Action movies have always been a tried and true genre in the film industry. This trend has only increased in recent years thanks to the various superhero properties currently competing for box office supremacy. Plus there’s the 007 franchise, with Daniel Craig’s tenure as Bond coming to an end with No Time to Die. Actor Aaron Taylor-Johnson is a popular choice by fans to replace Craig, and there have been rumors about him taking on the role for years. Taylor-Johnson recently responded to those rumors, while also saying he “didn’t really care for” his role in Avengers and other franchises.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson made his MCU debut as Pietro Maximoff in Avengers: Age of Ultron, with his character dying to save Jeremy Renner’s Hawkeye. While fans have hoped he'd return to that role, it still hasn’t happened. In fact, Evan Peters played a fake Pietro in WandaVision. Taylor-Johnson is returning to the superhero genre as the title character of Kraven the Hunter, which he’s seemingly way more invested in. The 33 year-old actor recently spoke to Esquire about this career, where he got honest about some of this previous genre work. In his words:
