Move over, Robert Pattinson. There's new hair in town.
he well-coiffed competition is Aaron Johnson, the 20-year old British actor who portrays young John Lennon in the new movie "Nowhere Boy." A professional actor from the age of 12, Johnson has had roles in this year's "Kick-Ass" and in the recent HBO television movie "Temple Grandin."
"Nowhere Boy," set in Liverpool in the mid-1950s, explores the dynamic between the then 15-year-old Lennon and the two women in his life. One was Mimi (Kristin Scott Thomas), the strict, stiff-upper-lip woman who raised him. The other was Mimi's younger and free-spirited sister Julia (Anne-Marie Duff), who was actually John's biological mother. Julia loved rock-and-roll and passed it on to her son.
The movie covers this music trajectory – we even see John finally meet a neighborhood lad named Paul McCartney (Thomas Brodie Sangster). And, as we know from that period, you can't have music without a bit of a hair fetish.
Don't underestimate the role that hair plays in giving a movie an air of authenticity, say the experts.
"When you create a movie character within a specific period in history, the costumes, makeup and hairstyles all work together to create a certain silhouette that conveys that period," said Sandra Exelby, a veteran feature-film makeup artist and hairdresser, and chairman of the National Association of Screen Make-Up Artists and Hairdressers in the U.K. "In the case of John Lennon, the hairstyle gives you a feel for how and where he grew up."
For the viewer, one of the movie's greatest pleasures is watching Lennon preening his locks. The more involved with music he becomes, the more he wields his comb, molding his pompadour into shape or allowing a few locks of hair to fall onto his forehead.
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