Sam Taylor-Johnson expressed her shock on the ongoing curiosity surrounding the 24-year age hole between her and her husband Aaron.
The 57-year-old director married Aaron, now 33, in 2012, three years after they met on the set of Nowhere Boy.
Regardless of sustaining a fiercely non-public relationship, the couple has typically been the topic of public scrutiny and controversy attributable to their vital age distinction.
Taylor-Johnson admitted that the preliminary consideration on their relationship was fairly intense, suggesting that persons are drawn to attempting to grasp issues they discover unconventional or sudden.
“Folks wish to perceive issues after they cannot,” she remarked.
Nevertheless, she famous that the general public’s curiosity has since subsided, because the couple has now been collectively for 14 years.
Regardless of the early controversies, they’ve confirmed their relationship’s resilience and moved past the preliminary hypothesis.
In a current look on BBC Radio 4’s This Cultural Life, director Johnson mirrored, “I suppose that curiosity was extra once we obtained collectively, which was now 14 years in the past,” she mentioned, recalling the extraordinary scrutiny they confronted at the start of their relationship.
“That form of fascination, as a result of he is youthful than me, which you understand, we could not actually fathom.”
Regardless of the preliminary consideration, Sam famous that the fascination has diminished over time. “However I suppose it is form of gone away just a little bit,” she added.
Nevertheless, she talked about that the subject sometimes resurfaces throughout press interviews.
“Largely after I’m doing press and issues like this, it form of resurges just a little bit.
However yeah, I suppose folks wish to perceive issues after they cannot,” she defined, noting that unconventional relationships typically entice curiosity.
