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James Corden Is LEAVING The Late Late Show
James Corden was almost a nonmigratory of the Shire.
On the Dec. 27 episode of the Happy Sad Confused podcast, the Late, Late Show host confirmed that helium auditioned for Peter Jackson's 2001 film The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.
"Every azygous idiosyncratic successful London auditioned for Lord Of The Rings," helium told host Josh Horowitz. "Everybody. I auditioned for Samwise. I was doing the accent and everything."
Although the audition process was "not good" for Corden, the late-night big shared that helium did onshore a 2nd chance, as he was called back. "Two of my different friends went successful [to audition] and past we each got called backmost the adjacent day," he recalled. "Then we got called backmost the adjacent day."
But, arsenic fans of the franchise good know, Corden didn't publication the role. In fact, according to Corden, "None of america got called backmost aft that."
Eventually, the relation of Samwise ended up successful the hands of The Goonies alum Sean Astin.
But it's not excessively precocious for the speech amusement big to absorption connected his acting vocation arsenic helium announced his departure from The Late Late Show earlier successful 2022. Set to permission the amusement up of summertime 2023, the host, who took implicit for Craig Ferguson, is hoping to prosecute much acting opportunities.
"It's been it's a truly hard determination to permission due to the fact that I'm truthful immensely arrogant of the show," Corden told Deadline connected Apr. 28. "I'm thrilled to beryllium extending [for a year]. I ever thought I'd bash it for 5 years and past permission and past I stayed on. I've truly been reasoning astir it for a agelong time, reasoning whether determination mightiness beryllium 1 much adventure."
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In the meantime, The Late Late Show airs astatine 12:37 a.m. ET connected CBS.
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