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Channing Tatum Says He Turned Down a Role in ‘Beauty and the Beast’ and Now Views It as His ‘Biggest Mistake’ | News Channel 3-12
Channing Tatum regrets declining the Beast role due to family and script issues, acknowledging Guillermo del Toro's project was never developed and Ryan Gosling later played the character.
- Channing Tatum revealed in a September 2025 Vanity Fair interview that he turned down the role of the Beast in Guillermo del Toro's unmade Beauty and the Beast.
- Tatum declined because he had just had a baby and was engaged in a project with an unfinished script, making the timing unsuitable for him.
- Del Toro exited the remake project in 2014, and there have been no further updates on its progress since then.
- Tatum described it as one of the greatest regrets of his career, emphasizing that he is a huge fan of Guillermo and expressed hope that they might collaborate in the future.
- Tatum hopes to work with del Toro one day, and their potential collaboration could still happen despite the project's indefinite status.
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Channing Tatum Says Rejecting Guillermo del Toro’s Unmade ‘Beauty and the Beast’ Remake Is ‘One of the Biggest Mistakes of My Career’
Channing Tatum says turning down Guillermo del Toro's 'Beauty and the Beast' remake was one of the 'biggest mistakes' of his career.
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Channing Tatum Says the Biggest Mistake of His Career Was Turning Down Guillermo del Toro's BEAUTY AND THE BEAST — GeekTyrant
Just like every actor in Hollywood, Channing Tatum has a project that he wishes he wouldn’t have turned down, but as it turned out, that project never actually ever made it to production. Tatum has played a dancer, an undercover cop, an Olympic athlete, a video game character, a Cajun superhero, and more, but he wishes he could have played the classic character Beast in a non-Disney version of Beauty and the Beast, from the mind of the unparalle…
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