Channing Tatum talks G.I Joe

[WyldeMan45]

This sounds rather funny, I guess G.I. Joe won't be as serious as I thought, but the kung-fu grip and sold separately lines crack me up!



We caught up with Channing Tatum a couple of days back to chat about his new bare-knuckle biffo-flick "Fighting" and needless to say, another little film he's done came up in conversation. Here's a smidgen for our upcoming interview with the amiable young actor, in which he discusses Stephen Sommers' "G.I Joe"

What were the challenges of playing the lead in a huge Hollywood movie, ''G.I. Joe''? It’s not only daunting, that type of a film in general, for a seasoned actor or an actor that had done one of those films before, lower on the call sheet. I had no idea what I was doing. I had no clue. I was terrified of the movie. I had really no aspirations to go do a huge film like that really, not yet in my career. I didn’t really feel ready for it. I kind of got thrown into it. In doing so, it really opened my mind to it’s just acting. It’s a different style of acting. It’s more skipping along the surface and it is about the big explosions and stuff. You’re not sitting there trying to do Shakespeare.

How do you take the work seriously when you can’t take the film seriously? You kind of find it. It’s weird, and you laugh at it. It’s the only way to really do it. I don't know anyone that wasn’t laughing on the set all the time on G.I. Joe. Especially, Marlon Wayans is my partner in the movie and we laughed through the entire thing. I’m sitting there looking at a green screen like, “RIPCOOOORD! NOOOO!” Stuff like that and you’re just like what am I doing? Or you’re like, “You get the rockets, I’ll get the nanomites. Wait a minute, what are nanomites?” I don't know what’s going on but you’re just having fun with it. You just pray. Pray, pray, pray that they get a good take in all the slew of things because you don’t know what anything looks like. You don’t know what you’re reacting to and they’re like, “Look right!” You’re like [gasps]. Then they’re like, “Look left!” And you don’t know what’s happening. You can only trust your director and that’s it.

Is that the overacting everyone’s talking about? Exactly. I was afraid of overacting but that’s what you can’t be afraid of. You don’t have to overact. I was the guy they’d have to pull it out of me. I’m like, “No, man, it just feels too bad. I can’t do it.” He’s like, “Just trust me. Promise me you’re going to do it and then I promise you I won’t use the take if it’s not right.” Then I’m like okay. Ugh. I do it and it’d just be pulling teeth. You see it back now. I haven’t seen the movie but I’ve seen ADR and stuff and it fits. You can’t believe it. You thought you were just the worst actor on the planet.

What was the line you thought you’d never say with a straight face? Every one of the lines, every single one. What was the one that was, and I don't think they actually made it into the movie, was “Action figures sold separately.” Something like that. They wanted me to put it in the film. Then there was like Marlon, Marlon actually, it wasn’t me, Marlon had a line that was like, “And a kung fu grip.” Because all the Joes had a kung fu grip. He had to say that about somebody that grabbed him. He was like, “Oh, he’s got a kung fu grip.” I was like, “That ain’t ever gonna work. That’s never, ever going to be in the movie” and it’s in the movie and it works a little bit. All the fan boys will be like, “Yeah!” And anybody that doesn’t know about the kung fu grip will be like, “Oh, whatever, it’s just what he chose to say right then.”

So it’s self-referential? Yes, it’s very [self-referential], sometimes. Just for the wink at the crowd.

http://www.moviehole.net/200918663-c...m-talks-gi-joe

[MacDaddyOJack]

Well, I was excited for GI Joe..... I had no idea that guy from "Fighting" had the lead roll..... and Marlan Wayans!!!!

[RiseDarthVader]

This is sounding really bad. Constantly referencing the toys? I'm not going to have high hopes going into this.

[Teabaggins]

just when I thought I couldn't set the bar any lower for this movie.......

this actor, "Channing", sounds like a real genius as well. I saw an interview of him during the last UFC and he could barely put a sentence together

[P@t_Mtl]

Go JOE!

[Teabaggins]

don't you mean "Yo Joe"?

[WyldeMan45]

Originally Posted by Teabaggins

just when I thought I couldn't set the bar any lower for this movie.......

this actor, "Channing", sounds like a real genius as well. I saw an interview of him during the last UFC and he could barely put a sentence together

Channing pretty much seemed too nervous/high to be there, and he just let Cung do the talking

[ScarredLungs]

Originally Posted by MacDaddyOJack

Well, I was excited for GI Joe..... I had no idea that guy from "Fighting" had the lead roll..... and Marlan Wayans!!!!

What is going on here!!!!! My hopes are getting lower and lower

[SPH]

Could this guy say "like" anymore times in a sentence? Damn, people need to like learn how to like articulate themselves without saying like.

My wife does it from time to time and I break her balls about it. Is it xyz or is it not xyz?


This is too bad I thought this movie was going to be cool, it is starting to sound weak.

[P@t_Mtl]

Originally Posted by SPH

Could this guy say "like" anymore times in a sentence? Damn, people need to like learn how to like articulate themselves without saying like.

My wife does it from time to time and I break her balls about it. Is it xyz or is it not xyz?


This is too bad I thought this movie was going to be cool, it is starting to sound weak.

The one that always kill's me is the "you know". hockey players seem to love that one here in Canada "we played well you know but in the end you know we lost but I am sure that you know next time we will do much better you know"

[SPH]

Originally Posted by P@t_Mtl

The one that always kill's me is the "you know". hockey players seem to love that one here in Canada "we played well you know but in the end you know we lost but I am sure that you know next time we will do much better you know"

Yep, another "filler"


If you cant think of anything to say stop talking and resume after you have a complete though..

Maybe everyone should have Marine corps grammar lessons. My drill instructors would have loved " this recruit like didnt know"

[Blu-Benny]

i have no interest in seeing this movie.

[WyldeMan45]

Originally Posted by Blu-Benny

i have no interest in seeing this movie.

Yeah It would have been niced if he'd just lied and hyped the movie, but I will still see it.

[thelonecynic]

I wish that they took the movie seriously and that what we were getting was a military drama, something like Black Hawk Down or Tears of the Sun, but with a theme of dealing with domestic terrorism that was Cobra. Oh well. It's too bad I won't be watching this one.

[GIHAADWARTS]

Originally Posted by WyldeMan45

This sounds rather funny, I guess G.I. Joe won't be as serious as I thought, but the kung-fu grip and sold separately lines crack me up!





Marlon had a line that was like, “And a kung fu grip.” Because all the Joes had a kung fu grip. He had to say that about somebody that grabbed him. He was like, “Oh, he’s got a kung fu grip.” I was like, “That ain’t ever gonna work. That’s never, ever going to be in the movie” and it’s in the movie and it works a little bit. All the fan boys will be like, “Yeah!” And anybody that doesn’t know about the kung fu grip will be like, “Oh, whatever, it’s just what he chose to say right then.”

So it’s self-referential? Yes, it’s very [self-referential], sometimes. Just for the wink at the crowd.

[WyldeMan45]

Originally Posted by GIHAADWARTS

Exactly I think working in those terrible little references to the toys is just funny.

[Meeklo]

They need to incorporate the line "And now you know, and knowing is half the battle." into the movie somewhere.

Or even better would be the lines from the Fensler Films spoofs:

Porkchop Sandwiches!

Nice catch Blanco Nino, too bad your ass just got saaaaaaaaaaaaaacked!!!

Who wants a body massage?

Mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mi

Look at all you kids with your cute little hats. <-said with a lisp

[WyldeMan45]

Originally Posted by Meeklo

They need to incorporate the line "And now you know, and knowing is half the battle." into the movie somewhere.

That'll be the last line of the movie, just like Transformers did with "More than meets the eye"

[assydingo]

I want to see this. Channing Tatum is a pretty cool guy.

[Monkey]

Originally Posted by WyldeMan45

That'll be the last line of the movie, just like Transformers did with "More than meets the eye"

They need the little shorts on not swimming in water during lightning storms, etc etc