When most people go on Howard Stern’s show, celebrities usually get really honest. Channing Tatum was no different. When Tatum was on Stern’s show, Tatum said that he hated being in G.I. Joe: The Rise of the Cobra. Tatum said,
“Look, I’ll be honest. I f–king hate that movie. I hate that movie! I was pushed into doing that movie, from Coach Carter.”
Of course Stern was surprised to hear this. These were one of the movies that opened up more doors for the actor. Tatum went on to say that the studio “signed me to a three-picture deal.” As a young actor, he said,
“You’re like, ‘Oh my God, that sounds amazing!’ I’m doing that!’ Options go from like $60,000 to like $80,000 to like $100,000. I’m like, ‘Oh my God, that’s so much money!’ Even if I just get one other of those movies, I’m good. So time goes by and you get other jobs and you’re building your quote and things happen and you have a dream job that you want to go do, and the studio calls up and they’re like, ‘Hey, we got a movie for you. We’re going to send it to you.’ And it was right during the writers’ strike. And it’s G.I. Joe. I’m like, ‘Look, G.I. Joe? I love G.I. Joe. Can I play Snake Eyes?’ And they’re like, ‘No. You’re not playing Snake Eyes. Hey, you’re doing this. You’re doing this or we’re going to sue you.’”
Stern then said how any actor would want to have a title role, but Tatum said “The script wasn’t any good,” and that the movie was just “bad.” The actor went on to say the struggles of being essentially typecasted:
“You get another G.I. script, because that’s what you get. Or you just get another action movie or something, which isn’t bad either. I don’t know. I’ve always tried to change it up.”
This would be why he’s done movies like Dear John, Magic Mike, and 21 Jump Street.
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