Voices: There’s just one problem with Aaron Taylor-Johnson’s press tour
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Stars should never try to distance themselves from their most iconic work, writes Emma Clarke – or they risk alienating their core fanbase. I think I speak for everyone when I say that having Aaron Taylor-Johnson dominate our social feeds and screens right now can only be a good thing.
Regardless of whether you have a penchant for vampire flicks or you’re partial to Spider-Man spin-offs, his renaissance is especially exciting for thirty-something women like me, whose formative years were accented by his breakout role. Never mind the Kickass movies, Nowhere Boy or REM’s “Überlin” music video – before any of that, he starred in Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging – the heartwarming coming-of-age story from 2008, which follows a young teen and her friends as they navigate secondary school, first crushes, fallouts and bullies. It is, irrefutably, one of the best movies ever made. Who could forget it?.
Well, Taylor-Johnson, apparently – if his current press tour is anything to go by. Admittedly, when he couldn’t reel off his first line from the movie recently, I let him off the hook. Sure, he memorises words for a living and his interaction with his cat “little Jubbly Jubbly” will forever be imprinted in my mind, but it did come out 16 years ago. Let’s give the guy a break.
Less acceptable, however, is the fact that he “forgot” who Dave The Laugh was (you know, his character’s mate) during a BBC Radio One interview with Greg James. To rub salt in the wound, he, too, failed to remember “Ultraviolet” – the iconic anthem that his on-screen rock band, The Stiff Dylans, played for protagonist Georgia. And during the same sit-down, while cuddling puppies (not a euphemism), he commented on how the film pushed him out of his comfort zone at a time he was mostly doing “indie films” – and how he had no idea it would “still follow me around today.”.
