Aaron Taylor-Johnson

7.0/7

'The Big Cheese'

Based on 1 reviews of 1 performances

Born

13 June 1990

Birthplace

High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England, UK

Nationality

Age

Children

About

Aaron Taylor-Johnson is a slow-aged Gouda: smooth on the surface, with a harder grain beneath. His performances often begin with ease, then let tension gather in the smallest shifts of voice and physicality. Nowhere Boy is an early measure of that control. As John Lennon, he gives the young musician a restless wit without making the performance a mere imitation. In Kick-Ass, he makes awkwardness part of the action, letting the hero’s bravado sit beside his uncertainty. The contrast has a clean bite. Nocturnal Animals is the sharper turn. Taylor-Johnson makes a menacing drifter unsettling through his grin, his loose movements and the sense that he is enjoying the room’s discomfort. In Bullet Train, he shifts into a lighter register, playing comic timing against the film’s brisk momentum. The work keeps its warmth, but there are crystals of steel in it: slow-aged Gouda, with more edge than the first taste suggests.

Highest rated review

Ray Marcus

Nocturnal Animals

2016

7/7

last month

Perfectly disgusting and evil! I have never seen an actor embody a villain like Taylor-Johnson did here. Constantly thinking back on and revisiting this performance - and would genuinely be afraid to come across the character of Ray even in a brightly lit busy alley. His character has one of the best jumpscares I’ve ever seen in a movie period (and this isn’t even a horror movie!). Excellency all around and a masterclass in embodying a character.