With 28 Years Later officially terrifying audiences in theaters, Aaron Taylor-Johnson takes us behind the curtain to reveal how director Danny Boyle turned the nightmare up a notch. From relentless stunt work to the film’s eerie realism, Johnson shares how stepping into this world of infected chaos pushed him to the edge—and why this sequel hits harder than ever before.
00:00My character Jamie is part of this community that have survived 20-odd years because they live on the Holy Island, disconnected from the mainland.
00:11Like, they don't have doctors, medicine, can only eat what they can grow.
00:16They can go hunt, but they have to go hunt on the mainland.
00:18But we can only get here and low tide.
00:20And they have rules. If you leave the island and if you don't return, there's no one going out to look for you.
00:25They're going to assume that you've been infected and you're dead and you're gone.
00:28There are no rescues. It's something we learned the hard way.
00:32It is a bit of a rites of passage for his son to pick up these tools and these skills.
