The 41-year-old, on the verge of releasing a slate of huge tasks after a short hiatus, covers the difficulty with an accompanying cowl story titled "Channing Tatum's Second Act."
Channing Tatum’s pre-blockbuster profession included stints as a go-go dancer and mannequin, and he places the abilities perfected within the latter self-discipline to good use within the newest situation of VMan Journal. As the duvet star of VMan 48, the spring/summer time situation shot by high shutterbugs Inez and Vinoodh, Tatum smolders in a sequence of photos that put the 41-year-old’s physique on full show.
Chest-baring and speedo-wearing images apart, Tatum caught up with longtime pal and 21 Soar Road comrade Jonah Hill for the wide-ranging interview that covers his packed slate (directorial debut Canine, a job reverse Sandra Bullock and Brad Pitt in The Misplaced Metropolis, starring in Pussy Island for director and rumored flame Zoe Kravitz, and a return to stripper type in Magic Mike’s Final Dance), life as a single dad, and his road type.
Of the Bullock and Pitt pairing, Tatum provides, “There’s no stunning factor in any respect to me once you meet Sandra. She’s simply precisely who you need her to be — probably the most fantastic, sensible sweetheart. She produced the movie and is aware of each single factor on the set and the way a lot it value, form of particular person. Brad [Pitt] on this film is hilarious. If we ever do Soar Road 3, now we have to — I’m telling you, he’s comedian gold for those who put him with the precise character.”
He additionally praises one other co-star within the Aaron and Adam Nee-directed movie. “I’ll let you know who’s in all probability my favourite actor now,” he says, “Daniel Radcliffe.”
Tatum additionally opens up on his life after divorcing actress Jenna Dewan. The previous couple share a daughter, Everly, and he says it’s been a journey discovering his footing as a single father. “I do know that I preferred to behave and play make-believe and magical issues, however I simply didn’t know if I used to be going to have the ability to meet her on her degree, particularly now that I’m a single dad. I used to be doubly afraid. Was I going to have the ability to do any of the stuff that a mom ought to do? That a mom, as a lady, can relate to her as? After which as that journey unfolded, I noticed that each one I actually needed to do was simply go into her world and do no matter that's that she needed to do.”
As for what he needs to do, Tatum says he took options from Hill and Kravitz to be himself on the type entrance. “Some pals of mine, such as you and Zo [Zoe Kravitz] had been like, ‘Why don’t you simply put on what you put on? Why don’t you simply be you?’ You gave me some very particular type suggestions.”
See extra photos from VMan’s newest situation, styled by George Cortina, under. Tatum’s Canine debuts Feb. 18, with The Misplaced Metropolis following not far behind, on March 25.
