Aaron Taylor-Johnson is in a movie.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson ( born Aaron Perry Johnson ; 13 June 1990 ) is an English actor , best known as the title character in the Kick-Ass films and Quicksilver in Avengers : Age of Ultron ( 2015 ) . He had his breakthrough performance in the John Lennon biopic Nowhere Boy ( 2009 ) . Nowhere Boy is a 2009 British biographical musical drama film about John Lennon 's adolescence , his relationships with his guardian aunt and his mother , the creation of his first band , the Quarrymen , and its evolution into the Beatles .