Okay, somebody at Vanity Fair really LOVES Channing Tatum.
This is his third cover and second one solo!
That’s basically Marilyn Monroe status!
The Magic Mike XXL actor broods and shows off his arms on the August issue, and gets totally soaking wet while dancing in the rain in the spread!
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Isn’t that just kick-you-in-the-crotch, spit-on-your-neck fantastic?! We certainly think so!
Also let it be known that we drew the thought-bubble doodle on his head before we even read this passage in the magazine:
“I learned how to act in auditions, not even in movies, but by reading for Thug Number Two or Thug Number One,” Tatum told me. “You’re trying to learn by reading three lines and hoping that you get the part. I’ve been at it for 10 years├óΓé¼┬ª. Now I get to start asking questions, when before I was ├óΓé¼┬ª ” (A lot of Tatum’s sentences end in ellipses, which drift above his head like thought bubbles.)
!!! We’re on the same wavelength with that VF writer!
Besides the pictures, this sweet assessment of childbirth and Channing’s wife Jenna Dewan-Tatum has to be the best part of the feature:
“It was crazy. You feel helpless. We like to think of ourselves as big, strong men, and we could handle whatever situation. And reality is [that women] are so much stronger than we could ever be. There’s a reason why we weren’t given that job, evolutionary or whatever. My wife, she’s a warrior. She did it as natural as you can. [As a man], you’re basically a cheerleader. ├óΓé¼╦£Come on, baby, you can do it.’ I would’ve tapped out in the first.”
He also reveals his own insecurities about being a father:
“It’s scary. You made this thing and have to bring it into the world together. You think people are going to be there, but ultimately you just have each other. Knock on wood, everything goes well, now you have a baby. They’re like, ├óΓé¼╦£O.K., here you go.’ They hand it to you, and you’re like, ├óΓé¼╦£Uh, wait a minute. Aren’t you guys going to come home with us and make sure we’re not screwing this thing up?’ I think every parent has that moment where they’re like, ├óΓé¼╦£Oh, maybe this was a bad idea; we don’t know how to do this.’ You can’t put it back in there. It doesn’t go that direction. But Jenna is a super mom. There’s no other way to say it. She is there every single second, every single day. I love being a dad. They’re like little mirrors running around. They show you things about yourself you wouldn’t pay attention to before. Jenna says it all the time: ├óΓé¼╦£Oh, my God, that is so you right there.’ But I don’t know if I’m good at it.”
Oh, Chan, we’re pretty sure you’re great at it!
The actor and former stripper also admits he wouldn’t mind getting onstage one more time:
“Well, we’re going to start a [Magic Mike] show in Vegas, and I’ll never say never. I wouldn’t mind going out there and doing it one more time. Or maybe twice. But, you know, every time I’ve put on a thong and am getting ready to walk onstage again, I’m like, ├óΓé¼╦£Why do I want to do this?’ It’s very uncomfortable to be in a thong in front of a thousand people.”
Please, let this happen! Pretty, pretty please!
And apparently we can thank Jenna for all the thongs in the movie:
“That was going to be one of our plot points. To thong or not to thong. But my wife was like, ├óΓé¼╦£You cannot have a movie without these guys getting in thongs.’ “
To thong, always.
That’s not even all of it, though — Channing also does the funky chicken, the robot, the running man and more in a video from the shoot!
Watch it (below)!
[Image via Vanity Fair.]
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