In "White House Down," Channing Tatum was challenged to harness his inner John McClane and more or less single-handedly rescue the president after the White House gets taken over. In his next film, "Jupiter Ascending," he's going to flex his muscles as the next Keanu Reeves, performing action sequences for "Matrix" filmmakers the Wachowskis that are meant to outdo even what Neo was capable of.
Tatum spoke with MTV News at the press day for "White House Down," where he also revealed a few details about the arduous shoot for "Jupiter Ascending," which he admitted was pushing him in directions that he had never gone before.
"It's crazy — it's a tough movie," Tatum told MTV News' Josh Horowitz. "We're trying to do stuff that's never been done before, in three different aspects. We're trying to do stuff that's never been done in CG before, we're doing stuff with cameras that's never been done before, and we're trying to do stuff with stunts — like, actual, real stuff so we don't have to use a bunch of CGI stuff."
Tatum's pedigree as an action star is expanding at an exponential rate. Although he appeared in "Fighting" and the first "G.I. Joe" a few years ago, his supporting turn in "Haywire" led to not only "White House Down" but the opportunity he's currently, ahem, "enjoying" on the set of the Wachowskis' latest.
"We just did a shot yesterday that was unreal. It's a trailer shot," Tatum revealed. "It's something exciting and something kind of scary at the same time, when everybody's sitting around ...
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