{"id":10360,"date":"2019-12-12T13:18:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T20:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10360"},"modified":"2019-12-17T13:22:39","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T20:22:39","slug":"sam-aaron-taylor-johnson-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2019\/12\/12\/sam-aaron-taylor-johnson-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam &#038; Aaron Taylor-Johnson Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/5744820\/a-million-little-pieces-addiction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"from TIME Magazine (opens in a new tab)\">from TIME Magazine<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why Sam and Aaron Taylor-Johnson Fought to Get\u00a0<em>A Million Little Pieces<\/em>\u00a0in Front of Audiences<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>BY\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/author\/sam-lansky\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">SAM LANSKY<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/api.time.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/GettyImages-1191544773.jpg?w=800&amp;quality=85\" alt=\"Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Sam Taylor-Johnson attend the Build Series to discuss 'A Million Little Pieces' on December 02, 2019 in New York City.\"\/><figcaption>Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Sam Taylor-Johnson attend the Build Series to discuss &#8216;A Million Little Pieces&#8217; on December 02, 2019 in New York City.\u00a0Getty Images\u20142019 Dominik Bindl<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDo what you want with it.\u201d That was more or less what James Frey told the director Sam Taylor-Johnson when she and her husband, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/5594323\/portrait-of-a-lady-on-fire-review\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Golden Globe-winning actor<\/a>\u00a0Aaron Taylor-Johnson, approached him about bringing Frey\u2019s 2003 book\u00a0<em>A Million Little Pieces\u00a0<\/em>to the screen. \u201cI\u2019m not going to be there,\u201d Sam remembers Frey saying. \u201cI\u2019m not going to read your script. I may not ever see the movie. But if you respond to the material and you like it, do it!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For Sam, director of\u00a0<em>Nowhere Boy\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/3759308\/fifty-shades-of-grey-sam-taylor-johnson-sequel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\"><em>Fifty Shades of Grey<\/em><\/a>, adapting Frey\u2019s bestseller about his struggle to get clean from drugs and alcohol in a Minnesota rehab was a longtime dream. It also ended up proving a challenge: \u201cEvery step of the way with this movie has been pushing a boulder up a hill,\u201d she says now.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/5744820\/a-million-little-pieces-addiction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"click to continue reading at TIME (opens in a new tab)\">click to continue reading at TIME<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from TIME Magazine Why Sam and Aaron Taylor-Johnson Fought to Get\u00a0A Million Little Pieces\u00a0in Front of Audiences BY\u00a0SAM LANSKY \u201cDo what you want with it.\u201d That was more or less what James Frey told the director Sam Taylor-Johnson when she and her husband, the\u00a0Golden Globe-winning actor\u00a0Aaron Taylor-Johnson, approached him about bringing Frey\u2019s 2003 book\u00a0A Million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conversation-information","category-culture-art","category-literary-news","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}