Teen Delinquent Trains as Superspy in“KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE”
20th
Century Fox has recently released the first set of photos from the movie
“Kingsman: The Secret Service.”
From the pages of the acclaimed comic book “The Secret Service” by Mark
Millar and Dave Gibbons, “Kingsman: The Secret Service” movie stars Colin
Firth, Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Caine and Mark Strong along with up and
coming young stars led by Taron Egerton, Sofia Boutella and Sophie Cookson.
Directed by Matthew Vaughn
(“X-Men: First Class”), “Kingsman: The Secret Service” follows a suave veteran
agent Harry Hart (Firth) who leads and trains a young protégé Gary “Eggsy”
Unwin (Egerton) into the world of espionage.
Eggsy, a juvenile delinquent who can do parkour, pickpocket and drive a
car backwards is introduced into the world of super-secret spy organization
that recruits promising kids into the agency’s toughest training program.
The superspy romp is Firth’s
first foray into the action genre, being widely known as television’s Mr. Darcy
of the acclaimed “Pride and Prejudice” series, the movie introduced Firth to a
lot of firsts when it comes to training.
In a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, Firth was quoted saying, “I was afraid it was
ridiculous. I think what’s brilliant about Matthew is that he takes people’s
expectations and likes to mess with them. When we first met the year before, he
said, “One of the reasons I’m casting you is because you’re probably the last
person anyone could imagine kicking people and kicking off the villains.” And
that was the surprise he wanted to pull. And he said, by the way, “You’re going
to have to do it. Are you up to it?” That’s one of the reasons he got me so
early, to start training. He said, “You’re going to hate me by the end of it,”
and sure enough, the Jackie Chan training team comes to my house and they get
to work on me. I don’t think I’ve ever enjoyed myself so much in my life. I
realized that I’d made assumptions about myself that meant I had probably been
neglecting something that I might have enjoyed for years if I’d got to it
earlier.”
Moreso, Firth’s training is a
mix of Kung Fu, boxing and gymnastics, “Matthew had me on three hours a day of
training, even when I went off to do another film. But it wasn’t eastern
martial arts stuff. The guys that trained me were like the League of
Extraordinary Gentlemen in that they all had a particular superpower. Brad
Allan worked with Jackie Chan. He’s a kung fu black belt and one of the best in
the world. That’s his skill. But I also had Rudi Vrba, a Thai boxing world
champion, stuntman Rick English, and I had an Olympic gold medal gymnast,
Damien Walters. I had a team of people at the top of their field with very
special skills coming to me. It was slightly uncharted waters,” Firth shares of
his training coaches and regimen.
Having an eye for upcoming young superstars who are first unknowns, director Matthew Vaughn who discovered today’s “it” and sensible young actors such as Chloë Grace Moretz , Sienna Miller and Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Vaughn vouched on Taron Egerton being the lead teen actor in the movie as Eggsy, noting that Egerton has a likeability factor that was unique.
Suit up and gear up when “Kingsman:
The Secret Service” opens October 23 in theatres nationwide from 20th
Century Fox to be distributed by Warner Bros.
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