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Alex Pettyfer talks Channing Tatum feud!
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"Channing Tatum does not like me," Pettyfer says. "For many reasons. Many being my own fault."
The actor goes on to explain that after reports of his bad boy behavior, including some of the incidents above, he was approached by Steven Soderbergh to star in Magic Mike. Even though Soderbergh wanted to cast him, Pettyfer thinks Tatum viewed his past behavior as too much of a business risk, considering that Tatum was putting his own money into the movie.
"I had a very negative past relating to the things that I had done on movies and promotion of movies. And Channing Tatum is an extraordinarily smart businessman," Pettyfer says. "I think he probably didn't want to get into a conflict with Steven and so I was cast."
"I didn't speak on the movie [set]. I was scared to speak," he says. "I did my work and then I sat in the corner and listened to music because I'd been told that anything I do was wrong by my reps and I was very insecure as a human being. That also gave me a bad rep because they said, 'Oh Alex thinks he's f—ing better than everybody else because he doesn't speak to anyone.' And that's not true. I was genuinely nervous and scared to be myself."
After the movie wrapped, he rented an apartment in New York owned by a friend of Tatum's. But he left shortly after arriving, claiming that terrible mold and dust allergies made it difficult for him to breathe. When he left, he was supposed to pay four months' worth of rent, which he realizes now and says repeatedly in the podcast, he should have paid.
"I all of a sudden got a very negative email from Channing, rightfully so, saying, 'Don't f— my friends. You owe money. Pay the f—ing money. Don't be a clown.'"
He says he initially responded with an email saying something to the effect of "I'm in a very negative situation, negative head space, can you respect me for a minute?" But after getting repeatedly "hounded" for rent money while he was grieving for his cousin, Pettyfer said he ultimately decided not to pay them.
"By the end of it I just basically said, 'F— them. What is money when life is so much more?’ and, ‘I’m not dealing with this, and I’m not paying,' " Pettyfer says. "I should have just paid. I think he was looking for an excuse to not like me."
"[Channing] had already told everyone he didn't like me," he explains. "And what Channing says goes because he's a movie star. He's incredible. He's done so well for himself."
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