After starring in the hugely successful Elton John biopic Rocketman, which earned him a Golden Globe as well as critical acclaim, Taron Egerton wasn't about to rush into anything.told the Sky News Backstage podcast he was mindful about next steps after what must have been a dizzying rise to fame.
"I was so lucky between the ages of sort of 23 and 28 in that I had some lovely opportunities, and I just was really, really lucky as an actor with the things that came my way," Egerton said. "But I did feel that I was waiting for something meaty and that arrived in the form of Rocketman, and it also had this commercial appeal, and it was just a great thing, and I felt that once all was said and done and we were finished, my instinct was: 'You absolutely have to follow this with something interesting and don't just rush into something'.
"So, I spent a year waiting for this script and it arrived in July of 2020, and I knew immediately, absolutely immediately that this was the thing - I just thought it was compelling and gripping and dark and outside of my wheelhouse, you know, something that was different for me and that was very exciting too.
It tells the story of a high school football hero turned drug dealer who is sentenced to 10 years in a minimum-security prison, but then given a choice - to enter a maximum-security prison for the criminally insane, befriend a suspected serial killer in a bid to illicit a confession and have his sentence commuted, or stay where he is and serve his full sentence with no possibility of parole.
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