James Corden slammed by director for 'obnoxious' on-set behavior: 'He was bullying me'

foxnews.com:

Former television director Craig Duncan says people frequently ask him who in the industry has been most difficult to work with, to which he can respond with a definitive answer: James Corden. "The most difficult and obnoxious presenter I’ve ever worked with is James Corden," he revealed in a YouTube video shared to his channel. "He's a bully.

He was bullying me, I think" Duncan told Fox News Digital of the late-night host. "He was truly awful to me and many other people… by all accounts.

Why should celebs get away with it?" he asked, while also questioning the integrity of the entertainment industry. Duncan alleges that he was approached about working with Corden in 2013 on his British sports-comedy panel show, "A League of Their Own."  Prior to filming, he claims production asked him, "How are you working with difficult presenters?" Having worked with personalities in the past, Duncan believed he could do the job, although the production company requested he come to a rehearsal just to "witness James at work." In his YouTube video, Duncan explains that during rehearsal, Corden was dismissive of a pre-written joke.  "He just looked at it and was like ‘That’s not funny, that’s not funny.’ He was like, ‘That’s s---.

We have to rewrite that. We have to rewrite this.' And I don’t know, maybe he was having a bad day… but I definitely thought, ‘Man, somebody wrote that, not nice, but you know television isn’t for the faint-hearted.… Sometimes you have to take these knocks on the chin." On the day of filming, the rest of the cast and crew were exceptionally pleasant, according to Duncan.