{"id":734831,"date":"2026-08-11T19:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T19:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/734831\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T19:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T19:10:09","slug":"taron-egerton-says-hes-been-estranged-from-his-father-for-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/734831\/","title":{"rendered":"Taron Egerton says he&#8217;s been estranged from his father &#8216;for years&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On the comedy podcast, Egerton went on to describe his Kingsman: The Secret Service and Kingsman: The Golden Circle co-star Colin Firth as a &#8220;fatherly figure&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The films \u2013 released in 2014 and 2017 \u2013 saw Egerton play Gary &#8220;Eggsy&#8221; Unwin, while Firth played his mentor Harry Hart.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Egerton admitted that while filming the movies, director Matthew Vaughn threatened to let him go because of his partying.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;Colin was amazing. I remember I was going through a difficult time. I broke up with my first girlfriend and I was like really aggressively partying to deal with it and was coming in, in like a bad way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I remember there were a couple of days on Kingsman where Matt was like, &#8216;you&#8217;re going home. I can&#8217;t film you today&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Egerton said it was Firth who was &#8220;fatherly and understanding&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added: &#8220;He was always lovely to me. When he saw the movie, I always remember what he texted me. He said, &#8216;you are note perfect&#8217;. He&#8217;s such a generous, kind man.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The actor said he would love to make another instalment of the film series because it &#8220;would be fun to get to ride with Colin once more&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After raising to fame in the Kingsman films, Egerton voiced Johnny the gorilla and sang Elton John&#8217;s I&#8217;m Still Standing in the animated movie Sing in 2016, before taking on the role of Sir Elton himself in 2019. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;Singing is a big thing in Wales, so I did choir stuff in school. Loved singing. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I was introduced to music very young, there was always music being played.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On the comedy podcast, Egerton went on to describe his Kingsman: The Secret Service and Kingsman: The Golden&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":734832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-734831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=734831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/734832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}