Aaron Johnson has revealed that he does not like telling people that he is an actor.
Johnson has shot to fame in the last twelve months with Nowhere Boy and Kick Ass but he doesn't like admitted that he doesn't like revealing what he does as a job.
Speaking to the Los Angeles Times the actor said: "When people say, 'What do you do?' I hate saying I'm an actor. Everyone just associates them with w****rs, you know what I mean?
"I bumped into someone, and when I said I was an actor, they started saying, like, 'Oh I just worked with Orlando Bloom,' I grew up in a town where that didn't happen."
Johnson grabbed everyone's attention with his performance as John Lennon in the biopic picture Nowhere Boy, a project that Yoko Ono supported.
"She saw the film, loved it, cried and everything, and she's just been hugely supportive and complimentary on all of our performances."
The actor is currently filming The Phone and has a second Kick Ass movie in the pipeline.
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