Channing Tatum says rejecting Beauty and the Beast role was “one of the biggest mistakes of [his] career”.
Channing Tatum regrets turning down Beauty and the Beast role
The 45-year-old actor was to play 60-year-old filmmaker Guillermo del Toro‘s version “of the Beast”, but he rejected the idea because he had just welcomed his daughter Everly, now 12, who was born in 2013, with his ex-wife, 44-year-old actress Jenna Dewan, and he was busy working on another movie.
Tatum told Vanity Fair: “One of the biggest mistakes of my career – Guillermo del Toro wanted to do Beauty and the Beast, his version of the Beast.
“And I’d just had a baby, I was on a movie that was absolutely killing me, and the script wasn’t totally there yet. I was just in a place in my head that I was like, ‘I don’t think I can do this right now.’
“It was the biggest mistake, because I’m the biggest Guillermo fan ever.
“And I think Guillermo doing Beauty and the Beast would’ve been the sickest movie ever.”
The film star – who did not reveal which film was “absolutely killing me” – said del Toro never made his version of Beauty and the Beast.
Tatum’s Roofman co-star Kirsten Dunst, 43, asked him in the Vanity Fair interview: “And he never did it?”
The actor replied: “He didn’t do it.
“He’s got a billion other things that he wants to do. He’s such a creator. I’ll probably never forgive myself on that one, but I hope we get to work together one…
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