Popular actor Channing Tatum can’t stand the movie that made him a star. Speaking in a very candid interview on Sirius XM’s The Howard Stern Show yesterday, the Magic Mike XXL actor shared his true feelings about 2009′s G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra.
“Look, I’ll be honest. I f—ing hate that movie. I hate that movie. I was pushed into doing that movie,” Tatum told Stern.
Why the hostility for a film that made $302 million worldwide one may ask? Tatum says he didn’t want to make the movie, but had signed a three-picture deal with Paramount after his film debut in 2005’s Coach Carter. When the studio called him with G.I. Joe, he had ‘no option’ but to take the role he was offered — which wasn’t even the one he wanted to play.
“I’m like, look, I love G.I. Joe. Can I play Snake Eyes?” And they’re like “No, you’re not playing Snake Eyes, you’re playing Duke,” he recalled. “The script wasn’t any good… and I didn’t want to do something that I thought was (1) bad, and (2) I just didn’t know if I wanted to be G.I. Joe.” He said.
Tatum also acknowledged that he’s ‘super lucky and blessed’ to have done G.I. Joe, since its success put him on the map.
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