Channing Tatum says turning down Guillermo del Toro project was the biggest mistake of his career
Why Channing Tatum regrets turning down Beauty and the Beast role
- Channing Tatum has stated that declining a role in Guillermo del Toro’s unproduced Beauty and the Beast adaptation was the biggest mistake of his career.
- At the time, Tatum had just become a father to his daughter Everly and was working on a demanding film, with the script for del Toro's project not yet complete.
- He expressed deep regret, calling himself a huge fan of del Toro and believing the film would have been exceptional.
- Del Toro's Beauty and the Beast adaptation ultimately never went into production.
- Tatum's latest project is Roofman, a biopic where he portrays Jeffrey Manchester, a former army ranger known for breaking into buildings by drilling through roofs.