Read: Nowhere Boy: how playing John Lennon changed Aaron Johnson’s life

The star of Nowhere Boy tells how Lennon and meeting Sam Taylor-Wood carried him through one of the most intense experiences in his life

Just as I start speaking to Aaron Johnson, something eerie happens — Lennon’s voice starts to whisper out of the café speakers around me. It’s the 39th anniversary of John Lennon’s death today, and not the first spooky sign Lennon’s given, Johnson tells me later. He believes that the voice of the man that he plays in Sam Taylor-Wood’s Nowhere Boy also carried him through one of the most intense experiences in his life — not only because he fell deeply into the character of the teenage Lennon, defined by his relationships with strong, older women, but also because he fell in love with the director, Taylor-Wood, the recently divorced, 42-year-old artist-turned director who chose him for the part. He moved in with her and her children from the relationship with the art dealer Jay Jopling just after the film wrapped, and became her fiancé last month. Gossip hounds had a field day, just as Doctor Freud would have. - Jude Rogers, The Times UK

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