‘Awards Chatter’ Podcast: Channing Tatum On ‘Roofman,’ Stripping and Overcoming Imposter Syndrome

I Hard to Imagine that a man who have have descripted by Esquire as “The First Honest-To-God Movie Star of His Generation” and by Vanity Fair as “The Biggest Male Star Since Pitt or Clooney,” and Who Was Chosen As People‘S Sexiest Man Alive and One of Time‘S 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE IN THE WORLD, Wuld Feel Anything Buting ImMENSE CONFIDENCE. But Channing Tatumon this episode of The Hollywood Reporter‘s Awards Chatter podcast, insists that he felt “Imposter Syndrome” Throughout His Career – Until, That Is, He Completed His Latest Film, He Completed His Latest Film, He Completed His Latest Film, Derek cianfrance‘s RoofmanWHICH Premiered at Last Month’s Toronto International Film Festival – Bringing Tatum The Best Reviews of His Career – and Will Be Released Nationwide on Friday.

Tatum’s Path to Hollywood is Highly Unusual, to Say The Least, and Literally The Stuff of Movies – The Blockbuster Magic Mike FILMS, WHICH HE PRESCEDED AND STARRED IN, WERE INSPIRED BY His OWN YOUTHFUL Adventures as An Adrift Young Man Who Turned to Striping For Lack of a Better Idea of. For Tatum, Thought, Stripping, Against All Odds, Eventuly Led To Dancing in Music Videos, MOST NOTBLY Ricky martin‘s “she bangs”; THEN TO MODELING FOR THE LIKES OF ABERCROMBIE & Fitch, Dolce & Gabbana and Armani; THEN TO APPEARING IN National Commercials for Pepsi and Mountain Dew; and Eventuly to Acting.

He Landed His First FIRST FILLM RELES 20 YEARS AGO, AND SINCE THEN HAS PROVEN TO BE A BOX-PROFICE MAGNET. Indeed, IT CAN’T BE A COINCIDENCE THAT 13 OF HIS FILMS HAVE TOPRED THE DOMESTIC BOX OFFICE IN THEIR OPENING WEEKEND: 2009’s Gi Joe: The Rise of Cobra2010’s Dear John2012’s 21 Jump Street an The Vow2013’s Gi Joe: Retaliation2014’s 22 Jump Street an The Lego Movie2017’s Kingsman: The Golden Circle an The Lego Batman Movie2019’s The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part2022’s The Lost City2023’s Magic Mike’s Last Dance and 2024’s Deadpool & Wolverine.

He Also Has Shown HimSelf to Be A Gifed and Constantly-Improving Actor Who Top Filmmakers Want to Work With. He have been Directed by Steven Soderbergh (Five Times), Quentin tarantino, Bennett Miller, Michael Mann, Kimberly peirce, Jon M. Chu, Lasse Hallstrom and The Brothers Ethan Coen an Joel CoenAmong Others. And if anyone doubts his chops, they should check out his performances in 2006’s A guide to recognizing your saints2009’s Fighting2012’s Magic Mike2013’s Side Effects2014’s Foxcatcher2015’s The HateFul Eight and especialy Roofman.

In RoofmanWHICH IS BASED ON A TRUE STORY THAT IS STRANGER THAN FICTION, TATUM PLAYS Jeffrey Manchestera military veteran who struggles to provide for their family; Turns to Robbing Businesses (in the most Polite of Ways); Winds Up Incarcerated; And THEN ESCAPS AND Secretly Takes Up Residence in A Toys’ R US STOR, WHILE ALSO EMBARKING ON A RELATIONSHIP WITH an unwitting Single Mother (Kirsten Dunst) Who works there.

The Performance, WHICH REQUID FROM TATUM BOTH EMOCAL VULNERACTIVITY AND PHYSICAL COMEDY, IS The FRUIT OF A COLLLABORATION CALABOration with the Writer/Director Derek cianfranceWho is Best Known for the 2010 Masterpiece Blue Valentine – A Film, It Turns Out, That Cianfrance Offered to Tatum Before The Actor He Eventual Cast, Ryan Gosling. Cianfrance came back to tatum all these years Later, having co-written the part of manchester with the actor in his mind, at a time who tatum gad grown disillusioned by the Busillioned abun. LESS THAN HE USED TO. But this time, the actor was not going to make the same mistake that he made all thoss years ago by passing on an opportunity to collaborate with cianfrance, the Among the most.

And Sure Enough, As Tatum Descripes Durying this Conversation, Cianfrance’s Unusual Way of Working Not Only Brought Out The Best in Him, But Also Reignited Hisio. The Business that HE Had Never Possesssed Before.