His work in the film is smouldering, witty, blase. “Yeah, well, he’s a civilian, isn’t he?” He gives an unimpressed sniff.Īaron Taylor-Johnson as Quicksilver and Elizabeth Olsen as Scarlet Witch in Avengers: Age of Ultron. I tell him I thought that was a nice touch.
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Despite being in the company of the extravagantly costumed Iron Man, Captain America and Thor, the character spends most of the film in a crummy tracksuit that suggests Avengers: Age of Primark. He could clean your entire flat in the time it takes you to scribble “Clean flat” on your to-do list. Taylor-Johnson plays Quicksilver, who, as his name suggests, zips everywhere at lightning speed. For this I had white hair.” By “this” he means Avengers: Age of Ultron, the Marvel extravaganza he is obediently promoting.
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On Godzilla I was military: cropped hair, clean-shaven. But his stern good looks shine through every disguise. “I looked like Gene Wilder gone wrong,” he says. Photographed when his wife was collecting her OBE, he sported a waxed moustache and a kind of blond triangular wimple made of hair. “That was nice because I have really curly hair and also I’m Jewish,” he explains.Īt 24, he is a handsome man, though on screen he has been nerdy (as a DIY crimefighter in the Kick-Ass movies), dapper (Count Vronsky in Anna Karenina), baby-faced (the young John Lennon in Nowhere Boy) and blissed-out (a dreadlocked drug-dealer in Savages). But that’s not why I’m doing this.” He liked it recently when someone said he resembled a fashionable Hasidic Jew. “I got into beards right in the middle of the hipster boom. He wants to make it clear, though, that this is no hipster hangover – as if his black leather jacket and stiff dark-blue jeans didn’t convey that message already. Guys saying to one another: ‘Dude, I saw you two weeks ago, what the fuck? That’s some serious growth you’ve got going on there. “I’ve seen some pretty impressive beards from some young lads. He has noticed a lot of face fuzz in Los Angeles, where he lives with his wife, the artist and director Sam Taylor-Johnson, and their children (two daughters, aged four and three another two, aged 16 and eight, from her previous marriage to the art dealer Jay Jopling). Then he says something strange: “It’s real.” I hadn’t thought that it wasn’t.
He looks pleased to have it acknowledged. I compliment him on it – the lustre, the density. The term “face-furniture” would be underselling this bad boy it’s more like a three-piece suite. Glossy, thick and caviar-coloured, it seems to precede him by several seconds. T he first thing I notice when I meet Aaron Taylor-Johnson is his beard.