Channing Tatum Reflects on Playing ‘Roofman’ and Connecting With the Real Convict #shorts

Interview with Channing Tatum

Transcript

00:00I know that he's done wrong things,

00:02he knows he's done wrong things,

00:03but I just pull for him.

00:05Yeah, it's very stressful for me.

00:07Like, I think I, I think I, I don't know.

00:09I think I put myself under a lot of stress

00:12to even do a movie,

00:13because I kind of want to scare myself

00:15into doing the really, like, best job as I can, I guess.

00:19And, you know, talking to Jeff,

00:21you start to create a connection with somebody,

00:23and you want to be able to do them justice on some level.

00:27But I definitely prepared Jeff.

00:28I was like, look, I'm not, this isn't gonna be you.

00:30It's going to be some strange sort of amalgamation

00:34of, like, you, me, and Derek.

00:36And that's just what the movie's gonna be.

00:39But he's smart, he knows, he loves movies.

00:40He's such a beautiful guy.

00:43I mean, for me, because I think there's more stress

00:46when it's a person that everybody knows, you know?

00:49But I think, for me, finding through Derek out about Lee,

00:53and she came to set and stuff,

00:55the real thing I wanted to show

00:57was her beautiful compassion to the situation with Jeff,

01:00and how she doesn't hold any resentment.

01:02And she truly leads her life, like, with a lot of grace.

01:06And so I wanted that aspect of her.