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Showing Off a Very Different Side: Channing Tatum said getting the chance to mix things up and play an entirely different sort of character was fantastic. “It was beautiful. I hadn’t really considered myself…I thought I had acted a little bit. The parts that I had done were kind of, they’re fun. They’re fun but they didn’t have this depth. They didn’t have the sincerity, the seriousness of [this]. It was just such a different thing than I had ever even read before, much less had an opportunity to be in and be a part of. It was the first time I ever really considered myself doing something that was, in my opinion, a real acting role, where you really have to step outside what is just on the paper and really look deep and find a love in something that you love. I just love this movie and I love the character. I love everybody else’s character. I think if you could only be blessed to do more movies like that, that’s what you should do.”
What’s Changed Since Step Up: “A lot,” answered Tatum. “All of a sudden, the studio heads are turning and kind of being like, ‘Oh, who’s this kid?’ It’s so weird. Nothing’s changed. I haven’t changed. Everything’s still the same, it’s just all of a sudden they did a movie that didn’t cost a lot of money and we accidentally did really well. I don’t know if ‘accidentally’…that would be the wrong word. We love the movie so much, it was a lot of fun to do, we just never imagined it was going to do as well as it did.”
