Corden dismisses ‘snobby’ critics
JAMES Corden has accused those claiming Beatrix Potter would not have liked his live action Peter Rabbit film of being “snobby”.
The actor and talk show host lends his voice to the famous animal in his first big screen depiction.
It is the first time the Potter estate has given permission for a film but some detractors have said the author, who died in 1943, would not have been happy with the results.
Asked about the mixed views on Potter’s opinion as he arrived at the London premiere of the film, Corden said: “Those mixed views I have never have understood, really. At its core, what the film is about is acceptance.
“That is what the film is actually about so anyone who is being what I would consider snobby about such an experience, I can’t find anything that can be anything other than positive in such a message for young children.”
Matthew Dennison, whose biography Over The Hills And Far Away was published in 2016, has said Potter would not have approved of the film, saying: “Peter Rabbit emerges as a bully, and there really isn’t any evidence for that in the story.”
Peter Rabbit is released in UK cinemas on March 16.