For the past ten years, director Jaume Collet-Serra has been working with movie stars, whether in his cycle of fraught, Hitchcockian thrillers with Liam Neeson; Blake Lively’s best-ever performance in the limited-location shark thriller The Shallows; or a pair of would-be blockbusters starring Dwayne Johnson. So, hold up: Does this mean that Taron Egerton, the star of Collet-Serra’s new movie Carry-On, has officially arrived after multiple cracks at star-making vehicles?
Egerton, who hails from an English/Welsh background, has been toplining movies since around the time that Collet-Serra first took up with Neeson. (His last airplane-themed thriller and his second with Neeson, Non-Stop, came out in 2014.) Though his movies haven’t all been lacking in ambition, he’s one of those actors whose sights are clearly set on leading-man stardom; his second-ever movie was Kingsman: The Secret Service, where he played the cheeky bloke turned gentleman superspy Eggsy, a role he reprised
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