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 Channing Tatum
Interview By: Andrea Tuccillo
It has been said that Channing Tatum is Hollywood’s new “It” boy, but this former model-turned-actor is not taking anything for granted. His acting career developed completely by chance after he was approached by an agent on a street in Miami and asked if he would like to try his hand at modeling. Tatum gave it a shot, booking a couple of commercial spots as well. A memorable Mountain Dew commercial got him noticed by the film biz, and soon scripts started coming his way. He took acting classes, became obsessed, and now he’s starring in the gritty true-life drama A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints. He has come a long way from being known only as the boy with the pretty face, and he admits that acting provides a depth that modeling never had. “You are just yourself and you look how they tell you to look and that’s really about it, so it’s not that complicated,” says Tatum of his modeling days. “That life is a little weird because you get kind of thrown into this thing where everyone is telling you you’re beautiful and then you get kind of self-absorbed, you get kind of vain. You’re looking in the mirror a lot and you’re like, ‘Oh what am I doing? I never did this before!’” In A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, Tatum’s character is the farthest thing from a pretty-boy model. Tatum plays a young wayward youth named Antonio growing up in Astoria, Queens in the 1980’s. He’s tough, irreverent and prone to self-destructive behavior with his group of friends. The movie is based on director Dito Montiel’s real life and the character of Antonio is based on Montiel’s childhood friend. “My only line for who this guy was, was Dito,” Tatum says. “I could not have done any of this without him. I mean, he knew the guy and was his best friend. He was my only barometer for who this character was. I could walk around Queens all day and listen to how people talk but I wouldn’t know this guy.” Tatum immersed himself in the role, and had to develop a clear understanding of Antonio’s actions and motives. “He’s not so much brutal, it’s just all he knows,” Tatum explains. “I don’t know if he’s so much vindictive about anything he’s just—it’s more reactive. It’s like an animal. If you abuse an animal, it’s going to be abusive…if you hurt him, he’s going to hurt you. That’s kind of Antonio’s thought and he doesn’t care about that many people in his life. I don’t know if he had any other place to go but prison because eventually it was all just going to come to a head one day.” Tatum recognizes his character’s faults, but also felt sympathy for the young man with the not-so-bright future. “He was a beautiful ticking time bomb to me,” he says. “His heart was so big but he just didn’t have anyone there ... |
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