in 2009.
Over the years, the filmmaker andKraven the Hunteractor have had to navigate the chatter around their age difference.
“I guess that interest was more when we got together, which was now 14 years — at the beginning, was quite intense,” Sam previously said on BBC Radio 4’sThis Cultural Life.
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Aaron Taylor Johnson and wife Sam.Aaron Taylor Johnson/Instagram
Sam and Aaron are parents to daughterWylda, born in 2010, and daughterRomy, born in 2012, the same year they wed. TheFifty Shades of Greydirector also shares two older daughters,Angelica and Jessie, with ex-husband Jay Jopling.
Aaron toldEsquirein an August 2023 interview that he doesn’t enjoy filming back-to-back projects that keep him away from home, assmall moments with his daughtersare what he values most.
​​"I enjoy the normality of things, the everyday stuff," he told the outlet. “Getting my kids ready in the mornings, taking them to school and activities — that’s plenty.Thatfeeds my soul.”
Of his decision to turn down major blockbuster roles early on in his career, theNosferatuactor added, “I wanted, purely, to be with my babies … I didn’t want to be taken away from them.”
source: people.com