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channing tatum, the vow

There's no escaping Channing Tatum.

The 31-year-old actor has half a dozen films scheduled for release in 2012. First out was last month's taut action thriller Haywire from director Steven Soderbergh. It's followed this month by the romantic tearjerker The Vow. In March, Tatum goes back to school as an undercover cop in the big-screen revival of TV's 21 Jump Street. In June, he'll both reprise his role of supersoldier Duke Hauser in G.I. Joe: Retaliation and relive an earlier part of his life in Magic Mike, Soderbergh's tale of a male stripper that's based partially on Tatum's youthful experiences. And then there's the independent high school reunion movie, Ten Year, that Tatum co-produced and co-stars in with, among others, his wife Jenna Dewan.

They met on the set of the 2006 dance hit Step Up, which also marked Tatum's first major splash as a leading man. The gregarious Southerner says he made Haywire for her, and he isn't entirely joking.

"It's kind of like a female Bourne Identity," Tatum explains during an interview in Beverly Hills. "My wife always hates when I go, 'I just don't love female action movies.' I don't know why. I'll watch them, but I don't run to go see them. I'd say, 'Find a girl that can, pardon my French, whup my ass, and I will go to the movie.' And they did! They went and found one [mixed martial arts champion Gina Carano], and she did! And it was awesome. I truly loved it."

In The Vow, it's his heart that gets whupped.

"It's pretty tumultuous — it's turbulent, to say the least," notes Tatum, who stars opposite Rachel McAdams in the film. "It was based on something that really happened. Two people, madly in love, get in a car accident. It leaves her with amnesia of the last three years, and she entirely forgets me as her husband. I want to make her remember what she doesn’t remember, I have to make her fall back in love with me.

"The movie is about an odd kind of unrequited love," Tatum continues. "He loves this person so much, but she doesn't love him, and it's the same girl who fell in love with him. It really creates a lot of beautiful opportunities for tension and conflict and misunderstanding."

channing tatum, rachel mcadams, the vow Tatum and McAdams in The Vow (Courtesy of Sony Pictures)

Co-starring with McAdams, the Canadian romance queen, was a highlight of Tatum's career. "Rachel is, by far, one of the most beautiful little souls, and actresses, that I’ve ever had a chance to work with," he says. "I mean, she's as sweet as she appears on screen. I promise you, there's a reason why she keeps working. She's one of the most talented people I've ever encountered."

We didn't ask whether Tatum felt as gushy toward his Jump Street co-star Jonah Hill who also co-wrote the spoof of Johnny Depp's old cops-and-teens show (Depp makes an appearance in the movie). As for the sequel to his G.I. Joe feature that was napalmed by critics, Tatum just says, "It's substantially different from the last one."

There's much more to say about Magic Mike, however. Born in Alabama, Tatum spent some childhood years in Mississippi. By the time he was a teenager, his family had relocated to Tampa, Florida, which, along with being home to an international port, is a big military and university town.

Logically, "Tampa was the strip-club capital of the United States for a while," Tatum explains. "It even beat Las Vegas for a time."

So, when he came of age, the good-looking lad saw an easy opportunity to make some quick bucks. "I did male revue type stuff for eight months or so," Tatum fondly remembers. "It was a good time, man. I can't be like, 'Oh, I'm so ashamed of that.' I'm not ashamed of it. It was fun. I was 18, I was in Tampa, I didn't have any money and it was just something that I was doing. It was crazy and it was an experience."

Vaguely aware that stripping would not make a good lifelong calling, Tatum split for the much larger city of Miami, with a foggy notion of finding a career path. "I wish that I knew that I'd wanted to act then," he admits. "I just moved down there to be in a bigger metropolis, just find a job in any kind of corporation and move my way up. There wasn't really a plan."

His future did come into focus in Miami, but not in the way Tatum expected. "Someone saw me down there on the street and thought I was right for modelling," he explains. "That moved me to New York, where Bruce Weber discovered me and put me in Abercrombie ads and then Vogue. I did that for two-and-a-half years, walked into a Pepsi commercial audition, got the thing by accident, and loved doing it so much that I took an acting workshop right after that. In 15 minutes, I was just hooked, and I've been doing nothing but that since."

If Tatum has any regrets about his misspent youth, well, the career he loves seems to have taken care of them, too.

"I wish I could go to school now," Tatum says. "I have more of a calmer disposition now, just more into reading and the discipline of learning. I wanted to do anything but learn when I was growing up. But it kind of worked out, I guess. You get to research all different types of stuff doing these roles, which I guess is pretty conducive to my ADD. I get to do something intensively for three months, then I jump off of it and into something totally new. It’s really fun for me."

Bob Strauss lives in L.A. where he writes about movies and filmmakers.



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