00:00Did you go through an Axe phase?
00:01I never went through an Axe phase.
00:02Axe was like way later.
00:04The commercials for Axe seemed like a lot.
00:06They were just like,
00:07Oh!
00:08Like.
00:08What's up, this is Channing Tatum
00:13and these are my GQ essentials.
00:21I would say one of the most essential elements is,
00:27Cutie, off.
00:28Good girl.
00:29A multi-purpose protection dog
00:31that you can have a lot of fun with, with friends.
00:34She'll bite them, cuddle them.
00:36Overall, find them anywhere in the darkness
00:38and protect you in their house.
00:40And she looks so cute, doesn't she?
00:41That's why her name is Cutie.
00:42We used to have a collar on her that says,
00:45don't mistake my kindness for weakness.
00:47Always have one of these with you.
00:50Packed cards.
00:52Yes.
00:53He is very, very gambit,
00:54but I've always, since I was a kid,
00:56kind of been fascinated with cards.
00:58I've never really studied magic or anything,
01:00but it just feels good to have cards in your hand
01:03and throwing them at your friends.
01:04Gotta always watch out.
01:07I don't know what came first exactly.
01:09Did I like cards before Gambit or not?
01:11I think Gambit probably had like a lot to do with it.
01:14He made them really, really cool.
01:15No one in this entire industry has like,
01:19looked out for me in the way that Ryan has.
01:23No one was asking for it.
01:24And it's just, he's a champion for it
01:26and I'll owe him for pretty much the rest of my life.
01:29Be in my buddy's movie and dress up
01:31like my favorite superhero.
01:32Like, I'll be happy with that.
01:36It's kind of like my comfort zone place.
01:39Like, cause you, you kind of can't take a bad picture
01:41with a Polaroid.
01:43It's so nostalgic for me.
01:44I could truly like talk about this thing forever.
01:47You could never have picked up a camera before in your life
01:50and take a picture of a Polaroid
01:51and it's somehow probably gonna look cool.
01:53The viewfinder is like not perfect.
01:55So it's kind of childlike.
01:57You can't perfectly measure it.
01:59Hopefully, hopefully they'll show you what that picture
02:02actually looks like.
02:03Do you believe in shaking them out?
02:05I only believe in shaking it,
02:06like a Polaroid picture because of Andre 3000.
02:09Polaroids play a bit of a sinister part in Blink Twice.
02:13It can take such a innocuous thing.
02:15Everybody knows the sound.
02:16Everybody knows like what the pictures look like.
02:18And you're like, oh, I love those things
02:20and kind of turn it and make it feel this
02:22like a ominous presence.
02:25And it's just fun.
02:28You can just keep doing it all day.
02:31This is very important.
02:33If you're gonna be cuddling a sometimes smelly dog.
02:37And it was Versace.
02:39When I was a model,
02:40I always wanted to walk in the Versace show.
02:44I was 20 years old, went to Milan for my first time
02:46being like, hi, please just hire me.
02:48I never got it.
02:49I never got the Versace show.
02:51Cut to, man, 20 more years later.
02:55I'm actually getting to like be the face of their fragrance.
02:59And it's really, I don't know,
03:00full circle strange like moment for me.
03:03You can put a lot of care into like how you look,
03:05what your outfit is.
03:06It's a bit of like the cherry on top.
03:08It's like the intention of what,
03:09how do you want people to like feel you in the room?
03:12Just wake up and go.
03:14The first fragrance I wore,
03:16I think that would have to be Curve.
03:19Bought it at Rite Aid
03:20or actually it was in Florida.
03:22It was like Eckerd's.
03:23Kid Macho that I played football with.
03:25He was like the pairing of Ice Breakers,
03:27gum and Curve.
03:29You gotta have Curve and Ice Breakers
03:30and it's a perfect like mix.
03:32Did you go through an Axe phase?
03:34I never went through an Axe phase.
03:35Axe was like way later.
03:36The commercials for Axe seemed like a lot.
03:38They were just like, oh!
03:41Like I did one spray of this and I, moderation kids.
03:47This next one is actually very nostalgic
03:49for so many reasons.
03:50This is the original Pussy Island lighter
03:53that now I wish I could kind of do this
03:56and it said blink twice,
03:57but it has a smiley face.
03:59You know, in the movie,
04:00we have a lighter that is a story point
04:02that you need to pay attention to
04:04and blink twice.
04:05And this is a big, big key to all of that.
04:08It was called Pussy Island, guys.
04:09And it was tested
04:11and people don't like hearing the word, apparently.
04:14I fell in love in creating this movie.
04:17I don't actually know my relationship
04:19with my partner outside of this film,
04:21so it's gonna be very interesting when the movie's over.
04:23It's just a really special, special thing
04:25to get to create with your partner.
04:28If you are thinking that you're in love,
04:30if you think that you wanna get married
04:33or have a baby with somebody,
04:35go find the hardest possible creative project with them.
04:37I don't care if it's like building a deck,
04:40painting a room,
04:41just go do something creative together
04:44and not just if you survive it,
04:45if you actually enjoy it.
04:47And needed that person during that journey,
04:51I would say that you're in a good place.
04:54If you don't, maybe you should, yeah, bail, run.
04:58I'm kidding, don't do that.
05:00["Pussy Island"]
05:04I think that you need comfort things
05:05and your essentials
05:06and I don't like going anywhere
05:08without a picture of my little girl.
05:11She's very, very cute and she's so weird
05:13and I love her more than I can say.
05:15So can't go anywhere without her.
05:16Even in her little stare there,
05:20she's just plotting the whole time.
05:22You can tell that she's physically
05:24just plotting my demise
05:26or some sort of a joke or trick.
05:28She's a trickster.
05:29There's a friend of ours, Uncle Aaron,
05:31that is very clean and then he's a bit OCD
05:36and she stole all of the paper,
05:38like the toilet paper and paper towels
05:40in the entire house.
05:41And she put a non-rippable piece of toilet paper
05:45in his bathroom.
05:47He goes to the bathroom
05:48and then physically can't find toilet paper
05:50for about 20 minutes.
05:53So she's just constantly messing with people
05:55on a minute-to-minute basis
05:56and you can't stop it.
05:58It's just an unstoppable force.
06:00You don't need these tools exactly,
06:02but I kinda just like to mess around.
06:05One of my favorite things on an airplane
06:07is just grabbing a napkin
06:09and like a ballpoint pen
06:11and just, I don't know, sketch.
06:13Like, do whatever that you're actually feeling.
06:17Out.
06:18See what happens.
06:20So you kinda just kinda go away, in my opinion.
06:23If you want it to be something cool,
06:24it's probably not gonna be something cool.
06:26When I personally work hard on something,
06:28I'm like, oh, it sucks, I hate it.
06:30But right now, you're just kinda like,
06:31all right, I'm just gonna just scribble and be stupid.
06:34Art for me is a bit of a therapy in a way,
06:37like specifically something like this
06:39that you don't need it to be good.
06:41You don't need to come back to it.
06:42It's not asking to be good.
06:44It's not wanting to be good.
06:45Nine times out of 10, I'll do something
06:47and be like, oh, wow,
06:48there's this little cool part about it.
06:50You can actually be like, all right, I'm a clown now.
06:53We're going to be a clown now.
06:55No one cares.
06:56Ha ha ha.
06:59Pants generally are essentials in life.
07:02You will get arrested if you don't wear them.
07:04My go-tos are Dickies and Carhartts.
07:06You can wear them in a disaster situation.
07:08You can wear them while you're painting
07:10with your daughter in the backyard.
07:11They're just sort of infallible, in my opinion.
07:14I've grown up with them in so many different ways.
07:16I have a pair of Dickies that I've had
07:18since I was probably 18 years old.
07:22Like, I was framing houses in these things.
07:24And now they're my comfort clothes.
07:26They don't fit very well anymore.
07:28My butt's gotten bigger.
07:29I'll get back down to that weight.
07:32There's really not a better marriage
07:34for Carhartts or Dickies than just white t-shirts.
07:38For me, specifically Hanes is my go-to.
07:41Just a plain white tee.
07:42White tank tops, ribbed, not the weird sort of fitted ones.
07:48I was always gravitated to just like a very simple,
07:51old, tattered, white shirt.
07:53It's just a classic thing.
07:54I hate doing laundry.
07:56Like, I hate it more than I can possibly say.
07:58I had one year that I called
08:00the year of the fresh white tee.
08:01And I don't think I did laundry all year that year.
08:04I just wore white t-shirts that I just bought.
08:08Like, I'd be like,
08:09I can get like two wears out of this week.
08:10This is gonna be good.
08:11The year of the fresh white tee,
08:1299 or 2000.
08:14It's a beautiful year.
08:17I like Mezcal.
08:18It is so nice when it touches your lips.
08:20Look, Gloss Explorer is a brand that I just F with, man.
08:23It's just unbelievably clean and pure.
08:26There's not a lot of brands that can truly say
08:29that it was made in the most clean and intentional way.
08:33F you.
08:35Panic.
08:36Straight panic.
08:37I'm not gonna drink it,
08:38but in my mind, I'm drinking it.
08:42All right, guys, that's it.
08:43Thank you for watching the essentials.
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