On the mend. After fainting in the middle of his theatrical performance, Taron Egerton issued a statement about how he’s feeling.“As some of you may have heard, I passed out during the first performance of COCK last night,” the Rocketman star, 32, wrote via Instagram Story on Sunday, March 6. “I am completely fine.
Slightly sore neck and a bruised ego but I’m fine.”He jokingly continued: “I’ve decided to put a positive spin on it and I would appreciate it if anyone who was in the theatre last night just said I gave such a committed, electrifying performance that my body couldn’t handle it and 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.”The England native fainted on London’s Ambassador Theatre stage mid-scene before a doctor in the audience came to his aid while the show took a 40-minute intermission, according to the Independent.
Director Marianne Elliott then appeared on stage, telling the crowd the actor was “absolutely fine” and the last 15 minutes of the show would resume with an understudy playing Egerton’s part.“Thank you to the amazing team at the theatre and my wonderful castmates for being so lovely,” the Sing 2 voice actor added in his social media statement. “But mainly I wanted to say thanks to Joel Harper Jackson who stepped in to do the last bit of the play.
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