Lee & Eggsy Unwin | Paralyzed

A dear friend of mine adores Lee Unwin and has since infected me with that love. For her Birthday, I wanted to make a Lee tribute... and it turned into this nearly 3-minute lesson in agony. It hit me so hard while making this how difficult Eggsy’s life has been and how so much of the pain he’s endured is because of Lee’s death. Yes, it was the connection for Eggsy to Kingsman which was a good thing, but it also created a ripple effect in Eggsy’s life of truly terrible things that, as the saying goes, only made him kind. Ugh. Eggsy just doesn’t get enough recognition for being such an incredibly well developed, layered, three-dimensional character and I’ll be here, ready at a moment’s notice with a list of why he’s so amazing. But back to Lee. These paragraphs from the original script are so beautiful: ’It takes a nudge from Merlin to prompt the third to remove his mask. This is LEE, 22 - rugged face , army haircut and strong London accent. (...) The Terr