Channing Tatum Movies: Gambit Role Is Dream Come True For Hollywood’s Top Hunk! Actor-Producer Denies 40 Million Paycheck For ‘Magic Mike!’

Channing Tatum has movies lined up, but there are two in particular that hits too close to home. "Magic Mike" is pretty much his autobiography and Gambit-whichever movie he would appear in, is a role he has aspired since his geek days.

Channing Tatum a geek? GQ should know. In a revealing interview, he narrates the full story of how he got the role:

"..he does talk about one other movie he is after-to play the Marvel mutant Gambit, "the only superhero I really followed.... He was the most real to me: smoking, drinking, women-loving, thief. He just looked cool to me. I've always loved him. And obviously he's Cajun." Tatum was nearly cast in the role near the beginning of his career for X-Men: The Last Stand, but then Gambit was written out of that movie, and when the character was eventually used, in the first Wolverine film, Tatum wasn't available to compete for the role because he was tied up with G.I. Joe. Taylor Kitsch got the part. But now Tatum would like to make a Gambit movie. As of yet, nothing is fixed. "We're talking about it. I'm proactively sort of going after it. And I feel bad, because I really love Taylor Kitsch as an actor and what he did with the part, but you know, you've got the things that you would really love to do and see."

Since this interview, X-Men producer Lauren Shuler Donner has confirmed that basically, Channing Tatum IS Gambit.

That sounds very good for the "White House Down" star: "I'm not as good as I want to be, but this is fun. This is just being a kid again. Just kind of getting to do whatever, and it doesn't matter."

Another perk of being the a Hollywood A-lister (aside from playing out your childhood fantasies on the big screen) is that you earn a ton of money. Like $40 million that he got from his overall participation in "That is not true at all. That goes to show you that people on the Internet have truly no idea how the film industry-"

That allegation is actually supported by Forbes magazine..who are probably a bit more than 'people oon the internet. He still defends himself: "That's how sad it is, that movie people don't even know how the actual film industry makes money. That's how crazy it is right now. It's the Wild, Wild West right now. For movie people to think that anyone made $40 million by themselves on a movie is absolutely insane. We knew with the equation that essentially Steven and Greg [Jacobs, Soderbergh's producing partner] thought up, we were going to make this movie for absolutely nothing and we were going to make money, because we made it with a structure that pretty much you couldn't lose money."

Chill out Channing! It's not the IRS.