Magic Mike XXL's bi-sexual stripper, Channing Tatum and Witches of East End wife Jenna Dewan's marriage has been plagued with rumors of divorce these past few months, but the Hollywood hot couple looked nowhere near splitting up in their ALS Ice Bucket Challenge YouTube video. The new trailer for Channing's upcoming Foxcathcher flick has just been released, and word has it you'll never look at Jonah Hill's 22 Jump Street bestie the same way ever again. According to the latest gossip news updates, the former model turned down the super-dark role when originally approached by Moneyball director, Bennett Miller. Word has it that Miller even talked to Heath Ledger about taking the role before the passion project was put on hold yet again, but thankfully years later the stars eventually aligned allowing for a much older and wiser Tatum to take the soon-to-be Oscar nominated role alongside heavyweights Mark Ruffalo and Steve Carell.
If movie star married couple, Chaning Tatum and Jenna Dewan, are near divorce you certainly couldn't tell by their ALS Ice Bucket Challenge acceptance video.
In the YouTube offering, originally posted via Twitter along with a caption suggesting they donated to the cause as well, Channing and Jenna nominate afairly unusual collection of A-listers to tackle the challenge next:
"Jenna: We accept tha Ice Bucket Challenge and we nominate Emmanuelle Chriqui, Kate Mara. Leah Renee and Janet Jackson.
"Channing: Uh...Bucket Challenge...um, I...uh, nominate Reid Carolin, Jonah Hill, Meryl Streep and...and Daniel Day Lewis."
Word has it that Channing gives a far more riveting performance in his new movie with Steve Carell and Mark Ruffalo, Foxcatcher.
According to critics, Tatum's dark and brooding take on 1988 Olympic hopeful, Mark Schultz, is going to be a career game changer, in much the same way Bennet Miller's Capote was for the recently deceased Phillip Seymour Hoffman.
The character seemed so dark and brooding to Channing when Miller first approached him about taking the role, after seeing a much younger Tatum in 2006's, A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, that the fresh-faced actor turned down the movie out right.
In the interim, it's reported that Bennet looked to various different actors--like Ryan Gosling and Heath Ledger--to join his dark passion play, but eventually all roads led him back to Channing.
During a recent interview about the project with New York Magazine, Channing, now married and a father, explained that he is still just as happy he originally balked as he is that he returned (via Hollywood Reporter):
"[Back then] I didn't know what to think.
"I didn't know what I was doing, I didn't know how to read scripts, I didn't know anything about acting, and the way Bennett talked about this wildly dark character weirded me out a little bit, to be honest with you.
"I was super young, and I just didn't get it. In a way, I think, thank God it didn't come to fruition then, because I don't know what it would have turned out to be."
Let's just hope Channing doesn't get too big a head to make Magic Mike 3.
