Channing Tatum dons D&G shirts as February 2010’s cover boy for Details Magazine, on stands January 19. Here’s what the 29-year-old actor shared:
On staying warm in the Scottish Highlands while shooting The Eagle of the Ninth as a soldier: “The only way to keep warm was by pouring a mix of boiling water and river water down your suit. We were finally done shooting for the day, and one of the crew guys asks if I want to warm up before I go. I’m like, Nah, I’m good. And then I thought, Why not? Thing is, he’d forgotten to dilute the kettle water. So he poured scalding water down my suit. And I was trying to pull the suit away from my body to somehow get away from the boiling water, and the more I pulled the suit away, the lower the water went. It just went straight down and pretty much burned the skin off the head of my d—.”
On his burnt penis:: “It was the most painful thing I have ever experienced in my life…I’ve been to the hospital, gotten stitches, had broken fingers and toes. But this was a suffocating kind of pain…Now my penis is fantastic! One hundred percent recovered. Put me back in the game, Coach.”
On depression: “The longer I took Dexedrine, the worse I felt. It sucked all the personality from me. I’d get depressed. I would think suicidal – I was never personally suicidal, but I could see how some kids were, how they’d be, like, I can’t take this anymore.”
More Chan interview at Details.com! His upcoming drama Dear John, co-starring Amanda Seyfried, is in theaters on February 5.