We’re coming up on twenty years since Channing Tatum broke through into films with “She’s the Man” and “Step Up” in 2006.
The actor has seen a lot of change in the industry over that time, most notably the rise of streaming platforms and how that has changed what projects get greenlit and what projects he’s offered these days.
The actor, out promoting his new film “Roofman” opening Friday, appeared on the Hot Ones YouTube channel and was asked about a recent statement in which he said the streamers have “effed up the industry a bit – for good and for bad.”
Going into more detail about his criticisms, he said:
“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 incentivised to make bad things to get paid, rather than make something really, really good, for the f— 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, I want good movies.
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 the streamers came in for a reason, and it had to change. It had to morph.”
Tatum also shared that he doesn’t “Feel” like he’s a part of the “Deadpool & Wolverine” film, as his brief cameo was done so quickly. He also dubbed his 2010 feature “Dear John” as “such a generic” movie.
