Channing Tatum on ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ News: ‘All I Was Guaranteed Was a Chair’ (Exclusive)

Channing Tatum spoke to “Extra’s” Roqui Theus as he was recognized with the Distinguished Decade of Achievement in Film honor at the CinemaCon 2025 Big Screen Achievement Awards. 

Channing said the honor hadn’t really sunk in yet, sharing, “They, like, sent me this thing that they're gonna play, and I was pretty uncomfortable watching it. I'm not one of the actors that really is comfortable watching themselves as much as I like doing the movies, I guess. I don't think I realized how long I've been doing this. It's a really strange thing when you’re like, ‘Oh, wow, I have been doing this for two decades, actually.' I don't know, I'm just lucky, man. I'm super, super lucky. I didn’t win the lottery as far as winning money, I won a lifelong devotion of myself. So, it's cool. I'm grateful.”

Tatum opened up about his evolution as an actor over the years.

“I was getting jobs before I knew what even acting was or how to do it. I was doing all, like, kinda on-the-job training in a way, just being like, 'Okay, just say the line naturally,' instead of actually understanding what acting is and what this, like, beautiful gift is. I was watching movies and I've learned so much from movies, more than I've learned from school or anything else or books or anything. Movies are probably my longest relationship in my life. I don't know, I just love them so much. They're magical."

He also talked about his upcoming film “Roofman," sharing, "'Roofman' is, I think, definitely a mark of a point in my life and my creative life that something's different, something's changed. It's one of the most honest movies I've ever told, even though it has nothing to do with me, like, it's a true story of someone else. I give my heart to every movie, but this one has a special kind of extra place for me. It really is, it lives in a strange place. It's not some action movie, it's not a romance, it's not a comedy. It has all of it inside the movie. I don't know, I think that's who we all are. We're all these just, like, balls of all these things we see in movies.”

We also had to ask about him being part of that big Marvel “Avengers: Doomsday” cast announcement! 

Channing, who plays Gambit in the MCU, said, "Personally, all I was guaranteed was a chair. They said that I have a chair, and I can at least watch the movie from the chair. You know, and it was just my name, it wasn't exactly Gambit. So, I work in the world of just like, of binary yes or no's, and I've only been guaranteed so far a chair to watch the movie in, so that's where I'm at."