“I had been a fan since I was little and had watched it every morning growing up—I didn’t want to do a bad version…”
channing tatum recently faced the polygraph of Vanity Fair Y He confessed to having tried to reject being part of ‘GI Joe’ up to a total of 7 times. Having failed to successfully get out of that negotiation, he requested that his character be killed off in the sequel.
It is not the first time that the actor has been dissatisfied with his 2009 film. However, he had never made such an explicit reference to what his selection process was like in the action film.
“In the first one, I rejected it seven times, but they had chosen me and I had to make the film,” Tatum commented. “So when the second one came, I obviously didn’t want to do it either.“
After this, the interpreter continued affirming that had insisted that his character be killed off in the first 10 minutes of the 2013 sequel, ‘GI Joe: The Revenge’, to be able to finally separate from the franchise.
“Do you regret that decision?“asked the interviewer.”Not,“he responded forcefully and embraced by the tape of a lie detector that confirmed his answer.
“I will be honest. I hated that movie. I hate that movie” he had commented moments before on the Howard Stern tape. “They made me do it. Since ‘Coach Carter’, they made me sign a 3-title deal… They give you a contract and say: ‘3 films, here you go.’ When you’re a young actor, you’re like, ‘My God, this is amazing, oh yeah!'”
“After, time goes by, you get other jobs, you get closer to your dream project and… the studio calls you and says: ‘Hey, we have this movie for you, we’re going to send it to you.’ And it turns out that when it comes to you it’s ‘GI Joe,'” Tatum confessed.
“I used to love GI Joe. So I ask, ‘Can I play Snake Eyes?’ To which they say, ‘No, you’re not going to be Snake Eyes, you’re going to be GI Joe.’ The script was not good… I had been a fan since I was little and had watched it every morning growing up. —I didn’t want to make a bad version (first) and second, I didn’t even know if I wanted to be GI Joe.”
‘GI Joe’ got bad reviews upon its release. Nevertheless, received a great reception in terms of audience adding a total of 300 million dollars of collection at the worldwide box office. its sequelstarring Dwayne Johnson, it raised even more and reached 375 million dollars. The franchise tried to be resumed in 2021 with the premiere of ‘Snake Eyes’, led by Henry Golding. However, the latter only raised 40 million, a huge drop compared to its predecessors.
Source: Fotogramas
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