By Georgia Hart
Published: 04:50, 16 April 2014 | Updated: 09:50, 16 April 2014
He is now 23 years old, married and a father-of-four.
But Aaron Taylor-Johnson has revealed that he was not always the responsible family man when he first moved from London to Los Angeles, and that it was his 47-year-old wife Sam Taylor-Wood who brought him down to earth.
The young star told Nylon Guys Magazine of the 'self-destructive' behaviour and 'crazy s***' he got up to upon landing in Hollywood in an interview for their April/May edition.
Cover boy: Aaron Taylor-Johnson appeared on the cover of Nylon Guys magazine for the April/May edition, where he told them he got up to 'a lot of crazy s***' when he first moved to Los Angeles from London
Aaron is known for his roles in Kick-Ass and Nowhere Boy, but also for his marriage to the latter film's director - Sam - who is 23 years his senior.
The actor has revealed that prior to meeting the famed British filmmaker, he endured his fair share of wild partying days.
'It was a lot of crazy s*** I got up to for a couple years,' Aaron told the publication.
'I was pretty self-destructive at one point,' he admitted, before listing off his vices seemingly without too much trouble.
'I used to smoke 30 [cigarettes] a day, used to f***ing drink nonstop. I've always been able to be on the f***ing edge—be on the line, but then pull myself back.'
While this behaviour was going on, the actor was beginning to audition, but apparently not for anything that took his fancy.
'Some interesting movies but a lot of TV,' is what he says he was called out for initially. 'A lot of Nickelodeon bulls***.'
'I stopped when I met Sam': The 23-year-old actor explained that his partying days ended when he met his current wife Sam Taylor-Wood, who is 23 years his senior
According to Aaron, he had plenty of fun with the auditioning process, only revealing that he was British after reading for the casting directors with an American accent.
'It was kind of like learning how to pull,' he said. 'It was like, how do you go into a bar and point out the fittest girl and then just go, 'I'll have her by the end of the night?''
But when he met Sam, who directed him in the 2009 John Lennon biopic Nowhere Boy, his boyish behaviour apparently came to an end.
'I was at that age where that was kind of... I stopped when I met Sam.'
As for the endless curiosity as to why he didn't play the role of Christian Grey in his wife's upcoming novel adaptation Fifty Shades Of Grey, the star has now put it to rest.
'I think it would have been the wrong kind of hype to bring toward us,' he explained.
Love: Sam Taylor-Wood and Aaron Taylor-Johnson posed together at the MTV Movie Awards on April 13
'It would have been kind of funny that this character that all these women fancy - he's one in a million - and my wife picks her husband to play the part?' he elaborated, adding: 'I would love to have done something together again, but it wouldn't have been Fifty. We were both on the same page.'
In fact, according to Aaron he hasn't even read the books his wife's film is based on - but he 'will watch the movie, though!'
Aaron and Sam are parents to three-year-old Wylda and two-year-old Romy, and the actor is also a step-father to sixteen-year-old Angelica and eight-year-old Jessie, from Sam's previous marriage.
Aaron will next be seen in Godzilla, and is currently on the set of The Avengers: Age Of Ultron, in which he stars opposite Elizabeth Olsen.
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