Egerton's 'Everybody Wants to F*ck Me' Premieres at TIFF — SkimNews
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- "Everybody Wants to F*ck Me" premiered at the 2026 Toronto International Film Festival and is currently seeking U.S. distribution, per the review.
- Taron Egerton stars as Adam Samuels, a London manwhore whose pick-up artist tactics are turned against him when he becomes the object of every woman's obsessive desire, with the reviewer calling his performance "impressively sympathetic even at its most shit-eating."
- Jessica Henwick plays Sofia, the grad student who brings Adam to her cult-like house share, where a drug he underestimates triggers the supernatural curse.
- Charly Clive plays Emma, Adam's lesbian best friend who serves as his wingwoman while her own life "speeds towards permanent domesticity" with a pregnant partner.
- The film riffs on "What Women Want" and the 2014 film "Obsession," using a gender-reversal premise to visualize the aggressive attention women face; the review highlights effective Tube and office-bathroom scenes but argues the script raises stakes without meaningfully forcing Adam to confront his behavior.
- The critic's verdict is that the movie is "ultimately a lot more base and basic than it presents on the surface," with a final scene cheekily admitting it was using social motifs to "coerce" viewers into spending a night with it.
Why it matters: The film's TIFF debut and ongoing U.S. distribution search hinge on whether buyers warm to a high-concept gender-reversal horror comedy that Variety's headline calls "giddily genre-crossing" while this review finds cynical and ultimately hollow. For Egerton's career, the movie tests whether his star power translates to edgier indie genre fare outside the Kingsman franchise mold — with no U.S. distributor attached yet, his post-franchise pivot has no guaranteed landing pad.
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