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Channing Tatum buys a bit of 'paradise' in Laurel Canyon
The actor pays nearly $2.6 million for a home with a Balinese tree house feel.
Hottie up-and-coming movie actor Channing Tatum of "Step Up" and "Stop-Loss" fame just bought a Laurel Canyon property described on the Multiple Listing Service as a "Balinese treehouse in paradise." He paid $2,595,000 for the three-bedroom, three-bathroom home that was listed at $3.4 million, according to public records. The main house has an open floor plan and a bonus floor below that would work nicely as a gym or screening room. A curving teak staircase leads to the second-floor master suite, which has floor-to-ceiling windows and wrap-around terraces overlooking the mountains and canyons. The 12-foot pitched wood and beam ceilings in the master bedroom add to the Balinese tree house feel.
A separate guesthouse could house an assistant or serve as an office.
Tatum, a former model-turned-hip-hop-dancer-turned-actor, grew a fan base from his stint on "So You Think You Can Dance."
The 27-year-old green-eyed heartthrob has been romantically linked to Jenna Dewan, whom he met on the set of the 2006 movie "Step Up." She played Nora. In Hollywood years, this makes them an item as old as Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.
Elisabeth Halsted of Prudential California Realty was the listing agent. Moe Abourched of MSM Luxury Estates, Encino, represented the buyer.
Channing Tatum is one of Hollywood's fastest rising stars among the young Hollywood elite. After a big screen introduction in Coach Carter and a higher profile role in Havoc, Tatum broke out to a wider audience in Step Up in 2006 and its sequel in 2008. After landing a meatier role alongside Ryan Phillippe in director Kimberly Peirce's gripping look at the never ending cycle of soldiers being called back to war in Stop Loss, Tatum will soon be appearing in the upcoming big screen version of G.I. Joe.
With Stop Loss about to hit theaters on March 28, Channing Tatum sat down with the press at the film's press junket to talk about the bond between real soldiers, attending boot camp for the movie, his new appreciation for the troops, and the difficulty of taking on G.I. Joe during a time of war on the heels of Stop Loss.
Channing Tatum on the brotherhood of soldiers:
"Time and time again you hear soldiers and that’s the hardest thing, just leaving. Leaving behind the people that aren’t getting out with you, because they have to stay. One of my buddies hurt his shoulder and that’s how he got out and he felt so guilty about leaving even though he was happy about getting out and relieved. He just felt so guilty, and the guy that actually replaced him ended up dying while we were shooting the movie."
Tatum on going to boot camp and meeting real soldiers:
"We did a boot camp. I got to hang out with soldiers even before I was in Austin and then as we did the boot camp it was sort of our bonding time. That’s what really brought us together and we all just fell into our roles. It was really weird how it happened. Ryan [Phillippe] showed up game and ready to lead [and] I was there to help him and to take care of the rest of the guys. Everyone just assumed their role and it was such a testament to Kim [Peirce] in picking her casting and the way that she does things. She does things so thoroughly and I think it was really smart."
On how the other cast members held up during boot camp:
"Victor [Rasuk] was hilarious. Victor threw-up everyday that we were out there at some point. And the only time I actually saw him run for real was when a dog was chasing him, it was funny. He was always way in the back and I’m trying to push him and get him up there and he would stop so we would keep going. The next thing you know, they had these goats running around on this property we were on, when we were doing the boot camp, and this big huge white dog comes running at him barking and he passed us. He out-ran us, it was like out of a movie hilarious."
Tatum on the decision that Phillippe's character Brandon makes in the film:
"The army teaches you to make a decision. They teach you to make a decision, whether it’s right or wrong, just don’t stand there. You have to act and make a decision. You have to act and that was the decision he made to go into the alley and it turned out to be a sticky situation,. You could pick right or wrongs all day. But it doesn’t matter, it’s about how a man deals with making those decisions. Not even so much a soldier, a man, like he’s just a guy trying to take care of his men."
On his understanding of what the troops go through after filming the movie:
"It hasn’t made me feel that like, I experienced this, I know what these guys go through,' because it’s not even close. It’s not even in the ballpark at all. I mean the most I can relate to is watching someone, a friend of mine that’s a soldier experience it. Most of them I’ve talked to, they’re very unbiased, they’re not political. Ryan said it best, they check their politics at the door. They don’t go into it thinking, ‘what is Bush doing?? No, they just have a job to do and they go out and they do it and that’s it."
Channing Tatum on the stark contrast between this type of soldier and his upcoming role in the new G.I. Joe movie:
"I actually passed on the movie originally for that exact reason. I was like, 'I have no interest in playing a fake fantasy soldier in time of war.' It came back around and I read the script and the script was great. I realized that it had nothing to do with war, it had nothing to do with being a soldier, it is strictly X-Men. It’s X-Men, Mission Impossible, Star Wars, and I got kind of excited about it. Then I heard Joe [Joseph Gordon-Levitt] was attached and that was a big incentive for me, we’re really good friends. To go and do a big popcorn fun field-trip of a movie, this is the farthest thing from Stop Loss as you can possibly imagine. Other than things blowing up, that’s about the only thing they have in common."
"But it was a big concern of mine, because this was so sensitive and it was immediately after Stop loss. And it’ll still a little bit like - when you go and you put on a weapon - me and Joe have to keep reminding ourselves this is happy, this is fun, this is not something for real. Stay in your comic book mind because it’s very easy to go back where we were during Stop Loss. It’s so easy to access."
Miley Cyrus teams up with actor/dancer Channing Tatum in her latest installment of The Miley and Mandy Show.
Last week, Jon M. Chu, the director of Step Up 2 and actor/choreographer Adam Sevani challenged Miley and back-up dancer Mandy Jirouex to an online dance contest!
Milez with a Z and Manderz with a Z most definitely took on the challenge and enlisted the help of director Cole Walliser, choreographer Teresa Espinosa, actor/dancer couple Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan and a slew of breakdancers. (Channing was in the original movie, Step Up.) Miley even gets her grandmother (the one with the awesome hair!!) to help out with some fancy footwork.
Everyone rocked out to Madonna and Justin Timberlake’s “4 Minutes (To Save The World).”
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