‘Fly Me to the Moon’ Star Channing Tatum Recalls Filming at Kennedy Space Center, First Day on Set With Scarlett Johansson: I ‘Immediately Started Making Fun of Her Wig’

variety.com:

Michaela Zee Channing Tatum can’t recall the first scene he and Scarlett Johansson filmed together for “Fly Me to the Moon.” He does, however, remember where they first met: at a table read for the romantic comedy.

Although Tatum and Johansson were both involved in the films “Don Jon” and “Hail, Caeser!,” the two actors “never crossed paths,” as Tatum puts it, until “Fly Me to the Moon.” “I remember us going down right after the table read to go into hair and makeup and start to try to figure out our look for the movie — it’s period and everything — and she was trying to figure out her wig for the movie,” Tatum told Variety at the “Fly Me to the Moon” premiere in New York City on Monday night. “I just immediately started making fun of her wig.

I was like, you’re gonna wear that? Is that like a thing that they used to do back then? Wear raccoons on their head? And she’s like, ‘Shut up!’ She’s like, ‘Not now!'” “I think it really set the tone for us in general, like, just us as even friends, much less the characters, you know?” Tatum said, adding that Johansson is “the force in the movie and she’s a force in this life as well.” Johansson described Tatum’s qualities that made him the ideal leading man for “Fly Me to the Moon.” “He’s obviously that very handsome leading man, but he has a humility about him and about his performances that is so unique,” Johansson told Variety.