![]() "Yeah," Tatum says, beaming, as though each separate part of this is its own good news. I put it to Tatum that this, apparently, is the line: The public is happy to accept him being butt-fucked as a gimp, but not cutting off James Franco’s leg and drinking his blood. "Audiences just don’t want to see Channing Tatum do that.… They want to see him do almost everything except eat James Franco’s foot." It felt weird in a good way." He sees this as an example of a more general principle: "I get one shot at life, and I can say that I’ve lived a crazy one, and I’ve pushed the limit almost at every turn, and I’m super proud of that." "If you put on a jockstrap and a Mexican wrestling mask and you think reserve and dignity is anything in your near future…" Tatum shakes his head and explains the mind-set he applied to the role: "Be as crazy as I could possibly be, and have fun. "Only a true insane person would try and play a gimp that’s on a leash with reserve and dignity, in my opinion," he reasons. If there was a way to carry off this role with a certain self-protective poise, Tatum magnificently failed to find it. ’You’re Danny McBride’s sex slave, you’re like his gimp.’ And I was like, ’All right, I’m in.’ " "It was just the most wrong idea I’d ever heard. ![]() "All he had to say was ’Danny McBride,’ ’leash,’ and ’a Mexican wrestling mask,’ " says Tatum. Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg were already deep into shooting their grotesque apocalyptic comedy, This Is the End, when Rogen contacted Tatum and asked whether he would consider a cameo appearance. ![]() Let’s consider the improbable premise that the most revelatory performance of Channing Tatum’s ever escalating movie career is one that he filmed over two drunken nights in New Orleans in 2012.
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