The writer Jez Butterworth recounted recently that he grew up about “10 miles and 10 years” apart from James Corden, the star of his anticipated new TV series Mammals, “but we actually met at the Met Ball…”
Though a world away from the St Albans and High Wycombe of their youth, they hit it off immediately at the glitzy New York gala in 2019. “It was really weird,” Butterworth says. “Straightaway there was this complete tuning in to Herts/Bucks borders in the mid-Eighties. You know what it’s like when you meet someone who you just sort of know that it’s going to work?”
