Channing Tatum has impressive dancing skills and superstar acting chops, but how was he first discovered?

Tatum made his film debut in 2005’s Coach Carter at age 24. While the film was a success, it was his roles in 2006’s She’s the Man and Step Up that put him on the map. Step Up director Anne Fletcher knew that Tatum was the perfect person for the role of Tyler Gage, even though the actor did not have any formal dance training.

“Early on, we got a call from Channing’s agent, saying, ‘You need to meet this guy. He’s read the script, he identifies with the character and he knows exactly who this guy is.’ The immediate response to that was, ‘Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure,’” she recalled to Cosmopolitan in August 2016. “You hear that stuff all the time. But we took the meeting, and when we met wi

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