In recent years Channing Tatum has become a megastar in Hollywood. He does everything from Tarantino films to Brom Coms with Jonah Hill.
You may know him best as a stripper in the Magic Mike series, but if you're a true Tatur Tot, then you'll love these lesser known facts about him.
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1/22. Channing severely burned the end of his penis during the filming of The Eagle when a crew member poured boiling water down his wet suit in an attempt to keep him warm. The water would normally be diluted.
2/30. His big break was being cast in Ricky Martin's music video "She Bangs," where he was paid $400 for a seven day shoot.
3/22. Magic Mike's $6.5 million budget was self-financed by Channing Tatum and director Steven Soderbergh.
4/22. Emma Watson was so weirded out by his performance in This is the End that she had to leave the set.
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5/22. He has modelled for Abercrombie & Fitch, Dolce & Gabbana and Aeropostale.
6/22. He claims that having a child made him 'fappy' - fat and happy.
7/22. His family has lived in the American South for many generations, at least since the 1700s.
8/22. The "Chicago" scene in Jupiter Ascending was the longest sequence in the script and, on it's own, required Mila Kunis and Tatum to film every day for six months.
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9/22. Has said of male stripping: "Men go to strip clubs for a pretty simple reason. It's a carnal, visual thing. The point of male stripping is to bring women onstage and embarrass them so their friends can cheer them on. Women go to watch their friends' faces turn red and to have a night of camaraderie with their girlfriends."
10/22. The scene in Foxcatcher where he breaks the mirror is real and was unscripted. He got so into the role that it just happened.
11/22. He worked as a construction worker, a mortgage broker, a salesman at the cologne counter of Dillard's, and a worker in a puppy/kitty nursery before started a modelling career.
12/22. He was sent to a military school in ninth grade, where he joined the football team and intended to get a scholarship to play after graduation.
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13/22. He moved from Alabama to Mississippi at age 6, where his family lived on a bayou.
14/22. His being cast as Jody Domergue in Quentin Tarentino's The Hateful Eight could be viewed as an homage to Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), where Leone cast Henry Fonda as the primary antagonist.
15/22. He auditioned for the role of Gambit in X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) before the role was eliminated, but will portray him in X-Men: Apocalypse (2016).
16/22. He received a full athletic football scholarship at Glenville State College in West Virginia, but he dropped out of college.
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17/22. His favourite childhood film was the adventure comedy film The Goonies.
18/22. He was originally very intimidated by the idea of dancing in the Step Up movies, since he was not a professional dancer.
19/22. He made the transition from modelling to acting because he did not find modelling challenging enough.
20/22. He became a father for the 1st time at age 33 when his wife Jenna Dewan Tatum gave birth to their daughter Everly Elizabeth Maiselle Tatum on May 31, 2013.
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21/22. He learned 1940's style tap dancing for the Coen Brothers' Hail, Caesar!, in which he plays an actor working in a 1950 musical/dance movie called "Last Call".
In a barroom scene, with a dozen dancing sailors, his dance work required highly acrobatic tap combined with swing style. Doing his own work, one number included going from a standing position in front of the bar to a sustained handstand on the edge of the bar, culminating in somersaults to the end of the bar.
22. He passed on the film 21 Jump Street twice before being convinced by Jonah Hill to take the role.
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Ok, who is watching the clock? Those seconds aren't going to count themselves. The only way to understand time is to be its witness. Although that can get depressing. Let's focus on the light and cool.
History...
Calculate Figure It Out GIF by OriginalsGiphy"If you are an 80-year-old American, you have lived through approximately 1/3 of our nation's entire history."
Those Days...
"The 80s were 40 years ago."
"This is what messes me up because I was born in 82 and graduated high school in 2000 so for some reason my brain is stuck on the 80's being twenty years ago. The 70's thirty years ago etc etc. I have to stop and realize sometimes that my concept of how long ago things happened is way off."
Time goes by...
"We observe that light travels at 186,000 miles a second, but given the vast size of the observable universe, that's a snail's pace. But from the point of view of a particle of light, time doesn't even exist."
"Time slows down as you approach the speed of light, and theoretically stops completely when you reach the speed of light."
Years Gone By...
"MLK Jr. and Anne Frank were born in the same year."
"Betty White was born in 1922. Automatically pre-sliced packaged bread loaves became commercially available in 1928. Betty White is six years older than sliced bread."
Long Live the Queen!
queen elizabeth images GIFGiphy"The queen and Marilyn Monroe would've been the same age."
"And Marilyn Monroe and Andy Griffith were born on the same day!"
- osme1
I swear Liz is going to outlive dirt. Wait, I believe she already has. Well she won't be alone, she'll have Betty White. At least she better have Betty. Time is nothing without Queen Betty.
TV Time
Season 2 Omg GIF by Paramount+Giphy"Happy Days was a TV show made in the 1970s-80s about teenagers in the 1950s. Similarly, That 70s Show was made in the 90s-00s about teenagers in the 70s. If a similar show were to be made today, it would be about teenagers in the 2000s."
- VVillyD
A Croc
"If a T-Rex imagined a creature as ancient as the T-Rex is to us, it would be a Stegosaurus. If that Stegosaurus imagined a creature as ancient as the Stegosaurus is to us, it would be a Crocodile. If that Crocodile imagined a creature as ancient as that Crocodile is to us, it would be a Shark."
On the Clock
"On a twenty four hour clock the amount of time that humans have been on the earth would total around five seconds."
"How about this one: If Homo Habilus first appeared at midnight, 24 hours ago, that means the first Homo Sapiens appeared at 9:25 PM, or about 2 and a half hours ago. The first human civilization, in lower Mesopotamia, appeared at 11:57 PM, or about 3 minutes ago."
"The Western Roman Empire fell at 11:59 PM, or 1 minute ago. Everything that has happened since - the Crusades, the Plague, the discovery of the New World, the world wars, all of it - has happened in the last minute of human existence."
And that's just OUR Sun...
"The span of our lives are so insignificantly small that our Sun will last another 5 billion years. That's 9 zeros people. Our eldest live to around 100 in the best places. That's 50,000,000 (50 million) times longer than any person can reasonably expect to live. And that's just OUR Sun. The universe as a whole has probably existed for magnitudes longer than that already and will continue to exist until the end of time as we know it."
Tell Me a Story
william shakespeare GIF by will herringGiphy"We know what a good storyteller Shakespeare was but there were Greek playwrights who wrote shows nearly 2,000 years earlier that are pretty good, too."
I hate time. Only because I'm petty and irritated of the amount I squandered. That's neither here nor there though. Time marches on and continues to amaze. I'll keep watching.
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