Roxy Morton's Recruitment
From fellow recruit to the new Lancelot.
Roxy Morton enters Kingsman in Kingsman: The Secret Service as one of the candidates competing for the place of Lancelot, an agent killed by the assassin Gazelle. During training under the technical support operative Merlin she becomes friends with fellow recruit Gary "Eggsy" Unwin, and in the end the two of them are the only candidates left.
Quick Facts
- Character
- Roxy Morton
Lore & Background
The final test asks each remaining candidate to shoot the puppy they were earlier given to raise. Eggsy refuses and fails; Roxy becomes the new Lancelot, and the gun turns out to have been loaded with blanks. She then joins Eggsy and Merlin against Richmond Valentine and destroys one of his satellites.
Reader's Guide
Roxanne "Roxy" Morton is played by Sophie Cookson, for whom it was a first big-screen role. Director Matthew Vaughn cast her in September 2013, preferring a newcomer over better-known candidates such as Emma Watson and Bella Heathcote. Cookson returned as Roxy in the 2017 sequel Kingsman: The Golden Circle.
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