There are plenty of people who drink too much, but they don’t look like Channing Tatum.
“I probably drink too much, you know,” the “22 Jump Street” star says in GQ’s June issue. “My wife, that’s what she bought into … I’m probably a pretty high-functioning, I guess, you know, I would say, alcoholic, I guess. There’s probably a tendency to escape. I equate it to creativity, and I definitely equate it to having a good time.”
Tatum’s love of the bottle should prepare him for his next role as the Marvel superhero Gambit.
The actor called the X-Man “the only superhero I really followed … He was the most real to me: smoking, drinking, women-loving, thief. He just looked cool to me. I’ve always loved him. And obviously he’s Cajun.”
Booze isn’t the 34-year-old’s only vice, though — he also loves fatty food.
“I really do love it. It’s terrible and it’s bad, but I really do think it’s because I have an inner fat kid in me. I can completely lose myself into just absolutely satisfying things — a really amazing cheeseburger, a pizza, good fries, a beer. I enjoy being comfortable and eating whatever the hell I like,” he says.
While it may be hard to believe because of his chiseled physique, Tatum showed off his food-loving credentials by getting into the nitty-gritty details of what he loves about one of his favorite foods, cake.
“I just love cake,” he said. “Confetti cake, to be specific. It has little colored candies inside the cake, and then you get the confetti icing, which is really hard to find sometimes. It’s really hard to explain to people, because it’s not icing with sprinkles on top. It’s icing that actually has candies inside of it. It’s Funfetti icing. It’s a beautiful mix. It is an angel sent from heaven.”
“22 Jump Street” hits theaters on June 13.