Actor Brad Pitt co-stars in “Bullet Train” Aaron Taylor-Johnson in Locarno

It was all about Aaron Taylor-Johnson at the Locarno Opening Ceremony, where the actor received the 2022 Excellence Award Davide Campari and presented “Bullet Train.”

“People sometimes ask me what I’m doing. I say, ‘I’m a dad and I act sideways, part-time,'” he told the audience gathered in Piazza Grande before the show.

“Even though, lately I’ve been feeling a subtle shift. I’ve tried to evolve into those shoes where I take pride in celebrating the actor inside me. I had to think about what got me to this moment and I’d kid myself if I thought it was just genius. That would be nice, but it’s not the truth.” It’s a team effort.”

To back up this statement, he also found time to pay tribute to his supporting star, Brad Pitt, calling him a “humble and generous human being.”

“I think he’s in a new chapter in his life,” he told reporters at the Swiss festival the next day.

“He just wants to bring light and joy into the world and be around the people who are out there to have a good time. You work with several actors and after a while you start taking notes: ‘I’m definitely not working with that guy again.'” Brad has this list too : the “good” list and the “nonsense” list.

Speaking of his “perfectly stylized personality” in David Leitch author Brian Terry Henry’s Equally Killer Lemonade, Taylor Johnson also looked back when he first got his start.

“I started acting when I was six. My first thing was ‘An Inspector Calls’, a West End play by Stephen Daldry. I guess my parents just wanted me to get out of the house – I was very active, always performing and dancing.”

He scored his first movie role just three years later, playing twins in “Tom & Thomas” by Esmé Lammers.

“That’s when it changed for me. I thought I was going to be a gymnast and I had to make a decision. It was something important to me, because during the selection process it came down to me and pairs of actual twins,” he laughed.

But it was “Nowhere Boy” directed by his current wife Sam Taylor-Johnson – which was followed by the box office hit “Kick-Ass” – that gave him a breakout and actually taught him the craft.

“I’ve learned a lot about how to try to deal with most of my characters now,” he said.

“It was a huge achievement, to put on John Lennon’s shoes. That was the only part of his life that wasn’t documented, but there is the impersonation and then there is the personification of the character.”

“Young Lennon obviously wasn’t singing Beatles songs, so who was his influence? Who was he listening to? Daniel Day-Lewis said that in order to find your characters, you have to smell them. You have to find their scent.”

He was “over-prepared” for his role in “Nocturnal Animals,” however, and was going down a serial killers rabbit hole in order to understand his turbulent and terrifying personality that eventually earned him a BAFTA nod and a Golden Globe Award.

“I couldn’t tell you why Tom Ford thought I would be the right person to play this psychopathic rapist,” he said.

“I knew him before the production of this movie, we had some dinner, and the story goes that during one of those dinners, I told him a strange story. I was probably closer to Tangerine that night.”

He said the part scared him.

“Tom kept saying he wanted this guy to be unexpected, creepy, and charismatic. I stayed in a motel in the desert and lived on a toxic diet of cigarettes and wine. I wanted to feel filthy and filthy inside.”

“One thing I noticed is that everything [these infamous psychopaths] He had that charm or ostentation toward them that was attractive, that look in their eyes—that weird stare that showed a complete lack of empathy. They just didn’t care about their victims at all. I wanted to get her into that character.”

“We thought so [awarding] Artistic Director Giona A. Which suggests that in the case of Aaron Taylor-Johnson, the best may be yet to come.