Channing Tatum
Channing Tatum
Channing Matthew Tatum is an American actor and dancer. Tatum made his film debut in the drama film Coach Carter. His breakthrough role was in the 2006 dance film Step Up, which introduced him to a wider audience. He is known for his portrayal of the character Duke in the 2009 action film G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra and its 2013 sequel G.I. Joe: Retaliation. Although both G.I. Joe films received negative reviews from critics, they were commercially successful,...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth26 April 1980
CityCullman, AL
CountryUnited States of America
My parents let me find my way and that's how they supported me the entire way.
Getting hurt and narrowly escaping death is sort of a thing for me.
Any teen gets into a little trouble here and there. It's not hard to find trouble when you're looking for it as a kid.
When you adapt a book to a film, you take all the best parts and put them into an hour and 15 minutes and have to compromise on the characters.
I do generally all my stuff [stunts] except for motorcycles and cars, that stuff I don't know how to do as well as certain people do.
I don't know if I've ever written anything that's not a bill! I do write stories but I don't put a stamp on them. I wrote a story for my wife over Christmas and gave it to her as a present because she asked me to, but I don't put a stamp on things and send them to people.
I think, even a lot of people that make movies forget is that, in my mind, a movie should work with the sound off. You should be able to watch a movie without the sound and understand what's going on. That's your job, to build a series of chronological images that tell the story.
I like vintage stuff. I go through a vintage store and find things that I feel like I fit right into them because of all the years that they've been used.
I used to work at a puppy nursery.
I have the flying dream a lot where I'm jumping off a building and just flying around.
Comedy doesn't come easy for me. I've only done 2 movies that are really comedy-style films and I have to work at them. And they're just as scary in a way. I hate labeling all these things; comedy, love stories, dark drama, whatever.
In all the movies I'm in love with someone in my head. There's always love in a film somewhere. It doesn't matter even if it's an action movie.
You don't try any less hard on the ones that don't. I've gotten lucky to work with some amazingly talented people that have helped the ones that have worked work. I think you just have to keep doing the stories you love and the characters that you love and are drawn to.
I grew up in Florida, where if you weren't comfortable dancing, you weren't going to get any girls.