Taron Egerton on Tetris, Why He Hated Wearing the Mustache, & His Road to Directing

While at SXSW for the premiere of his latest film, Tetris, star Taron Egerton spoke with Collider’s Steve Weintraub about the fascinating and unbelievable origins of one of the world’s most popular video games. Egerton is best known for his breakout role as Eggsy in the Kingsman franchise and his performance as Grammy and Academy Award-winner Elton John in Rocketman, which earned the actor a Golden Globe. According to Egerton, these previous roles actually played a part in his decision to star in director Jon S. Baird’s condensed version of how Tetris took the world by storm. In the movie, which is now streaming on Apple TV , Egerton portrays Henk Rogers, the real-life video game designer and salesperson who made it his mission to retrieve the rights to Tetris from the Soviet Union. The script, penned by Noah Pink, is a concise retelling of the actual events that took place, and “...in terms of the machinations of these separate factions trying to win rights in a very volatile place at a time of partic