Despite being in huge Hollywood movies like Deadpool and Wolverine, Channing Tatum has admitted he wondered if he should have gone into acting during his break from the screen
Channing Tatum questioned whether he was “good enough” an actor during his break from films.
The 47-year-old Hollywood star has appeared in huge films like Magic Mike and Deadpool and Wolverine. However, the former stripper has admitted he had doubts about being an actor when he took a break from the business.
Tatum took a hiatus from leading film roles for nearly five years, starting around 2017, and ended up wondering if he was right for the industry.
He told Variety: “I was working too much. I got burned out. I was questioning if I ever should have been in this business, because I didn’t feel I was good enough. And I got to a place where I didn’t know what I was doing. No one tells you how to do fame.”
He’s also revealed there’s more pressure on him to pick the right projects as he’s now got a daughter. Making movies requires a lot of commitment, so he wants to make sure he’s spending his time wisely.
The star – who has Everly, 12, with his ex-wife Jenna Dewan – said: “Better to have enjoyed doing the movie and thought that the process of making it was worth it.
“Because you have a kid now, and you had better be able to answer to her, ‘Why weren’t you there?'” Channing is keen to show off his acting chips and wants to go on a “10-year-run” of projects.
He said: “It’s a funny joke in my head, but… I’m going to do the big Marvel stuff and then help with gorgeous filmmakers and characters that I can flex some of the s*** I’ve learned in the last 20 years.
“I keep saying it. I’m going to do a 10-year-run.”
Channing plays a real-life master criminal called Jeffrey Manchester in Roofman, a new comedy-crime drama, and he loved working with director Derek Cianfrance. The hunk said: “He knows exactly how to move the conversation along, and take care of you in it. He understands that you don’t understand exactly.”
The actor made his film debut in the drama movie Coach Carter (2005) – but has admitted he was learning on the job back then. He told Extra: “I was getting jobs before I knew what even acting was or how to do it.
“I was doing all, like, kinda on-the-job training in a way, just being like, ‘Okay, just say the line naturally,’ instead of actually understanding what acting is and what this, like, beautiful gift is.”
Admitting he learnt a lot from simply watching movies, added said: “I was watching movies and I’ve learned so much from movies, more than I’ve learned from school or anything else or books or anything.
“Movies are probably my longest relationship in my life. I don’t know, I just love them so much. They’re magical.”
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