Added new photos of Aaron Taylor-Johnson attending the Giorgio Armani fashion show during the Milan Fashion Week Womenswear Fall/Winter 2024-2025 on February 25, 2024 in Milan, Italy.
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Added new photos of Aaron Taylor-Johnson attending the Charles Finch & Chanel 2024 Pre-BAFTA Party at 5 Hertford Street on February 17, 2024 in London, England.
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Aaron Taylor-Johnson has found his next role in David Mackenzie‘s heist thriller “Fuze,” which Anton will launch at the European Film Market in Berlin this month.
The film reunites Taylor-Johnson and “Hell or High Water” helmer Mackenzie, who last worked together on 2018’s “Outlaw King.” With a script from Ben Hopkins, “Fuze” “opens on the discovery of an unexploded World War II bomb in a London construction site, sparking a mass evacuation – the perfect cover for a heist,” according to the film’s synopsis.
Taylor-Johnson’s stacked project lineup currently includes the headlining role in Marvel’s “Kraven and the Hunter,” due out in August; “The Fall Guy” alongside Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt; and Robert Eggers’ highly anticipated “Nosferatu.” Mackenzie’s 2016 neo-Western “Hell or High Water” scored four Oscar noms, including best picture, and he’s also set to direct “Relay” starring Lily James, Riz Ahmed and Sam Worthington.
“Tension is one of the purest emotions that cinema can create. I had the idea of combining all the high stakes of an unexploded bomb with that of a bank robbery — clashing these two genres to create as much pressure as possible — in a context that feels as real as possible,” Mackenzie said in a statement. “Ben Hopkins took those ingredients and cooked up the compelling script that we are now taking into production.”
“Fuze” is produced by Gillian Berrie (“Outlaw King,” “Tetris”) for Sigma Films as well as Sebastien Raybaud (“The End We Start From,” “Greenland”) and Callum Grant (“Jackdaw,” “Cleaner”) for Anton. “Hell or High Water” cinematographer Giles Nuttgens has joined the creative team as director of photography.
Anton is financing “Fuze” and selling the world rights at EFM, where the company will present a sizzle reel. UTA Independent Film Group and WME Independent co-rep the U.S. rights with Anton.
“Together, David Mackenzie and DP Giles Nuttgens are dynamos. Just add Aaron Taylor-Johnson and we have the Midas touch for this whirlwind movie,” Berrie said. “I cannot wait!”
Added Raybaud and Grant, “David is uniquely talented at pairing large-scale filmmaking with truly unique characters. ‘Fuze’ melds the relentless tension of a bomb movie to the heist genre. Buckle up!”
Taylor-Johnson is repped by Brillstein Entertainment Partners, WME and Sloane, Offer, Weber and Dern, LLP. Mackenzie is repped by UTA, United Agents in London, and Alan Wertheimer and Kim Jaime. Berrie is repped by UTA, United Agents in London, and Alan Wertheimer and Kim Jaime. Nuttgens is repped by UTA.
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Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Armani Beauty’s newest fragrance ambassador, revealed to The Hollywood Reporter that since becoming a parent, his workout time has doubled as his “unwinding time.” Johnson and his wife, 50 Shades of Grey director Sam Taylor-Johnson, share two daughters. Johnson is also stepfather to two of Taylor-Johnson’s children from her previous marriage.
“Almost weirdly, I think my workout time kind of is my unwinding time, in a way, because it’s my time, which feels very rare these days,” Johnson explained. “I mean, you’ve got kids [too], you’re a parent,” he said, referring to the interviewer. “If you get an hour and a half yourself, it feels very much like a wind-down time because you’re able to have your own thoughts for a minute and decompress and sort of set yourself straight again and realign yourself.”
Johnson explained his daily fitness routine, revealing he’s exchanged extended workouts for relaxed, introspective activities that allow him to be more present in everyday life. “I meditate for about 10 to 20 minutes every morning. I get up about 5:30 or 6 am, then I’ll go work out for an hour, and then I’ll get my kids up and make breakfast and take them to school,” he said. “I love cooking and I love vegetable gardening and all those sorts of things. Sort of active and also just being immersed in an outdoors lifestyle.”
Johnson admitted that getting “the opportunity to fly around the world and meet new people” can be “very glamorous,” but is ultimately a bit hollow. He feels most at peace when he leaves the noise of Hollywood and returns to his family and their country estate. There, he keeps an admirable garden and a cadre of farm animals.
“I have got kale and things like that, and I had pumpkins last season,” Johnson recounted. “It’s very seasonal sort of stuff. I have chickens, I have two pigs, I’ve got two cows. I very much have sort of a homestead.”
He continued: “When I’m home and I’m in the countryside, which I call home, is when I feel like that’s my grounding. That’s my place where I can put my feet in the earth and feel grounded. I’m very [grounded] when I’m outside.”
Despite his love of staying home, Johnson has a busy 2024 ahead. He’ll be appearing opposite Ryan Reynolds in The Fall Guy, out May 3; as the title character in Kraven the Hunter (August 30); along with a decorated ensemble in Rothko, directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson (October 25); and in Robert Eggers’ anticipated remake of Nosferatu (December 25).
Johnson’s Acqua di Giò men’s fragrance campaign kicks off on February 16, but you can see some exclusive snaps over at The Hollywood Reporter.
