Channing Tatum flashes the flesh for V Man

Oh, GURL.

Those legs would look great on my shoulders.

Link right to VMan here

YAZZZ queen!

He looks nice but somebody show him how to pose, pls!

I was just thinking some of those poses look extremely gay

He looks as gay as RuPaul and Paul Lynde rolled together in the photos at R1 and R4.

Also looks like an aged Wentworth Miller with a gym membership.

He vacillates between wanting to be taking seriously to outright thirst, similar to Robert Pattinson

Here go the “educated” gays on here making comments about shit they clearly know nothing about. Yet they’re educated. But they don’t know what a photo shoot is like.

He should grow his hair out a little and use more moisturizer

Ok R9, what’s a photo shoot like? And what’s your opinion on these pics?

I think he looks great, but completely different than I’ve seen him anywhere else. These shots can’t be unseen and I won’t be able to consider Tatum the same way I did ten minutes ago.

Bro, now THAT'S how to combat all those gay rumours!

The shots are clearly him posing in a way he’s being directed to. This isn’t freelance work.

I'm serving you saucy buttocks!

He looks good. Has he lost weight?

Hard face and that shot with the smoke is possessed by Tallulah Bankhead.

R12 he’s never cared about them

Is he gay or trolling? Because the Muscle to Mary balance is tipping in favour of "Ah do declare!"

He does look marvelously lean and defined. Good for him.

But he should watch what weight loss can do to his face....

r9 I suppose if he wasn't fruity, they wouldn't be setting him up in such feminine poses. . . as is it looks amateurish and we could even argue that it's homophobic unless he really is this fey. We could find countless layouts of models in masculine poses and presentation but likewise notice when someone comes out as gay or bi, this performative caricature of homosexuality as endeared to the opposite sex is too frequently the result... where femme lesbians are made out to be bulldaggers and gay men as prancing, shirtlifting, limp wristed nancy boys on the inevitably path to transitioning. So, i would wonder about the direction where str8 men are made into homoerotic thirst traps but gay men are left to drag even without the drag.

Never "hawt" with those ears.

Getting balder, gaunter, more rugged looking and gayer are all natural parts of aging!

I must have missed the course on photoshoots at Harvard so I won't say anything.

R20 so when Billy Porter poses like this, or That One Direction nimrod, it’s ok? But when CT does it it’s homophobic unless he comes out as Queer-ish?

And even if he is being directed in these poses, he’s still clearly ok with being a part of it, otherwise he’d walk off right? I like this series of pics as I am able to see CT in them, but also NOT “see” CT in them.

Some of you are really overthinking a piece of ass

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"When you run out of ideas, take your clothes off"

R27 Or just, "if you want to make money in front of a camera in Hollywood, take your clothes off."

He wants in on a franchise I bet. One of the cinematic universe franchises.

I like that very much.

I don’t find him handsome but I really liked him in 21 jump street and Logan lucky. He’s a good actor.

Sad. So sad how many of you know nothing about photo shoots. Sigh.

But so so educated. Lmao

Did he…not have photo approval?

Agreed, R32! If they knew anything at all about photo shoots, they'd know that all men are transformed into prancing fancy Nancies when the flashbulbs go off. Alas, such ignorance around these parts.

I can't believe that Alabama boy let those fools pose him like they did in a few of those photos. They may as well have put an "I LIKE DICK" sign on his back.

Chan has a saucy secret!

Carol Channing Tatum is the obvious drag name.

If the Magic Mike movies stop making money, he'll probably appear on Drag Race season 46 or so.

Looks like Erich von Stroheim's great-grandson to me.

Margo Channing Tatum

She may have seen better days, but she’s still not to be had for the price of a cocktail, like a salted peanut.

He's intelligent and self-aware. A rare quality in a movie star.

He's cute, fit and funny. He can sit on my face any day.

You should read the article. I had no idea he and Jonah Hill were so close, and Jonah gives him fashion advice.

Tatum is hot. I don’t care how he is posed.

His face is sort of droopy, like gravity is pulling the skin downwards giving him a "whatever!" resting bitchface facial expression.

The real snarky joy of this piece isn't the strike a pose photos. The second half of the interview with Jonah Hill is all about how he has guided and influenced Channing's fashion sense (gasp, flutter fan).

JH: I have two more big points to hit that I’m interested in. One, your newfound fashion. Like the joy around your fashion sense as of recent. I’ll let you talk about this in any sense you want to talk about it.

CT: I just got over it. I stopped acting for a while, life changed, and I really wanted to pay attention and figure out who I was—that was like four years ago. Look, I went on a little bit of a journey trying to do Balenciaga and all this shit. And I was just like, ‘This ain’t me either. I don’t know what the kids are doing these days.’ And then some friends of mine, like you and Zo [Zoë Kravitz], were like, “Why don’t you just wear what you wear? Why don’t you just be you?” You gave me some very specific style tips. I’m really enjoying finding my own voice and my own way with some very beautiful guardrails. Jonah, you basically don’t let me look like a fool. So I appreciate you. I’m only mad that it’s taken you this long to give me these tips…you could have helped me a lot on Jump Street.

JH: I could have but you can’t make someone want to change. They have to want it on their own.

CT: I was hanging out with Jason Momoa the other day, and he’s wearing this beautiful pink and white cardigan. And I was like, “How do you pull that off, bro?” Like, I don’t look well in a pink cardigan. I look like an actual school teacher. I put it on and, literally, everyone said, “No, doesn’t work. Take it off.”

JH: I always appreciated your appreciation of whatever you found cool or interesting. I think that’s a beautiful way to live. But I think it was cool to watch you start to understand what worked well for you and develop in that way.

Cool, bro.

I don't understand how that ugly tumor and bad actor Jonah Hill has become fashionable - he looks like something that was dragged from the bottom of the ocean in a net

he needs the caftan NOW

Oh yes, he is so not a gay.

Funny he never did anything for me but he's been looking sexy lately.

And he's not gay. I can't with the old grannies here can just appreciate a good looking male. No need to write fan fiction.

Ugh, he only has his body. Once a stripper, always a stripper.

Taking style advice from Jonah Hill is like taking singing lessons from Melanie Griffith.

[quote] CT: I just got over it. I stopped acting for a while, life changed, and I really wanted to pay attention and figure out who I was—that was like four years ago. Look, I went on a little bit of a journey trying to do Balenciaga and all this shit. And I was just like, ‘This ain’t me either. I don’t know what the kids are doing these days.’ And then some friends of mine, like you and Zo [Zoë Kravitz], were like, “Why don’t you just wear what you wear? Why don’t you just be you?” You gave me some very specific style tips. I’m really enjoying finding my own voice and my own way with some very beautiful guardrails. Jonah, you basically don’t let me look like a fool. So I appreciate you. I’m only mad that it’s taken you this long to give me these tips…you could have helped me a lot on Jump Street.

Dang! I should've thought of that. Getting my good pal Johnny Depp interview me ... oh wait, let's try Ansel Elgort ... fuck. Maybe finally Timothée will return my calls?

Logan Lucky is a fun little movie

I want him pounding my tight hole until a choir of angles sings.

It's no coincidence Jonah Hill is just as fashion aware and untragically hip as his sister Beanie. I understand he's the Nicky Arnstein stand-by in Funny Girl.

He use to flash his 6 in of flesh for a Benjamin.

Channing Tatum knows where his bread is buttered. He has said, on the record, that he owes his career to removing his shirt. I find such self-aware candor utterly refreshing.

Plus, he's hot as hell and I've had a crush on him forever.

R54 I love it when the rights and the obtuses harmonize!

we know he's not gay, but those poses look very fey

r24 It's still amatuerish shots and most of the poses are just grotesquely feminine rather than homoerotic..

which they should be. I suggested it was homophobic because we can illustrate the differences of other performers and models in how they're posed when they're assumed to be straight vs when they're queer identified or even assumed..

and as the public trend is to strip all essence of masculinity from the subject, even to the extention of mere effeminacy, it does extend onto homophobia, as rarely males are permitted a cry of sexism.

So, i question who is the intended audience for this?

What is the intended message?

Is it a mere castration fantasy and who would it appeal to?

a political arrow as a retrograde symbol of detoxification of masculinity or cross gender reparative therapy?

At least if he transitions, he wouldn't have to change his name.

r60 go take your meds

[quote]He should grow his hair out a little and use more moisturizer

And use a bag on his head.

so, you would argue this public display of emasculation isn't part of the systemic homophobia in society and the preference of performative transexualism over homosexuality, r61 ?

one could go further to suggest that any claim of toxic masculinity is indeed rooted in homophobia that the display of both hyper masculinity and effeminancy is viewed as suspect or inherently homosexual rather than heteronormative but having no other disposition that instead we see a replacement of the feminine...

so, again, who is the intended audience?

is it a model for young gay boys or others questioning their sexuality and the lingering arousal to then be exchanged to gynephilic curiosities and their inevitable assault on women?

I remember this. He even vogues. He’s an ally at the very least.

In The Vow, they had to tape his butt cheeks shut or else he would have presented hole in a gratuitous walk from the bed to the bathroom while mooning over his lost love. According to the makeup person, he's not so clean.

That buzzed off white trash hair is doing him no favors. The easiest way for a man to turn himself into trash is to go skin head.

Meh!

He should start an Onlyfans.

R68 He seems to be going more for Joan Crawford (or Collins?) grande dame than pornstar.

He might be suitable for a male Sunset Boulevard in about 15 years.

Nice body but his face has always looked, still does, like a Mr. Potato Head.

There's something about his face. I always thought he had SDF (the opposite of BDF).

He's very sexy, even if he's not traditionally handsome

Where did the bisexual rumors about Channing come from?

R63 Closeted professors are a cliché dear.

Shexy shkinny anklesh

shilly me, i forgot the photo!

Looks like Lauren Hutton on a testosterone regimen.

I love him! Sexy and a great actor. Underrated.

[quote] Here go the “educated” gays on here making comments about shit they clearly know nothing about…

So, R9 you're claiming to be knowledgeable on the subject of "shit"?

Do you want to share your knowledge of "shit" with us?

[quote]Where did the bisexual rumors about Channing come from?

His face?

"I want him pounding my tight hole until a choir of angles sings."

For $150 I can get a Channing look a like to pound your hole while I play the triangle. By the time your rectum is turned into hamburger you won't care how annyoing a triangle is.

That's as close to Tatum and "a choir of angles" as you're going to get and it's a BARGAIN, honey!

I can't forget Neil Patrick Harris gloating that he once sat across him in a whirlpool. Like it was code for something.

He's just hot.

r20 isn't it homophobic to insist something is ONLY gay?

He has "I let guys blow me while I pretend to be indifferent until I cum" face

I don't like smoking, and It's absolutely gay, but I love the photo at R1. The way he's holding his face in that photo puts it over the top. I'd like to see Tatum play an over-the-top gay villain, actually. I think he'd be great in something like that...if he could channel this shot into a character.

He looks suited to a Sunset Blvd. x Gods and Monsters hybrid. He's projecting the fantastically delusional spirits of Ian McKellen and Gloria Swanson.

I believe he's trying to go for the dapper, but bored out of his mind Dandy attitude. But it just comes off as campy and, yes, gay.

Meme-worthy

Also, ancient joke: how do you know a gay’s been smoking?

Ashes on his shoulder

R73 Just pure fantasy

R90 Nuh uh, my cousin's next door neighbor said that his friend used to work with him and he was for sure bi.

R83...Gene Kelly would be proud, I think.

Methinks Channing has an early Yul Brynner fetish. The poses, the far-off stare, even that hideous blue Japanese robe he's wearing at R89.

Potato Head PR spotted

[quote] But he should watch what weight loss can do to his face....

It's not weight loss it's aging. Skin loses elasticity and firmness with age -- the process is accelerated for alcoholics. Kudos to him for not pumping himself full of fillers...yet.

I don't know why he's doing a press assault for a movie about a dog. The audience for that is already built-in and it won't expand based on a VMan photoshoot. I still think he has a Travolta-esque resurgence in his future. He just needs the right role, one where he can disappear and stop being the same dimwit. In the two decades he's been in front of a camera I know he's learned something about his craft by now.

R88:

[quote] I believe he's trying to go for the dapper, but bored out of his mind Dandy attitude.

I agree with your take. And I think the reason why it didn’t quite come off is because the clothes are too mundane, too run-of-the-mill.

For the Bore Posh Fairy of Beverly Hills look to come off, the clothes need to be much more FABulous, sexier and edgier! perhaps something like what Gus Kenworthy recently wore for the Gay Times spread? That transparent/translucent look that’s so on trend this season?

[quote]He looks as gay as RuPaul and Paul Lynde rolled together in the photos

So what?

Back in his modeling days

From last year

Throwback: Eros & Thanatos

^ Jerking over a dead body.

Caftan alert @ r101!

Luved him in this. He is good in light comedy and for a big guy he's very graceful.

[quote] I’d like to see Tatum play an over-the-top gay villain, actually.

Look to the movie a couple posts above your own for that wish to be granted, R86.

R97, I don’t think emulating Gus Kenworthy's appearance in Gay Times dressed in liquid latex is the answer to Channing seeming LESS gay in a photo shoot.

Those thighs…

[quote] I don’t think emulating Gus Kenworthy's appearance in Gay Times dressed in liquid latex is the answer to Channing seeming LESS gay in a photo shoot.

I can't fathom why gay men are so hung up on him doing all he can to "seem less gay in a photo shoot."

He certainly does look flamboyant and gay, gay, gay in those photos.

Why is the consensus among gay people that looking gay is bad and needs to be corrected? That's pretty sad.

^ I can actually see some people find it frustrating due to the gay baiting aspect

It’s not exactly Andrew Garfield, but it’s in the vicinity. I guess Pattinson is the closest example of a peer who gay baits with flamboyant photo shoots.

Omg

When the angle is right

If a man with a hot ass who I will never have sex with wants to show me his hot ass I am not going to complain about being gay-baited, I am simply going to admire the hot ass - it is not complicated

He looks great. His body is smokin hot.

He has legs like a black man. Short, thick thighs and long calves. Wasn’t there a rumor that his grandfather was octoroon or something like that? His faci features are ethnically ambiguous too.

It's less common for men than women, but paraphrase Catherine Deneuve he's going to have to choose between his abs and his face.

Deneuve definitely chose her face.

I agree with catherine

I’ll have his ass AND face, please. I think he’s adorable.

He's never been a "face" though - he has a great head shape, the perfect dumb jock jughead with those big ears, and beautiful eyes. But he's always had a bit of special needs to him -- in the best way possible. If he can just keep that jawline, which is breathtaking in profile, AND the hot ass, then he'll be fine.

Legs? Did anyone say Legs?