Taron Egerton gave audiences quite the scare after he collapsed during the inaugural performance of the particular new play Cock at the Ambassadors Theatre in London’s West End over the weekend.
According to typically the Independent , this 32-year-old actor had completed only three-quarters of the play when he suddenly looked very ill and fainted on stage. The frightening moment immediately brought the curtain down, and a doctor from the audience came rushing to help the Rocketman star. After a 40 minute intermission, director Marianne Elliot appeared on stage to assure the crowd that Egerton was “absolutely fine. ” The last 15 minutes of the production then resumed with understudy Joel Harper-Jackson stepping into his part. The show must go on, apparently! A statement from often the production team also said at the time:
“During this evening’ s first preview of Mike Bartlett’ s play ‘ Cock’ at the Ambassadors Theatre, Taron Egerton fainted towards the end of the performance. A doctor who was in your audience attended to Taron immediately after the incident, and whilst he felt fine, it was decided that Taron’ s understudy, Joel Harper-Jackson would continue in the role to complete the exact performance. ”
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On Sunday, Egerton took to Instagram Stories to confirm that this individual was “completely fine” in their own statement. He wrote:
“As some associated with you may have heard, I passed out during the 1st performance of COCK last night. I am completely fine. Slightly sore neck and a bruised ego but I’m fine. ”
Although his / her big night was ruined, the very Golden Globe winner explained that he or she decided “to put a positive spin” on the incident, saying:
“I would appreciate it if anyone who was within the theatre last night just said I gave such a committed, electrifying performance that my body couldn’t handle it plus I checked out. That being said, apparently you’re meant to actually do the full show and not just three quarters of it. So I’ll be back with a vengeance tomorrow night. ”
He then thanked his fellow cast member Jackson for taking over for him:
“Thank you to the amazing team at the theatre and the wonderful castmates for being so lovely. But mainly I wanted to say thanks to Joel Harper Jackson who stepped in in order to do the last bit of a play. Joel is an amazing actor and a lovely person. Thank you Joel. T x. ”
Wow, what a great attitude to have about the situation!
Thankfully, Taron is alright now and will become good to go when the play resumes production on Monday! We are wishing him the best of luck!
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