4) Taron Egerton
Taron Egerton – the star of this year’s Kingsman: The Secret Service – is another up-and-coming actor who benefits from his status as a relative unknown, and is currently on the path to stardom. He’s wound up on fan wishlists for both X-Men and Spider-Man (expressing his own interest in both), and has two potentially high-profile projects on his slate: Legend, opposite Tom Hardy, and Eddie the Eagle, where he’ll play Eddie Edwards, Great Britain’s first ski jumper to enter the Winter Olympics.
Egerton showed all of the qualities of a young Han Solo as newly-recruited Kingsman agent Eggsy Unwin. He not only showed off his parkour and fighting skills in the film’s various creative action set pieces, but held his own against heavy hitters like Colin Firth, Mark Strong, Michael Caine and Star Wars alum Samuel L. Jackson.
[zergpaid]Add the fact that he was able to handle both the charisma and deeper emotional elements of his character, and you’ve got someone who could embody the role of Star Wars‘ resident rogue perfectly.
He’s not quite as unknown as some of the other young actors on this list, and is slightly older, which may give him a bit of an advantage should he ever wind up in contention for the role – which we sincerely hope he does.
