While weve all been watching, the rules of movie stardom have changed.
(According to their agents, both would be ideal.)
Logan has been dealt a series of bad hands.
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His football career and marriage have failed, and hes wound up with a desperate need for cash.
Its the kind of performance that transcends era, and Tatum, in many ways, is a throwback.
That would be a precarious place to be if he hadnt been so smart in his hustle.
All this is not to say that Tatum, 37, hasnt tried to break into the franchise game.
But his more overt attempts at them were busts.
The WachowskisJupiter Ascendingis remembered mainly for GIFs of Eddie Redmayne screaming, andG.I.
Joe: Retaliationkilled off his character, Duke, in the first act.
That epiphany came courtesy of fatherhood.
Four years ago, his wife, Jenna Dewan-Tatum, gave birth to their daughter, Everly.
She became, in essence, a baby barometer for his career.
It better not just be for money.
The money were talking about those franchise checks could be coming anyway.
If the odds are with him who knows?
a spin-off isnt out of the realm of the possible.
In the meantime, Soderbergh alone has kept him plenty busy.
Tatum and theOceans Elevenfilmmaker met on the set of the 2011 Gina Carano action vehicle,Haywire.
You spend your life putting a band together.
Chan was immediately someone where I thought, Well, he needs to be in the band.'
Six years and four more Soderbergh projects later, the band is still jamming.
And Tatum is still marching to his own beat.
