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Sam and Aaron Taylor-Johnson Made Their First-Ever Red Carpet Appearance

Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Sam Taylor-Johnson have been married since 2012.

The pair met back in 2008 on the set of Sam’s directorial debut, Nowhere Boy. She was 42 at the time, while Aaron was 18.

They swiftly got engaged just a year after meeting and welcomed two daughters before their wedding: Wylda, 14, and Romy, 12.

Sam also has two daughters from her previous marriage to art dealer Jay Jopling: Angelica, who is just six years younger than Aaron, and Jessie, who recently turned 18.

A couple of months ago, Aaron shared a rare photo with Jessie in honor of her 18th birthday. “18 now ..still my babygirl,” he wrote over the picture.

This week, Aaron — who publicly refers to Angelica and Jessie as his daughters — was supported by them and Sam at the New York City premiere of his new movie, Kraven the Hunter.

The four stepped out at the Dec. 10 event and posed for several photos, marking the first time that Angelica and Jessie have appeared at a premiere with both their mom and stepdad.

Of course, Sam and Aaron also posed for a bunch of photos together at the premiere.

The rare group red carpet appearance comes months after Sam and Aaron separately defended their 23-year age gap amid long-running scrutiny.

Back in May, Sam said she finds conversations centered around age gaps “strange.”

“When people make films or talk about it or question it or dissect it, it is so strange to me,” she said of age gaps. “When people fall in love, they fall in love.”

Speaking more directly of her and Aaron’s marriage, Sam recalled, “Everyone at the beginning said, ‘It’s a terrible idea, it’s not gonna work,’ and then you’re, like, 15 years down the road and have raised four kids and you’re like, ‘Really?’”

A couple of months prior, Aaron seemingly defended getting married to Sam so young.

When asked about being “judged about doing things at certain ages,” Aaron told Rolling Stone UK, “What you gotta realize is that what most people were doing in their 20s, I was doing when I was 13.”

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by Anonymousreply 21December 14, 2024 4:03 PM

She's a creepy child molester.

A 42 year old hag going after an 18 year old boy?

Fucking disgusting.

by Anonymousreply 1December 12, 2024 9:25 AM

GROOMER.

by Anonymousreply 2December 12, 2024 9:25 AM

Harold and Maude situation

by Anonymousreply 3December 12, 2024 9:29 AM

It's definitely odd. It wouldn't be if they met now, but I'm 42 and I couldn't imagine dating an 18 year old now... I know it's legal, but 18 year olds are basically children.

by Anonymousreply 4December 12, 2024 9:52 AM

Also, if you look at the photo of Sam, Aaron and her children - you'd think it was a mother with her children.

by Anonymousreply 5December 12, 2024 9:56 AM

[quote]Aaron told Rolling Stone UK, “What you gotta realize is that what most people were doing in their 20s, I was doing when I was 13.”

Disquieting.

by Anonymousreply 6December 12, 2024 10:13 AM

trashy

by Anonymousreply 7December 12, 2024 10:18 AM

Groomed. It's weird and along the lines of the 31 year old teacher and 13 year old student.

by Anonymousreply 8December 12, 2024 10:21 AM

Shades of Mary Kay Letourneau and her 13 year old student Vili Fualaau

by Anonymousreply 9December 12, 2024 10:27 AM

I´m not as disturbed by this as so many seem to be. For me it´s less a question of the age difference than the timing at first glance.

2008: They met when she was 42 he was 18

2008-2012: They were engaged and had two children.

2012: They married when she was 46 and he was 22

2024: They have been together almost 17 years and married for almost 13 years

While I would argue that 18 or19 is too young for anyone to get engaged and commence having kids, and further that 22 is also quite young to get married, this man didn't exactly fall off a turnip truck. Even if he had done, somewhere between age 18 and 34 he's had ample opportunity to see some of the world outside and reconsider his early relationship and marriage. But there he is, still in the same place17 years later (even as his career success has grown.) Odd as it may look on the surface, it seems to have worked for them.

The average length of marriage ending in divorce in the US is 8 years (the US where 27 states allow marriage at 16 or under), in the UK it's 12.4 years, and Ecuador and Germany top the longeivity average at 14.7 and 15 years. These two in their oddball pairing have bettered the averages for marriage in the US and UK by a wide margin and are the equal of the highest averages for length of marriage elsewhere.

I've know more than a few 80-sometihng year old gay men with a bit of money who traded in their pool boys or gardeners or assistants or business partner in some bogus little venture everytime the young men started to become less decorative or more difficult. The luckier ones were put through chiropractic school or set up with a restaurant business or some legitimate situation. Others just disappeared and were replaced without explanation or further mention. The Taylor-Johnson relationship doesn't seem to have much in common with the classic boytoy model, either straight or gay versions.

If you want to say that she bewitched and beguiled a poor innocent, I think you´d have to agree that her talent in the Dark Arts must be really fucking strong to keep him around and under her spell for 17 years.

Good for them. Unconventional isn't always wrong.

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by Anonymousreply 10December 12, 2024 11:00 AM

Stop making excuses for her predatory behavior, R10.

You're trying to rationalize it, but what it comes down to is a 42 year old woman grooming and having sex with an 18 year old boy.

That is just WRONG.

It would be wrong for a 42 year old man to do this to an 18 year old girl, and it's equally wrong in the reverse situation.

She is a PREDATOR, plain and simple.

by Anonymousreply 11December 12, 2024 11:05 AM

[quote]“What you gotta realize is that what most people were doing in their 20s, I was doing when I was 13.”

women can be such pigs

by Anonymousreply 12December 12, 2024 11:13 AM

r11, unclutch your pearls. in what universe do you live where an 18 year old is considered a child? I'm talking legally here.

by Anonymousreply 13December 12, 2024 11:14 AM

People really don’t understand this marriage when it’s actually quite simple.

Taylor-Johnson is neurodivergent and he selected for a partner a high-functioning neurotypical person who tells him what to do. She is literally a director. The term for this is “neurotypical caretaker.” The fact that he chose someone old enough to be his mother underlies his dependence on her.

See also:

(Why hasn’t he left this relic yet? He will once he finds someone willing to do everything for him.)

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by Anonymousreply 14December 12, 2024 11:58 AM

[quote] People really don’t understand this marriage when it’s actually quite simple.

[quote] Taylor-Johnson is neurodivergent and he selected for a partner a high-functioning neurotypical person who tells him what to do. She is literally a director.

We'll remember this argument the next time a 40 year old man is caught with a 16 or 17 year old girl.

"Don't worry, they're both neurodivergent! Everything is fine."

Dumb shit groomer apologist.

by Anonymousreply 15December 12, 2024 12:04 PM

Project your 'GROOMER' and 'PREDATOR' and 'child molester' accusations as much as you like, OP/R11. The fact remains that they have been in a relationship for almost 17 years, or almost half his life. He's now 34, she's now 57. And he doesn't apear to be under duress, heavily sedated, under hypnosis, or speaking as if he has a knife held at his back.

You think she warped his mind? corrupted a young adult? continues to hold him under a svenghali spell for nearly 17 years? holds him as a financial/career captive? that he's a victim of Stockholm Syndrome? [insert other popular armchair psychiatriac conditions here]

I had plenty of sex at age 18 (and younger) with men who were in their 20s, 30s, 40s. And without the experience of a then 11-year stage and screen career under my belt, not one of them ever put me under his spell, or convinced me to change my life. None groomed me. None molested me. None did anything I wasn't itching to do BEFORE having met them. None tried to instigate a relationship. While any of those unsavory things MIGHT have happened, they don't happen to me. And they don't happen to every 18 year old man who fucks around with someone twice his age or more.

I think age gap relationships that start that young (for one partner) deserve a measure of caution. Not all of them are built on equality and shared feelings. But not all people are built of the same stuff.

by Anonymousreply 16December 12, 2024 12:06 PM

The age of consent in the UK is 16. While age gap relationships might be disapproved of socially, there's nothing paedophilic or grooming about it.

by Anonymousreply 17December 12, 2024 12:11 PM

True love!

by Anonymousreply 18December 12, 2024 12:16 PM

[quote]We'll remember this argument the next time a 40 year old man is caught with a 16 or 17 year old girl.

Again this is why we (neurodivergents) look down on you (neurotypicals). The inability to understand the difference between apples and oranges.

by Anonymousreply 19December 12, 2024 12:28 PM

Kraven has a 15% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Sorry, Aaron!

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by Anonymousreply 20December 14, 2024 3:36 PM

She is such a lucky bitch. I am forever jealous of her.

by Anonymousreply 21December 14, 2024 4:03 PM
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