CHANNING TATUM STEPS UP

(VIDEO) New leading man Channing Tatum never danced before playing a street dancer in the film Step Up.

Making his first feature film as a leading man, Channing Tatum stars in Step Up as a Baltimore street dancer from the wrong side of the tracks who hooks up with a trained ballerina from the Maryland School of Performing Arts while he is fulfilling his community service there. Channing talks abou his dancing experience before he stepped into the role.

Despite Channing’s lack of dancing skills, he was able to tap into his character’s lack of enthusiasm for attending school. However, if there was a Fame school in his hometown of Cullman, Alabama he would’ve enrolled.

“Other than in a club or at birthday parties, no, absolutely not. I worked with little kids and stuff but I was more of a wrangler than a teacher. I can’t teach any dancing at all. They had their work cut out but Jamal was my personal choreographer for the hip hop street stuff and it’s weird, we even move alike. We move alike, we have the same personality. My style, the little bit of dancing that I did was a lot like his for some weird reason. And it was by accident. He was always going to be the choreographer before they found me. And it just worked out. It was perfect.”

Step Up opens Friday in theaters nationwide.rn

“I was not a good school kid whatsoever. If I knew that they had a school that you could go and dance and play music and act and do art and sculpt and paint I would’ve been there in four seconds. It wouldn’t even be a question. I barely got to school as it was so that would’ve been a blessing.”