Por que o apelido de Gary Unwin é “Eggsy”?

De acordo com Mark Millar - o autor da revista em quadrinhos - em uma entrevista à Comic Book Resources :

And on the "changes over time" front, I understand that "The Secret Service" will make a slight change to Jack's name. What precipitated this? Did "Jack London" just feel the call of the wild?

Funny you should say that because, as a kid, I just thought that was a cool name and I wrote it into the book because I liked it. But Matthew said legally we couldn't call him that in the movie any more than we could call him Tom Clancy. So we bounced a lot of names around and, since I named Gary after one of my friends, he renamed Jack after his oldest school-friend. In the original draft of the comic I gave Gary my friend's old nickname of "Eggsy" because I thought it was funny, but thought everybody would hate it. But Matthew and Jane loved it and used that as Gary's nickname in the movie so I've worked it back into a couple of panels in the book. I kind of love the madness of a superspy called Eggsy. Matthew thought it was really iconic and since I named this after one of my pals he felt it was only fair to call the other after one of his.

Ele disse a mesma coisa no Twitter em 17 de julho de 2013:

I gave Gary the nickname EGGSY in Secret Service after a school pal, but thought it was too mad. Now it!s in script. Pal will be chuffed!

Millar oferece esta explicação para o apelido em uma entrevista com Den of Geek:

Den of Geek: Director Matthew Vaughn used both the phrase “good egg” and “bad egg” in talking about the characters in this film. It dawned on me that the lead character being called Eggsy might not be an accident.

Mark Millar: It’s my old school friend’s name. One of my three best friends that I used to hang around with, and the reason he was called Eggsy - and he wasn’t a tough guy or anything like the character in the film - is just that he didn’t like eggs. We were all about fourteen and having dinner at somebody’s house and there was an egg in the meal and he said “Oh, I don’t eat them.” I said “Who doesn’t like eggs?” “I’ve never tasted one.” “You must have! Are you kidding me?”

I dedicated the book to him.

Existe uma banda muito popular de goldie lookin que um dos membros da banda é chamada de eggy. A maneira como Gary se veste é muito parecida com a maneira como os ovos envoltos em corrente de ouro ao redor do pescoço, com o chapéu de rapper e com um capuz. Por isso, pode ser uma referência a isso.

Eu não sou do Reino Unido e Inglês não é minha língua materna, então sinto muito pela minha resposta ridícula. Quando Charley zomba de seu nome, ele diz isso como "ovo" para mim, é um ovo pequeno. Depois que Arthur zomba disso quando diz que Roxy tem "os ovos" diferente de você Eggsy. Então, eu acho que Eggsy é o tipo de gíria - o garoto-pau, aquele com os ovos. Desculpe pela minha suposição ridícula.

Quando ele é criança, depois que seu pai morre, Harry pergunta a ele qual é o nome dele. Ele atende Eggsy, é quando Harry lhe dá a medalha com o número do telefone nas costas. Então não tem nada a ver com quando ele é mais velho, ou um apelido, etc., é o nome de nascimento dele e mostrado logo no começo.