When you think of modern-day stars, there are plenty who have tattoos. I’m sure we could probably even name a few that will appear in films on the 2025 movie schedule. Despite it being less taboo to ink oneself these days, Taron Egerton has never gotten one before. However, he nearly did after filming his latest film, She Rides Shotgun – until his mom found out.
The film features Egerton as Nate, a former convict who is trying to make a life for himself and his daughter (played by Ana Sophia Heger), but they are both chased down by enemies. In the film, Nata sports several different tattoos, all of which were drawn onto Egerton’s body, and he openly admitted he loved the process of obtaining and designing them:
I really enjoyed it. Yeah. It felt like a real process. It took probably an hour or something and it really felt like the moment to… really reflect on what we were going to shoot and where he was at psychologically, emotionally. And there’s something really glorious about those tattoos, and that they’re all very expressive. They’ve all got little stories behind them, and they’re all from certain times in his life… I really enjoyed the process of designing them. I miss them, actually. I miss them now that they’re gone.
Avengers cast getting matching ones always comes to mind when the subject comes up. Major stars like Jason Momoa have taken great care with tattooos and even shared the meaning behind many of them, so it’s not like getting a She Rides Shotgun tattoo would have been that outside-the-box of a choice. It just didn’t work for Egerton’s mom.
I still think if he were to have gotten a tattoo from a film, She Rides Shotgun would have been the one. The movie is thrilling from beginning to end and tells an exciting story about what a father would do for their daughter, and how trauma changes people. The tattoos were just an extra piece of the puzzle.
Egerton’s had a big year with Smoke and now She Rides Shotgun in limited theatrical release. People keep asking him about James Bond and Wolverine lately, too. But now I’m mostly curious about whether or not he’ll ever bit the bullet and ink himself. Only time will tell.