The actor said show creator Dennis Lehane "saw in me the potential to do something I hadn't done before" Warning: this story contains spoilers from episode 2 of Apple TV+'s Smoke. Taron Egerton stars in Smoke as an arson investigator pursuing two serial arsonists with the help of a detective Episode 2 of the Apple TV+ series offered a big twist for Egerton’s Dave Gudsen The actor said show creator Dennis Lehane "saw in me the potential to do something I hadn't done before" during a panel at the Tribeca Festival Taron Egerton is lighting up the screen in Smoke.

On their trail we find the arson investigator Dave Gudsen (Taron Egerton) and Det. Michell Calderon (Jurnee Smollett). The nine-episode series co-stars John Leguizamo and Greg Kinnear. It's based on the podcast "Firebug," about the real-life arsonist John Leonard Orr.