-Let me be the first to sa
congratulations,
'cause it's midnight.
Officially, your album
is out right now.
-Yes. Yes, yeah.
[ Cheers and applause ]
-Congratulations.
-Thank you.
Yeah, I've been waiting
for a while, man.
It's like four years
in the making.
-Yeah. I want to get into this
but first I want to talk about
young Louis back in England.
I heard stories that you at on
point wanted to become an actor.
Is that true?
-Yeah, kind of.
[ Laughter ]
It's not funny yet.
[ Laughter ]
Yeah, I started going --
My twin sisters, they starte
doing some filming
'cause they're identical.
And films would use them
'cause they could actually
you know, they could use les
time 'cause they look the same
so they could pay less.
-Yeah.
-Smart.
-Very smart.
-So I start going down
with me sisters,
and my mum kind of hustled m
a few times extra roles.
So because of that,
after I did a couple of them
I did like maybe three or four
acting lessons
but not proper, not proper
I never had a line
or anything like that.
They never gave me one.
-No, they didn't.
-No, no.
Obviously, I'm not good enough
Do you know what I mean?
-Well, you're great --
-Bull[bleep] Bull[bleep]
-But, I mean, did you ever
do plays or anything?
-Yeah.
That, I'm not going
to lie about.
So, I'd just failed my
"A" levels at this one school,
which is like the higher
education in England.
And I'd been at that one schoo
the whole time,
and then I moved to this other
school called Hall Cross
And I remember seeing on lik
the second day being there
that there was
auditions for "Grease."
And I wasn't sure
that it was the best way
to announce meself as a new kid.
Also, where I grew up in
the North of England, Doncaster,
it wasn't that cool to do plays,
do you know what I mean?
So, I was a little bit tentative
to get involved.
But in the end,
me mum pushed me to do it,
and then I got Danny,
and I absolutely loved it.
And that's probably why --
I mean, I reckon
it gave me the bug.
It gave --
Oh, whoa, yeah, absolutely
It gave me the bug.
It gave me the bug, I think.
-You got the bug to do it all.
And you were doing --
You were Danny Zuko?
-I was Danny Zuko, yeah.
Are you going to embarrass m
and pull a clip up now?
-No, I would never embarrass you
and pull a clip up.
That would be ridiculous.
I want to show everyone a clip
Here's Louis...
[ Women cheering ]
...as Danny Zuko in his school
production of "Grease."
Take a look at this.
-I changed my plans.
[ Man coughs loudly ]
-[ Laughs ] That's good!
That's good. "That's cool.
Let's go, you guys."
Come on.
-Wow. Wow. Wow.
-That is fantastic. Hey.
Look at you now, man.
Look at you now. Come on.
-Very different.
-"Walls." "Walls" is out
right now as we speak.
Congrats on this.
This is your first solo album.
-Mm, yeah.
[ Cheers and applause ]
Thank you.
-How does it feel?
How does it feel to have a -
-It's a relief to be here.
I mean, as I said before,
it's been four years
in the making.
And what I was I was used
to with One Direction
was like an album a year,
you know?
So I've had to be, like, patient
and, like, sensible
and kind of, you know,
understand the process.
I feel like I've learned a lot
along the way.
But I think it took me
a couple of years,
18 months, 2 years,
to actually find my feet
and work out who I am.
-Yeah.
-'Cause I had to do
all that developing
kind of, you know, naturally
'cause I left One Direction.
We left One Direction,
and then we're onto this.
So naturally, you know,
there's a lot of eyes on it,
and I think I had to do
my developing, you know,
in front of everyone else.
So there was a bit
of treading water.
-Sure.
-But I feel like
where I've landed on,
and especially with this singl
that I'm going to perform
tonight, "Walls,"
yeah, I'm really proud of it
really proud of it.
-Yeah, all your singles
have been fantastic.
They've been streamed
over a billion times.
[ Cheers and applause ]
A billion times.
-Yeah.
-You're about to go
on a world tour in March..
-Mm-hmm.
-...for this record.
You're playing your hometown
for the first time?
-Yeah, so, where I'm from,
Doncaster, North of England --
I'm really excited, man.
Everywhere I go,
Doncaster is me football team,
so I'm always saying
how much I love Doncaster,
but I've never had
the chance to play there.
The venue that I'm playing
I spent a lot of me youth there.
It's like --
It's like a leisure center
You can go, like, swimming
ice skating there.
Do you know what I mean?
Go to the gym if you want.
But I spent a lot of time ther
as a kid,
so it's going to be
really special for me.
A lot of me friends, famil
going to be there.
I'm excited.
-They must be so proud of you.
Dude, thank you so much
for being here
and performing on our show
-Thank you, man.
Thanks for having me.
-The album is out now. "Walls.
Louis Tomlinson!
