When you consider Channing Tatum, there are some things that might first come to thoughts.
You may understand him as certainly one of Hollywood’s motion males because of his muscle-baring roles in motion pictures like Foxcatcher, G.I. Joe, and Fighting.
He has in any other case established himself as a comedy goofball, leaving followers in hysterics by way of the Jump Street franchise and together with his self-deprecating cameo in This Is the End.
Or chances are you’ll consider arguably his most well-known function: stripper Mike Lane from the Magic Mike film franchise, which is loosely impressed by his real-life expertise of working as a stripper when he was a teen.
But to Channing, his greatest and most necessary function is being a father to his 9-year-old daughter, Everly, whom he shares together with his ex-wife, Jenna Dewan.
The star beforehand admitted that he “completely panicked” when he first discovered that they had been having a woman, and “literally went to YouTube” in a bid to be taught as a lot as he may.
But it didn’t take lengthy for Channing to embrace each side of being a “girl dad,” with the actor sometimes sharing candy anecdotes about his adventures together with his daughter on his social media web page.
Back in 2021, Channing referred to as Everly “my world and my heart” when he posted a photograph of the 2 of them collectively on a seaside after darkish to Instagram.
“You were looking at the full moon in this pic and telling me the prophecy of the full moon mermaid and then we ran into the water and looked for her and played with glow sticks in the night water calling out to the mermaids,” he added within the caption. “You said you touched a bald headed mermaid and saw a tail.”
And these magical tales seemingly function inspiration for Channing, who wrote a youngsters’s e book referred to as The One and Only Sparkella — which he devoted to Everly — when he took a while away from the highlight.
During the e book’s promotional run, Channing was typically discovered carrying tutus, fairy wings, and tiaras as he performed dress-up with Everly, and he as soon as mentioned of Sparkella: “This is what I created for my little girl. From what is, I guess, the little girl in me.”
But elevating a daughter hasn’t at all times come naturally to the star. In 2021, Channing revealed that he as soon as tried to model Everly’s hair with a vacuum cleaner earlier than he discovered the right way to braid hair, and even now he nonetheless has a tough time getting “three close-to-the-head equal strands.”
“I learned how to braid hair,” he mentioned throughout an look on The Kelly Clarkson Show. “The hardest thing, though, is my daughter has really straight, fine hair. I have to do this every night, or she wakes up with a rat’s nest. It’s like a giant knot back there.”
He recalled watching a video of “a dad vacuuming up his daughter’s hair with a hair tie on the vacuum,” which he initially thought was “genius.”
“It doesn’t work like the guy did it,” Channing admitted. “I tried it, and it didn’t work as well.”
And now, in an interview with Vanity Fair, Channing has mirrored on how having a daughter has turned him into extra of a feminist because it has made him understand “how scary the world is for women.”
He additionally confessed that his acutely aware option to take 5 years off work to concentrate on Everly was one of the best choice that he’d made, and that their “alone time” helped him and his daughter “become best friends.”
“It just started with my daughter,” Channing mentioned of his break from appearing. “I just dropped everything and just focused on her. And it was truly the best possible thing that I ever could have done. Because in the alone time that I have with just me and her, we’ve become best friends.”
The actor was raised round sturdy girls, he mentioned, and has at all times been near his mother and sister. But, talking within the new interview, Channing “pinpoints his recent feminist awakening to the birth of his daughter.”
“Only in having a daughter did it start to really scare me how scary the world is for women,” Channing defined. “You can conceive it when you love someone that is a girl, but it doesn’t land in the same way as having a tiny female human in the world that is so vulnerable and looking at the world through rose-colored glasses.”
The advantage of time additionally made Channing understand that it was problematic that the primary two motion pictures within the Magic Mike franchise should not have any “strong female characters” — one thing that he has rectified within the upcoming third installment, Magic Mike’s Last Dance.
“Really, the first two movies are feathered-fish sort of movies, in my opinion,” he mentioned. “They’re movies about men made for women, or people that like men, but none of them had really strong female characters. So it felt like we sort of hoodwinked people on some level. Like we cheated the code.”
Addressing the addition of Salma Hayek Pinault as lead character Maxandra Mendoza within the new film, Channing added: “I think we wanted that specifically because I feel some sort of more responsibility that the other movies weren’t about women, they were about men.”
Elsewhere within the interview, Channing opened up about his “terrifying” divorce from Jenna and the way their 2018 break up inspired him to work on himself.