Channing Tatum Says the Biggest Mistake of His Career Was Turning Down Guillermo del Toro's BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

Just like every actor in Hollywood, Channing Tatum has a project that he wishes he wouldn’t have turned down, but as it turned out, that project never actually ever made it to production.

Tatum has played a dancer, an undercover cop, an Olympic athlete, a video game character, a Cajun superhero, and more, but he wishes he could have played the classic character Beast in a non-Disney version of Beauty and the Beast, from the mind of the unparalleled visionary, Guillermo del Toro.

In a recent interview with Vanity Fair, Tatum explained:

“One of the biggest mistakes of my career: Guillermo del Toro wanted to do Beauty and the Beast, his version of the Beast. And I’d just had a baby, I was on a movie that was absolutely killing me, and the script wasn't totally there yet.

“I was just in a place in my head that I was like, ‘I don't think I can do this right now.’ It was the biggest mistake, because I'm the biggest Guillermo fan ever. And I think Guillermo doing Beauty and the Beast would've been the sickest movie ever.”

The busy filmmaker ended up putting this project on the backburner, so it’s unknown whether we will ever see it happen. But maybe since Tatum made this statement, they could reconvene to make it happen. We will just have to wait and see.