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Taron David Egerton (/ˈɛdʒərtən/ EJ-ər-tən; born 10 November 1989) is a Welsh actor and singer. After graduating from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, he performed in stage plays before gaining recognition for his starring role as a spy in the action comedy films Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014) and Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017). Egerton has starred in several biographical films, portraying military officer Edward Brittain in the drama Testament of Youth (2014), the titular ski-jumper in the sports film Eddie the Eagle (2016), and singer Elton John in the musical Rocketman (2019). The last of these earned him a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor. He also starred as Jimmy Keene in the miniseries Black Bird (2022), for which he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award, as Henk Rogers in the biopic Tetris (2023), and in the thriller film Carry-On (2024). Description above from the Wikipedia article Taron Egerton, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
It's based on the novel The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway 1926 and describes the soldiers' feelings after returning home from WWI. The protagonist and narrator is an American Jacob Barnes. This is a story about a group of young soldiers living in France, they drink a lot, sleep with girls a lot and even bet who will have sex with more girls, but in reality, nothing is as it seems and they aren't happy in life. Jacob strives for a full and carefree life spent with friends at parties, restaurants. But, he is marred by a war injury that renders him impotent and thus unable to fulfill his feelings for Lady Brett Ashley, whom he loves and presumably she too. However, they know that the relationship is impossible cause she would have to cheat on him, which she doesn't want. They deal on her dating, she confides in him about her love problems. The men decide to travel to Spain for the Fiesta of San Fermín in Pamplona iwhich s known for the Running of the Bulls. They think there is no reason to be alive anymore for them so they don't care if they will die there. Jacob is a big fan of Bull fighting. Brett Is there too and she is there with her Fianceé Mike, but she falls in love with the young bullfighter Pedro Romero. They are together but after a while their relationship doesn't last and she calls Jake. In the final scene in Taxi in Madrid Brett tells Jake she thinks they could have had a wonderful time together. Jake replies, “Yes, isn't it pretty to think so?
