Channing Tatum explained why he feels streamers have “effed up” and “confused” Hollywood and the moviemaking process.
In a recent appearance on Hot Ones with Sean Evans promoting his upcoming film Roofman, Tatum got the opportunity to clarify his statement.
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“I think, now, when you get asked to do a movie, or you’re trying to get a movie made, it’s a very confused pipeline of possibilities, and it really feels like, at times, that you’re incentivized to make bad things to get paid, rather than make something really, really good, for the fucking people that actually get to see these things and people that I want to see these movies, the person that I was when I was a kid,” The Lost City actor explained. “And I want good movies.”
He continued, “I’m like, ‘Man, I want to give my money to the good movies.’ It’s such an upside-down moment, but I do believe that the disruption is going to lead to something good. I do believe that. I do believe the streamers came in for a reason, and it had to change, it had to morph.”
Elsewhere on the show, Tatum threw light zingers at his past projects, calling 2010’s Dear John a “generic” movie and saying of his recent Deadpool & Wolverine cameo, “I was in it for two seconds, so I don’t feel like a part of that,” while guessing the projects in his filmography based on logline.
In addition to Roofman, which is bowing in theaters Oct. 10, Tatum has a slew of projects forthcoming, including: Kockroach also starring Zazie Beetz and Oscar Isaac, family-friendly comedy Dance Partners with Charlize Theron, an Amazon MGM Studios film about the Isle of Man Tourist Trophy Race that he is also producing alongside Brad Pitt, thriller-drama Josephine from Beth de Araújo with Gemma Chan, star-studded alien invasion comedy Alpha Gang and Warner Bros. action-comedy Calamity Hustle co-starring Ryan Reynolds.
Watch the full episode of Hot Ones below:
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