But most will agree that Taylor-Johnson ticks all the boxes as a potential Bond, with his good looks and on-screen charm likely to make him a crowd favourite very quickly.

But what do we know about his wife, Sam Taylor-Johnson, who has watched the actor grow from a teen star to the bona-fide Hollywood celebrity he is today?

Here’s what we know about Aaron Taylor-Johnson’s supportive, much older wife, Sam Taylor-Johnson.

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Sam Taylor-Johnson is a British film director

Her upcoming film, Back to Black, is an Amy Winehouse biopic examining the singer’s life and legacy due for release in May.

She met Aaron Taylor-Johnson when he was a teenager

“It was so inconvenient,” Sam told The Sunday Times of their first encounter. “In the end, I was like, ‘OK, he’ll have to come to my home.’ I opened my door to John Lennon. I instantly knew he was the guy.”

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Per Business Insider, Sam had just split from her husband of 11 years, Jay Jopling, at the time of their first meeting.

They got married in 2012

According to an interview the couple gave to Harper’s Bazaar in 2019, Aaron proposed to her not long after they wrapped up filming. “As soon as we finished, he told me he was going to marry me,” she told the magazine. “We had never been on a date, or even kissed.”

“And a year to the minute after we met, exactly one year to the minute, I got down on one knee and asked her to marry me,” Aaron added.

After welcoming two children together, Aaron, then 22, and Sam, then 45, tied the knot in Somerset, England, in the summer of 2012, per E! News.

They have two children together

Sam and Aaron welcomed their first child, daughter Wylda Rae, in 2010, when the Kick-Ass actor was just 20 years old. They had their second child, daughter Romy Hero, in January 2012, according to Business Insider.

According to US media, Sam has two daughters from her previous marriage, with the oldest being seven years younger than Aaron.

Their controversial age gap …

Their 24-year age gap and the fact that Sam met Aaron while he was still a teenager meant the pair suffered a lot of criticism in the early days of their relationship, with media and netizens alike accusing Sam of “grooming” the actor from a young age.

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But Aaron has remained fiercely protective of his romance with the now 57-year-old. In 2017, he said it wasn’t easy dealing with the public’s response when news of their relationship came out: “The attention was intrusive,” he told New York Magazine. “But having to deal with that early in my career probably got me to a place where I can more quickly just go, ‘Oh, f*** it’ instead of wanting to rip someone’s head off for asking questions I don’t like.”

In another interview in 2019, Aaron told The Telegraph: “I worked in an adult environment from an early age. I had open, direct conversations with directors, producers, actors, where my opinions would be valued and matter. I grew up pretty quickly – I left school at 15. I had a totally different upbringing from my kids,” he said, adding: “When I met Sam I’d already lived a life far beyond that of most of my contemporaries – I didn’t relate to anyone my age. I just feel that we’re on the same wavelength.”