Why Channing Tatum regrets turning down Beauty and the Beast role

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12 Sep 2025 • 6:35 AM MYT
The Independent
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  • 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.

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