- Taron, always good to see you, buddy.
- Good to see you, brother.
How are you, Josh? - Welcome to the club.
This is my club.
Do you like it?
- Do you know what?
Is it a bit like the end of the first Kingsmen?
- (chuckles) That's what I was going for.
- It is, isn't it? - Yeah, it is a little bit.
Where's Colin?
Where's Michael?
- Well, Colin was definitely dead at that point,
but I feel like Samuel L. Jackson should be
laughing maniacally.
- [Little John] You are a crusader.
Now,
you have to be a warrior.
- [Josh] You just debuted some footage.
I got to see, finally, some footage from Robin Hood.
Looks very cool, man. - Yeah, looks cool, man.
I've seen the movie, it's great.
It's very,
it's pretty
explosive is the word, really.
It's kind of high-octane and
fast-paced and fun.
I mean, it was so great working with Jamie Foxx,
and to have a kind of buddy relationship
thing going with him in the film is quite exciting
'cause he's so charismatic.
And great off the cuff.
Yeah, we had a good time.
- I've noticed in the past when I talk to Jamie
and he has younger co-stars,
he really kind of bonds with them in a profound way.
He takes them under their wing.
- He's so nurturing and encouraging.
And, yeah, man, he's a great guy.
- So how was the film originally kind of
pitched to you or talk to you about?
Because, obviously, we've seen many
different iterations of Robin Hood.
What made this feel fresh?
- Well, they sent me a script,
and it read very much like something
that wasn't set in the 1300s.
And I liked that about it because
it had a kind of an irreverence,
and a fun, and a cheekiness.
And then I was very familiar with Otto's work.
- [Josh] Yeah, Peaky Blinders.
- Peaky Blinders, Black Mirror.
He worked on a show called Hustle in the UK.
I've seen various things he's,
I had seen various things he'd done,
and I just think he's got a great sense of what's cool.
He's got a great sense for timing.
And he's very interested in character.
And it was kind of pitched to me as being
what Peaky Blinders did for
whatever, I'm not sure what decade that's set in,
somewhere in the the 1920s or something?
- We'll dub it in.
- But making a modern,
making a historical story feel modern
and contemporary and making it rock 'n roll.
And I think Otto does that very well.
- [Josh] And say what you will about,
and I love Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves,
I think your accent's a little bit better
than Kevin Costner's, with all due respect.
- The accent and the hair, I hope,
are both considerably better. (Josh chuckles)
I love that movie. - Me too, come on.
- And what I find exciting about this
is that movie for me
it's dated now in a lot of ways,
but it still has a special place in so many people's,
I mean, what are you?
You're a couple years older than me?
- Yes. - Yeah.
But for me as a kind of five or six-year-old,
that was super cool and it always will be for me.
And I hope that my Robin Hood is that for some other kids.
- Yeah.
Is there a Byran Adams song in this one?
Are you gonna be bathing in a waterfall?
- I tried to get them to let me cover it.
They didn't want that for some reason.
I still think it's a mistake.
- It's not too late. - I offered to do
a rap version of that song. (Josh chuckles)
Weren't feeling it.
Don't really know why.
- Speaking of singing, we gotta talk about,
we're that much closer to seeing you
finally get in front of the cameras for Elton John, right?
- Yeah, yeah, this thing that's been a long time coming.
I'm super excited about it.
Terrified but super, super excited.
And I'm not going to say anything about it (chuckles).
- Let me ask you this.
Did you have to audition for Elton?
You had obviously sung in Sing
you've done a little bit of-- - I didn't, no.
- You didn't, didn't have to?
Meet with him, nothing?
- No, I'd met him before and
he was very, very kind about my singing and
it's been put together by Matthew Vaughn
and Dexter Fletcher is directing.
- Right.
- So there's a lot of people I've worked with before and
it really kind of started when Hugh Jackman and I
recorded a song for the end of Eddie the Eagle.
- Yep.
- And it was sent off to Matthew
and he called me and went, "You can sing"
And I went, "Well, yeah, a little bit."
And he went, "No, but you can sing."
And then it all kind of went from there.
- What's the most petrifying part?
Not to get it in your head and to get you
worried about this prospect but
is there one thing you're most worried about
as you approach it?
- I felt like, what I wanted to say is
I just don't want to--
- You can say it.
- I don't wanna fuck it up. (Josh chuckles)
'Cause it's,
'cause it's Elton John. - Yeah.
- If I fuck it up, it's really bad.
- You won't, don't worry. - Hopefully I won't.
- Last quick thing.
Kingsmen Two, 400 million plus worldwide.
What does that mean for the future of Kingsmen?
What're you hearing?
- I would be very, very surprised if it was
the last you'd seen of the Kingsmen.
- Okay. - Yeah, yeah.
- [Josh] Talked to Matthew recently?
Do you know what's cooking in his head?
- I do.
- And there's something in there.
- There's a lot in Matthew Vaughn's head, yeah.
- We don't have that kind of time.
There's a lot! - I mean, I don't think
it's wise to discuss a lot of it.
But yeah, there's a lot.
I think you will be seeing more of us.
- Excellent. - Yeah.