Channing Tatum has had a varied career. He has played spies , superheroes , and soft-hearted men (he also dances really well). But there is one role he wished he could play, but it got away: Tatum really, really wanted to play The Beast in a non-Disney version of Beauty & the Beast .

Speaking to Vanity Fair , Tatum said he had been approached about a possible film adaptation of the childhood classic by Guillermo del Toro. The actor turned down the role, a decision he described as “one of the biggest mistakes of my career.”

Tatum is a massive fan of del Toro’s work, but at the time, his then-wife Jenna Dewan had just given birth to their daughter, and he was already engaged “on a movie that was absolutely killing me, and the script wasn’t totally there yet. I was just in a

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