Channing Tatum is sharing his candid thoughts on the film industry while taking on the spicy wings of death.
The 45-year-old Magic Mike actor sat down for the latest episode of Hot Ones with Sean Evans.
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During the conversation, he spoke about busting his eardrum, filming an infamous NSFW scene with Sandra Bullock, the impact of streamers on the entertainment industry, and much more.
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On Mark Ruffalo busting his eardrum:
“Mark didn’t mean to f–king pop my eardrum. He just slapped me. I was like, you got to slap me. Like I don’t want to just get like— I don’t want a hundred of these. Just like really do it so we can like move on. And he like cupped my ear and just popped my eardrum. And I was like wow. It’s still not the same but I love that it’s from Mark because he’s like the most beautiful human that you could ever meet in the world.”
On the awkwardness of filming the infamous scene in The Lost City where Sandra Bullock had to pull leeches off his backside:
“So, second day on set. You know you have to walk onto set and you have to be like, hello everyone. My name’s Chan. I know we’ve only had really one more day, or one day to get to know each other. So, you’re going to see my d–k today. We’re going to get to know each other very well. This is my d–k. My name’s Chan. I’ll get to know your names later. And like Sandy having to have like a whole monologue. And that was the weirder thing more than her having to pick leeches off my b–t.”
On the effect of the streamers on the film industry:
“I think now, when you get asked to do a movie, or you’re trying to get a movie made, it’s a very confused pipeline of possibilities. And it really feels like at times that you’re incentivized to make bad things to get paid rather than make something really, really good for f–king the people that actually get to see these things. And like the people that I want to see these movies, the person that I was when I was a kid. And I want good movies. I’m like man I want to give my to like the good movies. It’s such an upside-down moment. But I do believe that the disruption is going to lead to something good. I do believe that. I do believe the streamers came in for a reason. And like it had to change, it had to morph.”
On Hail, Caesar! being the best dancing he’s ever done on screen:
“Yeah, without question Hail, Caesar! When The Coen Brothers came to me, I’m not kidding it was like, I don’t know, five or six lines, it was like a paragraph. This guy like does a knee slide, to a bucket, takes the mop out of the bucket, and like says this thing, and that was it. And I was like I can do that all day. No problem. I’d love to do this part. Thank you, you magical filmmakers that are like two of my favorite filmmakers of all time. And then they’re like so, we’re thinking tap dancing. And I was like oh ok cool, we can work again down the road, I guess. Like I thought they were firing me. And I was like finally starting to feel confident on the tap part and they were like great, it’s amazing that you’re figuring out the tap. So, we’re thinking you’re going to sing. And I’m like, you know what, f–k you guys. Like sincerely. You guys are some of my favorite filmmakers and f–k you. I have gray hair coming out everywhere because of what you guys have put me through. And they were like look it’s fine, we’ll just dub you if you suck.”
On not having the chance to steal his Deadpool & Wolverine costume:
“The only one I haven’t taken to date is the one on Deadpool & Wolverine. Because I was in a cameo, so it was just like a moment. You know it was like a moment where…I wish I did. But I have a plan. Come on. This is chess baby. I’m going to get all them motherf–king costumes like by the end of this thing.”