Channing Tatum on ‘Dog,’ ‘Magic Mike,’ Marvel and his hiatus
11.02.2022 - 17:51
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dog to his funeral, opens in theaters. It will be quickly followed-up next month with another film starring Tatum, “The Lost City,” a comedy with Sandra Bullock.But as Tatum reenters the spotlight, he says he never really meant to disappear in the first place.“I didn’t step away like ‘I’m out of here,’” says Tatum.In the last five years, Tatum launched the touring stage show “Magic Mike Live” and penned a children’s book inspired by his 8-year-old daughter, Everly.
In 2018, Tatum and Jenna Dewan, who had been married for nine years after first meeting during 2006’s “Step Up,” announced their split. All the while, Tatum’s screen appearances — a handful of cameos and voice roles — were fleeting.“Time just kind of got away,” Tatum said in a recent interview from Los Angeles.
“Really, being a dad sort of just swept me away for almost four years. I kind of got lost in doing that.”“I acted for almost 10 years and I sort of needed to take a step back,” he adds.
“My career was kind of my whole life. Everything revolved around what was I going to do with my career.”“Dog,” the directorial debut of both Tatum and his longtime producing partner, Reid Carolin, was a way to get back to making the kind of movie that excited them about the business in the first place.
Like the “Magic Mike” films that Carolin wrote, Brigg’s road-trip encounters make for an American odyssey navigating polarized views of patriotism and politics.“I didn’t want to just go jump in somebody’s movie,” says Tatum. “We wanted our next thing to be something that was our story, that we did, and not just make something because we could.”Tatum and Carolin spent years — Tatum estimates four and half years for himself — developing a Marvel project that ultimately never
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