Image source, KANE SKENNAR/NETFLIXImage caption, Taron Egerton plays a deadly assassin in Netflix's ApexByBeth Alaw WilliamsBBC Wales Published27 March 2026 Netflix has released the trailer for a new survivalist thriller starring Taron Egerton. The Welsh actor will play a "cunning killer" in the hunt-or-be-hunted film Apex, alongside Oscar winner Charlize Theron, the streamer said. In the action-packed trailer, the Golden Globe winner speaks with an Australian accent as he hunts Theron. The Rocketman star, who grew up in Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, faced a very different climate while filming in the Australian wilderness. Photos from the film show Egerton and his Oscar winning co-star Charlize Theron He told People magazine: "I was very excited by not having to worry about what my hair looked like every day." In a rare turn as a villain, Egerton plays a deadly assassin whose character Ben stalks Theron's Sasha after meeting her by chance at a petrol station.
Published: March 27, 2026 5:59 pm
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