Impressive dancer, authentic redneck and sensitive confidant – as the threequel Magic Mike’s Last Dance is released this week, we strip down Tatum’s back catalogue
In 2006, Channing Tatum broke out as a body-popping bad boy in the street dance movie Step Up, an ideal showcase for the limber skills he had honed while working as a stripper. But the same year this goofy boarding-school comedy – a loose adaptation of Twelfth Night, with Amanda Bynes disguised as a dude – helped to cement his future brand. As jacked soccer jock Duke, you might assume Tatum would be a sexist lug. Instead, he stands out as a sensitive confidant who can also land a serious scissor-kick.
