With reporting by Josh Horowitz.
Actors often strive to build up diverse bodies of work, and Channing Tatum is among them. After all, he’s played strippers and college students, street dancers and macho little cartoon soldiers (like in the new “The Book of Life,” out today).
There’s just one little hitch in the plan: now he has a kid, and that kid will someday have both the dexterity and the access to watch all of those movies on whatever replaces Blu-ray players in the future.
“The PSA just goes like this: Everly, I’m sorry,” Tatum said, when asked what he’d like to tell his daughter when she’s old enough to see his movies.
Tatum, who said that he’d show his infant daughter his latest family-friendly movie now — not that she’d remember it — ran through highlights of his filmography and guessed how old Everly would have to be to see them. For the “Jump Street” movies, for example, “there’s a lot of bad words in that, and some vulgarness, so I’d say 14, 15.”
You may be surprised, however, at when he’ll let her see “Magic Mike” and the upcoming “Magic Mike XXL.” That would appear to be… now.
“Look, she’s on the set of number two,” Tatum told MTV News. “We’ve just decided alright, we’re gonna immerse her in it from day one of that world so I don’t ever have to sit her down and say, ‘we need to have a talk.’”
“The Book Of Life” is in theaters now.
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