..to find Aaron Taylor Johnson and his wife super creepy?

[insidenumber9]

Just this really. He was a 16 year old child actor when they met, and she was his director and in her 40s. It’s so sad. Maybe I’m projecting as had a bad relationship with an older man as a teen, but I feel she stole his childhood.

That photo of her with him, he looks young enough to be her son.
Just creepy whether it is a man/woman doing it. Philip Schofield met that young Irish lad when he was really young and kept in touch with him and then got him the job at Good Morning show. All grooming and just not right.

You don't fall in love without an actual effort to spend time and get to know someone. If you, as an adult, start getting feelings for a teenager, you as the adult can stop it.

I saw him in something the other night and looked him up as thought I remembered him from somewhere. I remember DD being shocked about him being with a much older woman as she had a thing about him from Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging when she was a teen!

I agree it seemed to be a big power imbalance when they got together, and certainly would have made me 🤮to get with a boy (and he was a boy) at her age at the time. They seem happy though.

She seems to be pushing 60 now and he’s in his prime mid 30’s. Must have women throwing themselves at him so must obviously be devoted to her.

Shes creepy. Staying together makes no difference. He was groomed and that stays with you for life. He’ll have a fucked up view of relationships.

If my son was 18 and told me he was in a relationship with a 42 year old woman with two kids I’d be devastated. Just starting out in adult life and all that life in front of him.

No amount of playing it down will ever convince me that they don’t have a very unusual marriage. She always looks like she’s his mother. She just looks as creepy as fuck. Creepy and dopey. I wonder if she’s heavily medicated?

It’s not done his career any harm, being married to a notable artist and film director.

You absolutely can help who you fall in love with. If you're 43 and you start 'falling in love with' an 18 year old then you give your head a wobble, cringe yourself inside out from how embarrassing you find yourself and leave the 18 year old well the fuck alone. You don't marry them and have them make you pregnant within a year.

There's a rumour he had an affair. I wouldn't be surprised. Not that it's ok, but the age difference is stark and while she does look good for her age, and looks aren't everything, the difference between a menopausal woman pushing 60 and a 33 year old man is considerable. Regrets are probably being had.

So it's ok to use your position of power to groom a teenager if you make it worth their while?

@insidenumber9 Yes, I certainly think you’re unreasonable starting a thread with the title that you find the victim of a teenage grooming relationship to be “super creepy”.

He is so young, he really does look like her son

You're not wrong. I keep trying to force myself to find it ok, like if I don't I'm not a proper feminist or something?! If he was a girl it would be fucking grim. Especially with two kids before you're even out of your teens. I just don't see how, in any real sense, there wasn't grooming etc. if he had been 20 plus when they got together I guess it'd be a bit less grim, but gawd. Yeah, I don't like it.

What's feminist about a middle aged woman grooming a teenager? I think you've misunderstood feminism

@PineappleTime sorry, it was meant as a joke! Just as in 'well men have been doing it for years'. I know that's not feminism!

No one has mentioned Elvis yet & his pursuing of the 14 year old Priscilla.

I’m 7 and 9 years older than my stepdaughters but I was 43 when I met their Dad.

I wasn't aware he had such an older wife. I just find him super creepy in his own right!

I really hope he doesn't turn out to be the next Bond as I wouldn't be able to watch him.

Why should they? This isn't a thread about all groomers, there are hundreds in the celebrity world. This is a thread about Sam Taylor wood.

you find it selfish?

1. Their relationship is none of your business
2. Who are you to deem that having a relationship and children selfish
3. Who crowned you arbiter of acceptability

Top CFery here

It's really not all right. You may not be able to control your feelings completely, but you absolutely can control your actions.

People have criticised Celine Dion and Rene Angelil for a very long time -- but she's always defended him. And absolutely no-one would find Elvis and Priscilla acceptable today.

No, just saying I doubt he’s complaining about the situation so why should anyone else?

Here’s an interview from the set, it’s hard to find now but it certainly seems to confirm it was happening on set. She’s a revolting groomer, and majorly arrogant to boot.

“It's a wet March day in Pinner, Harrow, which is doubling up as suburban Liverpool, and the sun is refusing to shine. Taylor-Wood is crouched behind the monitor. With her blond hair plaited over her head and yellow-laced trainers, she looks like a little girl. Whenever the rain comes, she runs inside the house, arm in arm with 19-year-old Aaron Johnson, who plays Lennon. They dance and laugh like teenagers in love. I've never been on a film set with such a strange atmosphere. While the rest of the cast and crew are welcoming, Taylor-Wood and Johnson seem oblivious to the world. They are wearing matching padded jackets - hers has the initials STW stitched into the back, his has AJ. I ask Taylor-Wood if everybody has them. She smiles. "No, only me and Aaron. They all know who the top dogs
are on this set."

50 Shades of Grey? That critically acclaimed masterpiece 😂
He was still 17 when he auditioned for the role in Nowhere Boy apparently 🤮

It’s absolutely wrong. However. I wonder whether it’s predatory grooming or weak neediness in the older woman? Men seem to have a predatory pattern, trading women in for younger models or targeting girls.

Teens with a crush on a successful older person need to be kindly and gently ignored. I wonder whether the Macron couple and this couple come about when the woman gradually gives in to the attention? I am only wondering because as a young women I fell into relationships where the guy was basically flatteringly persistent. I judge my own lack of self esteem pretty harshly now, as those guys were borderline rapey. I wonder whether a woman whose lonely in her marriage and needy would fall for a persistently charming young man.

Her films are shite too. She's a very arrogant woman. I seen a recent interview about the universally panned Amy movie, where she didn't allow Amy's family or friends any input into the film.

It seems like she got all her information from the sun newspaper clippings and cobbled it together. Insulting.