In pursuit of that ugliness, he took on the titular role in Eddie the Eagle-a 2016 underdog comedy based on the true story of a hapless British ski jumper with a prominent underbite. “It’s more fun to play things that are ugly,” he explains. Egerton’s 2015 breakthrough role in the action flick Kingsman: The Secret Service placed him-jawline first-on the conveyor belt of conventionally attractive Hollywood heroes.
It’s a forgivable sliver of vanity from an actor who has spent much of his professional life running away from his good looks. The 29-year-old actor is simply suffering the aftereffects of a “terrible” haircut to play Elton John in the forthcoming biopic Rocketman, he had his hair thinned and his hairline raised.
It’s not that he’s worried he’ll be “spotted”-this West London outpost of Soho House attracts a crowd that would look the other way if the pope were propping up the bar.
Taron Egerton keeps his cap on throughout dinner at White City House.