Kirsten Dunst Describes ‘Roofman’ Co-Star Channing Tatum

In a current interview, Channing Tatum provided a praise to his Roofman co-star Kirsten Dunst.

“She’s not a diva, the place she might simply be, and have earned that. And he or she’s not,” Tatum advised Selection. “She desires to have a cigarette and a whiskey with you and speak shit.”

On the movie’s Los Angeles premiere on Monday night time, The Hollywood Reporter requested Dunst to return the favor and describe her co-star within the Derek Cianfrance-directed movie. Because it turned out, the 2 veteran stars didn’t know every in any respect earlier than Cianfrance referred to as “motion” on the Paramount Footage manufacturing. The primary scene they shared occurred to be one the place their characters meet whereas attending a singles mixer at Purple Lobster.

“We spent zero time collectively,” Dunst recalled of assembly up on set that day. “He’s a really real human being and somebody who can’t lie. He is rather like a very good human. What you see is what you get with Chan.”

Primarily based on “an unbelievable true story,” Roofman casts Tatum as Jeffrey Manchester, an Military veteran and father who’s struggling to make ends meet for his household. In doing so, he goes on against the law spree by robbing McDonald’s eating places by slicing holes within the location’s rooftops, a transfer that earned him the nickname. He’s apprehended by police and despatched to jail solely to flee after which he lives inside a Toys “R” Us location for six months. Throughout that point, he falls for a lady named Leigh, performed by Dunst, a divorced mom who’s drawn in by his plain charms.

The identical could possibly be mentioned for Cianfrance because it pertains to Tatum. The veteran filmmaker mentioned he’s lengthy thought of Tatum “certainly one of my favourite actors” due to his expertise and flexibility.

“I noticed him for the primary time in A Information to Recognizing Your Saints. I solely noticed that film as soon as, however I’ll always remember sitting within the movie show and seeing this individual stroll down the road with a vest on, no shirt on beneath, with this dancer’s physique. He moved like Gene Kelly, however his face seemed like Marlon Brando and he had this intense, weak, wounded masculinity to him,” the director defined. “Then he was in romantic films and was so swoon worthy. Then he was in motion films and it was heart-pounding. Then he was in comedies and was accountable for a few of the funniest moments within the final 20 years.”

When he wrote the script for Roofman, he did so with a plan to “present all sides of Channing Tatum” and supply him the possibility to deal with all these sorts of genres in a single movie. Miramax CEO Jonathan Glickman mentioned working with Tatum was one of many causes he felt “compelled” to make the movie.

“That is the sixth film I’ve made that Channing Tatum has been the star of, so I’ve seen all sides of him,” he advised THR. “I used to be fortunate to be concerned within the Leap Road films, a few the G.I. Joe films, The Vow, which was an incredible success we had collectively. He’s an unbelievable actor. He has a depth that surprises individuals and an authenticity that’s completely actual. There’s nothing he does on this film that surprises me by way of his skillset. Once I learn the script, I knew he might pull it off.”

Roofman drops into theaters nationwide on Oct. 10. Tatum and Dunst star alongside Ben Mendelsohn, LaKeith Stanfield, Juno Temple, Melonie Diaz, Uzo Aduba, Lily Collias, Jimmy O. Yang and Peter Dinklage. Cianfrance wrote the screenplay with Kirt Gunn. Jamie Patricof, Lynette Howell Taylor, Alex Orlovsky, Duncan Montgomery and Dylan Sellers produced the Paramount title made in affiliation with Miramax, FilmNation, Von Waaden Leisure, Excessive Frequence, Searching Lane, 51 Leisure and Limelight.