50 Fun Facts About Kingsman: the Golden Circle

Which pop superstar, playing himself, is held captive by the villain Poppy Adams in Kingsman: The Golden Circle?

Elton John plays a fictionalised version of himself, kidnapped by the cartel boss. Two years later the actor who plays Eggsy portrayed the singer in the biopic Rocketman.

Which country banned Kingsman: The Golden Circle because the villain's lair sits in one of its ruined temples?

Cambodia is the setting of Poppy Land, the cartel boss's hideout, which Eggsy, Harry Hart and Merlin fly to in search of the laptop that controls the antidote.

Which actress plays Poppy Adams, the drug-cartel boss with a taste for 1950s kitsch, in Kingsman: The Golden Circle?

Julianne Moore was the first of the sequel's new stars to be linked to it, reported in February 2016 to be in talks for the villain.

Which US state is home to Statesman, the spy agency posing as a whiskey distillery in Kingsman: The Golden Circle?

Kentucky is where Kingsman's emergency protocol sends Eggsy and Merlin after their own headquarters is wiped out, and where they find Harry Hart alive in Statesman's care.

Into which machine do Eggsy and Harry Hart push the traitor Agent Whiskey at the end of Kingsman: The Golden Circle?

A meat grinder ends the fight, moments after Whiskey reveals why he turned: he wants every drug user to die because addicts killed his pregnant wife in a robbery.

Which actor's return as Harry Hart was first teased by a poster of the spy's glasses for Kingsman: The Golden Circle?

Colin Firth's spy had apparently been shot dead in the first film, and it was at one point stated that he would not be back. His return was officially confirmed in July 2016.

Which actor plays Tequila, the Statesman agent sidelined by Poppy Adams's toxin, in Kingsman: The Golden Circle?

Channing Tatum announced the role himself on Twitter, and his agent ends the film on an exchange posting with Kingsman in London.

Which condition afflicts Harry Hart when Eggsy and Merlin find him alive at Statesman in Kingsman: The Golden Circle?

Amnesia followed his rescue: Statesman's nanotechnology had saved Harry after he was shot in the first film, but the gentleman spy his friends knew was gone.

Which American singalong standard, sung on the score album by Merlin's actor, recurs in Kingsman: The Golden Circle?

Take Me Home, Country Roads is woven into three tracks of the score, including the opening cue, Eggsy Is Back.

Which mechanical guards tear apart henchmen who cross Poppy Adams at her jungle lair in Kingsman: The Golden Circle?

Robot dogs patrol Poppy Land, and Harry Hart destroys them during the final assault with help from the cartel boss's celebrity hostage.

Which Welsh actor returns as Eggsy, now a fully fledged Kingsman agent, in Kingsman: The Golden Circle?

Taron Egerton nearly had a clash: he had signed for a Lionsgate film due to shoot at the same time, and the two studios had to settle the schedule before the sequel could go ahead.

Which actor, the last American star to join the cast, plays the head of Statesman in Kingsman: The Golden Circle?

Jeff Bridges signed on in late May 2016, about two weeks after filming had begun in England.

Which actress plays Statesman's tech expert, a role first reported as head of the CIA, in Kingsman: The Golden Circle?

Halle Berry's character works with Merlin on Harry Hart's recovery, and she ends the film promoted into a field agent's post.

Which Game of Thrones actor plays Agent Whiskey, Eggsy's partner from Statesman, in Kingsman: The Golden Circle?

Pedro Pascal's casting was reported on the same day as the poster hinting that Harry Hart had survived. His agent steps in when Tequila falls ill.

Which actor plays Merlin, who survives the attack on Kingsman with Eggsy, in Kingsman: The Golden Circle?

Mark Strong also sings on the film's score album, and the director later teased, without confirming it, that the character might come back.

Which Kingsman codename has Eggsy inherited from his late mentor Harry Hart at the start of Kingsman: The Golden Circle?

Galahad is the Round Table name Harry held in the first film. With Harry back, the sequel's cast list credits both men under it.

Which British director made Kingsman: The Golden Circle, the first sequel he had ever directed to one of his own films?

Matthew Vaughn's return was in doubt at first because of his interest in a Flash Gordon film, and he later called writing the sequel the hardest thing he had ever done.

What is the first visible sign that someone has taken Poppy Adams's poisoned drugs in Kingsman: The Golden Circle?

A blue rash comes first, followed by mania, then paralysis and death, and Statesman's own Agent Tequila is among the early cases.

Which weapons does Poppy Adams use to wipe out Kingsman's headquarters and agents in Kingsman: The Golden Circle?

Missiles strike after Charlie Hesketh's severed cybernetic limb, left in Eggsy's car, hacks the agency's database and hands her the targets.

Which weapon kills Merlin after he swaps places with Eggsy outside Poppy Adams's lair in Kingsman: The Golden Circle?

A land mine is under Eggsy's foot when Merlin takes his place, a sacrifice that lets Eggsy and Harry Hart go on to storm the lair.

Which drink gives the head of Statesman, the American spy agency, his codename in Kingsman: The Golden Circle?

Champagne, shortened to Champ, briefs the British visitors on the cartel and agrees that the two agencies should take it down together.

What kind of London premises does Kingsman acquire in the closing scenes of Kingsman: The Golden Circle?

A tailor shop is the agency's traditional front, and a real Kingsman store opened on St James's Street in the capital shortly before the sequel's release.

What is the real name of Agent Whiskey, the Statesman operative who partners Eggsy in Kingsman: The Golden Circle?

Jack Daniels is a whiskey joke in itself, and after his betrayal the agent's codename passes to Statesman's tech specialist.

Whom does Eggsy marry at the end of Kingsman: The Golden Circle, after she survives Poppy Adams's toxin?

Tilde had taken drugs while upset over Eggsy's undercover seduction of another woman, which is how the cartel's poison reached her.

Eggsy's girlfriend in Kingsman: The Golden Circle is the crown princess of which European country?

Sweden's fictional king and queen also appear, and the king was the final film role of the veteran Swedish actor Björn Granath.

At which music festival does Eggsy plant a tracker on Charlie Hesketh's ex-girlfriend in Kingsman: The Golden Circle?

Glastonbury is where the mission turns awkward: Eggsy tells his own girlfriend about it, and the honesty puts a strain on their relationship.

In the mountains of which country is the cartel's antidote factory hidden in Kingsman: The Golden Circle?

Italy hosts the plant, reached by cable car, and Charlie Hesketh later blows it up, killing his former girlfriend for unwittingly leading the spies there.

What do Eggsy and Harry Hart deploy to carry Poppy Adams's antidote to the poisoned in Kingsman: The Golden Circle?

Drones are launched from a laptop in the villain's lair, and its password comes from the cartel boss herself, drugged with her own product.

Which of Charlie Hesketh's body parts is a hacking cybernetic replacement in Kingsman: The Golden Circle?

An arm, lost along with his vocal cords in the events of the first film, comes off during the opening car chase and breaks into the agency's files from inside Eggsy's car.

Which villain, played by Samuel L. Jackson, did Kingsman defeat a year before the events of Kingsman: The Golden Circle?

Richmond Valentine's scheme cost Charlie Hesketh a limb and his voice, which is how the failed recruit comes to return as a part-machine henchman.

Which actor led the prequel The King's Man, the next film in the series after Kingsman: The Golden Circle?

Ralph Fiennes plays the Duke of Oxford, who founds the spy agency in the early 1900s. The prequel reached cinemas in December 2021, two years after its first planned date.

Which Statesman tech specialist takes over Agent Whiskey's position at the end of Kingsman: The Golden Circle?

Ginger Ale was one of three characters lined up to return in a planned Statesman spin-off, along with Tequila and the agency's chief.

With a concentrated dose of which of her own drugs is Poppy Adams fatally injected in Kingsman: The Golden Circle?

Heroin laced with her own toxin leaves her dazed enough to give up the laptop password before the overdose kills her.

What happens to the US President after he plots to let the poisoned drug users die in Kingsman: The Golden Circle?

He is impeached and arrested for conspiring to commit genocide, having planned to seal the sick away and let the cartel's customers die.

In which country does Statesman buy a distillery to help rebuild Kingsman at the end of Kingsman: The Golden Circle?

Scotland also supplied a real tie-in: a distillery there released a Kingsman edition whisky from 1991 casks, chosen because 1991 is Eggsy's fictional year of birth.

Which comic writer, who hatched the idea in a bar with the director, wrote the source of Kingsman: The Golden Circle?

Mark Millar wrote the original comic, The Secret Service, with art by Dave Gibbons, and said a film sequel would depend on how the first one did at the box office.

Which Hollywood studio released Kingsman: The Golden Circle after moving it from a summer date to the autumn?

20th Century Fox announced the sequel within months of the first film's release, and promoted it with whisky tie-ins and a spoof advert for a Kingsman board game.

Which Dublin-born actor plays Sir Giles, the Kingsman agent codenamed Arthur, in Kingsman: The Golden Circle?

Michael Gambon took a codename that belonged in the first film to the agency's leader, played by Michael Caine. He is best known as Dumbledore in the Harry Potter films.

Which animated comedy's hero met Eggsy in a crossover short made to promote Kingsman: The Golden Circle?

Archer's hero stumbles into the Kingsman arsenal and helps himself, so Eggsy challenges him to a drinking contest. The short was unveiled at Comic-Con in July 2017.

Which actress returns as Roxy, the Kingsman agent codenamed Lancelot, in Kingsman: The Golden Circle?

Sophie Cookson was a newcomer when the director chose her for the first film over better-known candidates such as Emma Watson.

Which breed is the puppy Eggsy threatens to shoot in front of Harry Hart in Kingsman: The Golden Circle?

A Cairn Terrier puppy that looks like Harry's own late pet is the trigger: the threat is what finally jolts him back to himself.

Which legendary outlaw was Eggsy's actor signed to play in a film whose shoot clashed with Kingsman: The Golden Circle?

Robin Hood's studio, Lionsgate, agreed to wait for the Kingsman sequel, and its own shoot finally began in February 2017.

Which screenwriter, the director's co-writer since Stardust, shared the script credit on Kingsman: The Golden Circle?

Jane Goldman also wrote Kick-Ass and X-Men: First Class with the same director, and joined the cast on stage at Comic-Con to launch the sequel.

Which Swiss watchmaker's smartwatch became the official watch of the Kingsman agents for Kingsman: The Golden Circle?

TAG Heuer supplied its Connected model for the sequel. In the first film the agents' watches had come from the British maker Bremont.

Which Canadian actor plays the corrupt President of the United States in Kingsman: The Golden Circle?

Bruce Greenwood shares his scenes with Emily Watson, who plays the President's chief of staff.

Which bourbon brand released a Statesman edition of its whiskey to tie in with Kingsman: The Golden Circle?

Old Forester was the first bourbon sold only in sealed bottles, and its 95-proof film edition was made for the American market.

Which restaurant chain added a Poppy Burger to its menu to promote Kingsman: The Golden Circle?

Hard Rock Cafe's burger was a cheerful nod to a grisly joke: in the film the villain has people who annoy her turned into hamburgers.

Which footballer-turned-actor announced he had joined Kingsman: The Golden Circle but is absent from the finished film?

Vinnie Jones announced his casting himself on Twitter while the film was shooting, yet he never appears in the finished cut.

Which composer, also behind the X-Men: First Class score, co-wrote the music for Kingsman: The Golden Circle?

Henry Jackman shared the job with his partner from the first film, and one of his X-Men cues, Rage and Serenity, is reused in the film.

In which category did Kingsman: The Golden Circle win at the Empire Awards, beating Baby Driver?

Best Thriller went to the spy sequel ahead of Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and The Handmaiden, at a ceremony held in 2018.