James Corden didn’t do himself any favours when he allowed the awards and plaudits for Gavin & Stacey to go to his head.
He became, in his own words, brattish and behaved in ways that threatened to flush away the love he’d won with his award-winning sitcom.
The savage reviews for his TV sketch show with pal Mathew Horne and their horror spoof, Lesbian Vampire Killers, made 2009 a chequered year. Corden, though, rallied with a brilliant, Tony-winning performance in the Broadway production (following its acclaimed London run) of the stage farce One Man, Two Guvnors.
‘That was such a gift of a role,’ he says, when we meet in London. ‘I used to say to people, when I was doing it, that it’s not that it plays to my strengths, it ignores my weaknesses.’
Without the show, Corden believes he wouldn’t have ‘even had a look-in at doing Into The Woods’ – a movie of the Sondheim musical being filmed at Shepperton Studios – with the likes of Meryl Streep and Johnny Depp.
And nor, probably, would the Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein have tapped him to play Paul Potts in One Chance, a Billy Elliot-like comedy/drama about the diffident, opera-singing Carphone Warehouse salesman who became the first winner of Britain’s Got Talent.
Read the full story here: http://metro.co.uk/2013/10/25/james-corden-acting-is-such-a-weird-thing-to-want-to-do-its-so-silly-4160319/
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