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KINGSMAN: THE GOLDEN CIRCLE
Planting The Seeds "I set up the first one so there could be a sequel," says Vaughn. And Kingsman:
The Secret Service does end with Eggsy and Roxy, having combined to vanquish the
global threat posed by billionaire villain Richmond Valentine (Samuel L.
Jackson), becoming fully-fledged Kingsmen. "As a director I enjoyed making the
first one so much that the idea was appealing. But sequels are very hard. The
audience loves what's gone before, but if you do the same thing, it's boring and
unoriginal."
Vaughn looked at a number of sequels that he felt matched, or even surpassed,
their predecessor, including The Godfather Part II and The Empire Strikes Back;
films that were neither boring or unoriginal. "The sequels I love are a
continuation of a story," he says. And the chief story he wanted to continue was
Eggsy's. "We didn't want it to be a James Bond-style sequel where Eggsy's facing
another threat, but he's static as a character," says Jane Goldman, who has been
Vaughn's writing partner on every movie he's directed since 2007's Stardust. "We
talked about another journey he could take."
That journey sees Eggsy holding down a relationship with Princess Tilde (Hanna
Alstrom), the Swedish princess whose life was saved by Eggsy at the end of The
Secret Service, and who rewarded him for his endeavours in rather an unorthodox
manner. "In spy movies, there's a parade of different women in every film," says
Goldman. "With Kingsman we wanted to subvert and challenge everything and loved
this idea - what if that wasn't just casual at the end of the first movie? What
if that turned into a serious relationship - how does that affect his position?"
Kingsman: The Secret Service represented the first time Egerton had ever set
foot on a movie set, let alone taken the lead role. Since then the young Welsh
actor has gone from strength to strength, with roles in the likes of Legend,
Eddie The Eagle (also produced by Vaughn), Sing, and the upcoming Robin Hood.
Yet he was delighted to return to the role where it all began for him. "It's my
first experience of coming back for a sequel, but it's never felt daunting
because Matthew is still at the helm," he says. "Eggsy is very much a part of
me."
Even though the movie begins with Eggsy having been a Kingsman - codename
Galahad - for almost two years, both Vaughn and Egerton were keen that the
character not be infallible; that elements of the cocky lad from a council
estate remained. "The rough edges haven't sanded off," explains Egerton. "He
still fucks up. He still has to escape through sewers and emerge covered in
shit. That's not Harry Hart, that's Eggsy. We even see him return to his Adidas
hoody - that's who he is on his downtime."
When it came to sketching out Eggsy's journey, Vaughn looked again to one of his
favourite movies for inspiration - Star Wars. "The best example for me of a
mainstream character taking a journey over several films is Luke Skywalker," he
says. "In The Empire Strikes Back, there's this feeling that your hero is still
not quite a hero, he's still got conflict going on. I tried to apply that to The
Golden Circle."
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