British actor, writer and comedian James Corden feels homesick.
The Late Late Show host, who is also the voice of Peter Rabbit in a major new movie that mixes live action and animation, may be planning an exit from the US when his chat-show contract ends in 2020. Or so it seems from his interview to Event Magazine.
“I’m almost certain that we won’t live here forever because... I just don’t think we will,” he said, and added: “This point right now is the only time since we moved here when I’ve experienced genuine homesickness.”
Isn’t Los Angeles a lovely place to live in?
“It was. For a while it’s lovely. For a time it’s great. With young kids it feels like a really great place to live. But then? I don’t know.
“A lot of it is psychological. You think we would be like, ‘Ah, this is the life’, and I’m unbelievably conscious that this is all great, amazing. But at some point — and this is just life — the phone is going to ring and in that instant we’re going to feel a million miles away from people who might need us. That’s what weighs on my mind,” said Corden, who has children Max, six, Carey, three, and a new daughter, Charlotte, born in December, with wife Julia.
Corden dreads a call from home to say something is wrong.
“That starts to inform your decision, when you think about what the future may or may not hold. The money is lovely, but time is the only thing that actually exists. It’s the only currency you’re ever dealing with, and all you’ve got is this point right now. Time with people, time to do stuff — it’s the only thing that matters.
Corden flew his parents, sisters, nieces and nephews over for Christmas at his own expense.
What’s it like being a British TV host in Trump’s America?
“You’ve got to earn the right to be a voice in the conversation. Imagine if some American guy came onto British TV and started talking about post-Brexit Britain. The people of Hull, Plymouth, Newcastle and Oxfordshire would go, ‘What would you know? You didn’t grow up here! And don’t think that just because you live in London you know what represents Britain.’
“In the same way, living in Los Angeles is not a reflection of what America is or stands for.”
