Aaron Taylor-Johnson opens up about shedding ‘an aura’ after intense roles

Aaron Taylor-Johnson candidly talked about his commitment to his work but also urged to take precautions to leave it back at work

In a recent appearance on Brittany Broski’s YouTube show Royal Court, the 34-year-old actor talked about delving into a role.

During the conversation, Taylor-Johnson teased his own dedication to work by hysterically saying, “We’ve barely scratched the surface,” and warned about not bringing the role back home after work.

“You’re trying to shed a skin, or actually, like, an aura around you,” he explained. “And you can sort of like convince yourself there isn’t one, but I do feel some people are really susceptible to that, and sensitive to that feeling.”

The Fall Guy actor gave a detailed brief of the creative process of getting into the character.

“It really kinda depends,” he said, noting, “I kind of enjoy, like, finding habits, like, good and bad habits of that character, and sort of living in that routine and pattern … or listening to certain music that would be associated with that era of time.”

“It’s multiple things, because, you’re also, like, changing facial hair or your hair or what your clothes are or what you’re wearing, so that — eventually — it becomes second nature, and ideally you’re already in that character when you step on set.”

Moreover, the Kick-Ass actor gushed over Gary Oldman and Daniel Day-Lewis calling them “chameleons”-like who taught him that “you can not only change your voice, but you can change the way you move, change the way you walk.”