Taron Egerton reveals Rocketman opens with Elton John “in an actual

Taron Egerton has revealed a bit extra about what to anticipate from Rocketman because it tells the lifetime of Elton John.

Talking at a footage preview occasion, Egerton stated that the explanation the film was “always very special” to him was that there wasn’t the necessity to maintain something again. To that finish, it would not begin as you’d count on.

“The movie begins with Elton marching into rehab in a real bad way, sweaty, grinding his teeth and that’s our jumping-off point for the film. We learn his life through him recanting his experiences from this therapy room,” he advised Digital Spy and different press.

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Egerton praised Elton’s stance that Rocketman might present him at his “most vulnerable”.

“It’s proper on the coronary heart of what makes Rocketman fairly particular as a result of Elton gave me the licence to go and make him look fairly ugly at occasions, that was all the time crucial to me,” he continued.

“This movie is primarily a celebration of Elton’s life and work and his musical partnership with Bernie Taupin, but it’s also a story about someone who is not well becoming well.”

The occasion additionally noticed director Dexter Fletcher clarify why the film is not your typical music biopic and is a “musical fantasy” as an alternative.

Rocketman is in cinemas on May 24.

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