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The actor is featured in a two man Guvnor in the West End, but fears that people continue to associate it with bad deeds he had after his success with Gavin and Stacey. The will of his new memoir redeem his public image?

In a small room on the side of The Guardian, starring Al Pacino frowns on us a poster, James Corden leads a master class in modesty. He is calm, content, and reflective. He rubs his nose, chin hitting, taking into account their responses, and if he had a lock of hair, I suspect he throws. The main message is how lucky he is. He feels privileged to be an actor, he says, to appear on television, stunned by the magnitude of his career with in amazement at the National Theatre. "I feel lucky that I am able to do many different things," he said. "I am constantly amazed that I could, you know?" If I were a super hero, the man is humble. Jumping small mounds in a few stuttering steps stumbling

Corden It is not expected to meet him. Certainly not one that makes people shudder Corden. Every time I tell someone I'm interviewing him shudder visibly shocked explodes and noise through the nose. The consensus seems to be that the actor, comedy writer, co-creator of the hit sitcom Gavin and Stacey, sports presenter of the program a league game, is arrogant and loud, laddish humor and dated thespy has appeal, the air their rights. In addition, more essentially, is to draw attention.

The title of his new autobiography - Can I have your attention please? - Confirm that the last point. I expected the book to be a

mea culpa

, an attempt to win people, and in part. Corden said that over the last 18 months or has changed dramatically, as falling in love with the love of Julia and son Max Carey workers baby. But surely no secret which side draws air from the room. In the first pages, he writes about his first memory of four years, standing on a chair at the baptism of his younger sister, grinning all the people laughed. "I felt good. Really well, "he writes. "In my mind has become simple: if people are looking at me and only me, it's an incredible feeling, and it was from that day, every day has become a quest to be seen to care for people ..... that "

sought an explanation for this enormous need, riffling the pages with the growing desperation. A dead father? Dead brother? Turtle dead? Nothing. It is true that his father was once a musician in the Royal Air Force who was deployed to Iraq in early 1990 as an orderly, while Corden said the day was announced was one of the worst of his life - and the day his father returned the best - is strangely flat in the story. Write to go to RAF Uxbridge for the home, and started in a bad mood on the restaurant. "Someone had tried to establish a" buffet "in the dining room, but it should be disturbed only had a lot of small bowls of chips -. -. garbage fries and two bowls of peanuts Now that everything is beautiful, but it's not a 'buffet'. "This continues for some time. As I scribbled in the margin:" serious "

I wonder if it was to draw the attention of the whole school. There is a long pause. "Yes, I was, and is not something I feel particularly comfortable, so I chose this title for the book. Because when I look back, I think, God, it ' is all that I have never been close. And this has been the case not long ago, it's the truth, and I wonder exactly what was missing or did not .. . I have no idea what could be, because [my experience] could not be more stable. I wish I had some type story in which I was, you know, just like a child, but n 'There was none of that. If you find my two sisters who are very sociable, very confident. They are brilliant artists. absolutely could. But just not' t have that kind of hunger or desire, while for I was burning inside. "

physically, has long been on the long side, and when I was in school, he said, were "two ways to go. You can hope and pray they do not care or can in some ways almost become a target because it is more difficult to intimidate something that is very large. It is easy to intimidate anything that is small and fragile. And I think a few years, when Gavin and Stacey was great, I think likely - and only realize this now, not when -. I think probably he did so, I thought that if I become a target more, so I do not know ... "Queues outside." I read some interviews and I think now, oh my God, you just sound so arrogant and do not remember wanting to be the case. "

was asked to write the book, apparently, to the tune of seven figures, and said her first thought was: "I have nothing to say ... And I do not know if this is true or not, but it was a great comfort to be told that Kenneth Branagh, wrote to 26. "(He was 28.) Corden was 33." I thought, well, I have a lot of meaning in the last year a new chapter in my life begins, so in that sense, he very enjoyable. And at times very painful, watching someone I really feel I have more. "

I can not help but think he should have honored your first instinct. The first third of the book deals with their growing years in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, with his mother, a social worker and his father, who is now a Christian bookstore. All were in the Army Hi, and seems to have been a life almost comical enviable without incident. Write about joining a school team rugby, going to drama school, forming boy bands fans.

Their stories suggest a slight slip - hide a report from the school of their parents, college bunk, which calls for an agony aunt television and posing as a student with problems. Later comes the story of all for me. He writes: "If nothing happens the fun, so I will make a difference for me." So while working on Gavin and Stacey and stay in hotels, room service, "and when I sat in the corner and started to cry, cry really like Will Ferrell Anchorman. The hotel staff were poor so ashamed that he had turned the set and run. "He made five or six times. (My thoughts are with the story at the end of the interview, when the publicist Corden arrives to take him to the next appointment. In the hall we met a famous journalist from another newspaper Corden, who knows, and fall into conversation excited. I was about to leave, but we said goodbye. I try to touch his shoulder by little I apologize quickly. Nothing. I can talk to agent charming in their shoes.'s all a bit uncomfortable. I begin to wonder, idly, how he treats servers Corden. And I realize that, in his autobiography, he has given at least one eye-popping answer.)