We were having dinner one night and he was acting out a story, he just switched into something, and I thought, ‘Oh my God, you could totally be this character Ray,’” Ford continues. “Initially I was reticent about casting Aaron because we are friends,” says Ford, who wrote the film’s screenplay based on Austin Wright’s 1993 novel “Tony and Susan.” “I have also known his wife for over 20 years and I see them socially. No wonder the 26-year-old British actor exhibits a confidence and eloquence unusual for a man in his mid-20s. He was Ford’s first choice for the “Nocturnal Animals” role, for example.
It will mark the first original feature produced through Amazon Studios.Įven though he only takes one project a year, his profile is rapidly rising. The actor recently finished shooting his next film, “The Wall,” an indie war thriller directed by Doug Liman. “I had to keep that dark aura away from my family and kids,” he adds. Both limit themselves to one project a year, giving Taylor-Johnson the ability to fully enter the headspace of such a troubled character. While his character brought him to dark spaces, the actor was buoyed by his home life with director Sam Taylor-Johnson. I couldn’t even recognize half the things I did - what did I say, what did I just do?” While he wasn’t able to sympathize with his character’s actions, Taylor-Johnson was able to find justification for the why, which he distills to, “You’re only going to blame me anyway, so I might as well do the thing you’re accusing me of.” “There are some things that I did as that character that when I watched it back for the first time, I was so put off and disturbed by myself. “It was really kind of disturbing, sleepless nights,” Taylor-Johnson says of the process.
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It’s a far step from the Marvel superhero universe Taylor-Johnson has inhabited in recent years, from the “Kick-Ass” films to “Avengers: Age of Ultron.” Himself a father to two young girls, he spent several months prior to filming researching psychopaths and serial killers to prepare for going inside of his character’s dark psyche. “When I first read the script, I thought it’s a dark, horrific, violent thriller, which it is, but it’s a metaphor for this heartbreak,” he says of the highly stylized film, which also stars Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Shannon and Isla Fisher across a collage of interwoven story lines. Taylor-Johnson’s Ray Marcus lives in the barren stretches of Texas, the ringleader of a gang of miscreants who encounter, and subsequently brutalize, a husband and wife who are on a road trip with their young daughter. It gave us a lot more, as actors, to play with within this environment.Quil Lemons Explores Desire and Masculinity in 'Quiladelphia' So it was interesting it was a different dynamic. It created an atmosphere that made my character in a vulnerable position. Instead, it presents an important moment of weakness for Ray - who has all the power in most of the movie's early scenes - as he is approached by the characters played by Michael Shannon and Jake Gyllenhaal. And you're going to be naked out on the loo when they find you.'Īs noted, it creates a funny moment just because it's so weird seeing a dude naked and using a toilet on a porch - but it wasn't just included in Nocturnal Animals for the sake of being weird. Your character is a plumber, and he's decided to put his toilet outside, and that's his great invention. Tom's like, 'I actually have a great idea. It kind of came halfway through making the movie.
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