KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE (2014) dir. Matthew Vaughn
EDDIE THE EAGLE (2016) prod. Matthew Vaughn
KINGSMAN: THE GOLDEN CIRCLE (2017) dir. Matthew Vaughn
ROCKETMAN (2019) prod. Matthew Vaughn
But as people much wiser than me say, competing in the Olympics doesn’t mean anything if you sell yourself short. I didn’t come here as a novelty act, and I will not be going home as one.
I was kicked off every team I was ever on before I got the chance to prove myself. I was in hospital for a year when I was a kid. Dodgy knees. All the doctors said I should give up sport, take up reading. First book I got: The Official Olympic Photo Album. 1972. Moments of Glory. That was the book that made me realise I needed my own moment --- the one thing I could do to prove them all wrong. Do you think I’m mad?
THE BEST OF TARON EGERTON (AS VOTED BY OUR FOLLOWERS) --- Favourite Projects: #3 ‘Eddie the Eagle’ (2016) dir. Dexter Fletcher
A year after I got bunked from the Olympic squad, I went back to Warren Sharp to apologise, okay? I literally got down on my knees and I begged him to let me jump again. You wanna know what his last words to me were? ‘You will never take jumping seriously because you do not take yourself seriously.’ Don’t make the same mistake, Eddie. I’m begging you. Do it right, or not at all.
Okay? Are they gonna be your last words to me, too?
It's higher than you've jumped before, you're gonna go faster than you've ever gone before, you're gonna fly farther than your tiny little brain can handle but, it's just a jump.