Taron Egerton is assuring us that he is “completely fine.”
On Saturday (March 5), the 32-year-old actor collapsed on stage during his first performance of his new play, Cock, at the Ambassadors Theatre in London.
The next day, he took to social media to address what had happened and to give fans a health update. He wrote on Instagram:
“As some of you may have heard, I passed out during the first performance of COCK last night.
I am completely fine. Slightly sore neck and a bruised ego but I’m fine.
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 that I gave such a committed, electrifying performance that my body couldn’t handle it and 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.”
He went on to express his gratitude to his cast mates the everyone involved in the production:
“Thank you to the amazing team at the theatre and my wonderful cast mates for being so lovely.
But mainly I wanted to say thanks to Joel Harper Jackson who stepped in to fo the last bit of the play. Joel is an amazing actor and a lovely person. Thank you Joel.”
Reports state that after Taron collapse on stage, production was stopped and a doctor from the audience was brought in to assist him. About 40 minutes later, director Marianne Elliott told the audience that Taron was “absolutely fine” and that Joel Harper Jackson would take over for the last 15 minutes of the show.
