No tissues needed! Channing Tatum offered reassurance that his new film will not follow in Marley and Me’s tragic footsteps.“I think Marley and Me scared everyone,” the Magic Mike actor, 41, revealed during a Tuesday, February 8, appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!
to promote Dog. “Every single person that I’ve told that I made a dog movie, they’re like, ‘I’m not going to see it unless you tell me if the dog lives.’”When Tatum asked his loved ones why they would want a new movie’s ending spoiled, he was quick to learn they were less concerned with major reveals if it meant the precious dog character had a happily ever after.“It’s a good ending, just so everyone knows,” the Alabama native teased to Jimmy Kimmel. “Yeah, yeah, don’t not see the movie just because you’re afraid of the dog [dying].”Tatum stars as Army Ranger Briggs in Dog, which is set for release later this month.
In the movie, Briggs takes a cross-country road trip with the canine companion to attend his late friend’s military funeral service.While the Jupiter Ascending actor’s character isn’t the biggest fan of the military-trained pup in the trailer, Tatum is a bigger dog lover in real life.
In fact, his Pitbull-Catahoula mix Lulu — who died in 2018 — inspired his fellow actor in Dog.“[My aunt and uncle] just had a litter of these two legendary dogs called Dip and Daisy,” the actor explained during a Variety interview earlier this month. “Dip was this wide-eyed coyote-looking thing that impregnated every dog for, like, 100 miles.
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