There are a few things Channing Tatum can’t live without. From his loyal dog Cutie to his vintage Polaroid camera, trusty deck of playing cards, and bottle of Versace Eros—watch and learn more about Channing Tatum’s 10 essentials.
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00:00Did you go through an Axe phase?
00:01I never went through an Axe phase.
00:02Axe was like way later.
00:04The commercials for Axe seemed like a lot.
00:06They were just like,
00:07Oh!
00:08Like.
00:08What's up, this is Channing Tatum
00:13and these are my GQ essentials.
00:21I would say one of the most essential elements is,
00:27Cutie, off.
00:28Good girl.
00:29A multi-purpose protection dog
00:31that you can have a lot of fun with, with friends.
00:34She'll bite them, cuddle them.
00:36Overall, find them anywhere in the darkness
00:38and protect you in their house.
00:40And she looks so cute, doesn't she?
00:41That's why her name is Cutie.
00:42We used to have a collar on her that says,
00:45don't mistake my kindness for weakness.
00:47Always have one of these with you.
00:50Packed cards.
00:52Yes.
00:53He is very, very gambit,
00:54but I've always, since I was a kid,
00:56kind of been fascinated with cards.
00:58I've never really studied magic or anything,
01:00but it just feels good to have cards in your hand
01:03and throwing them at your friends.
01:04Gotta always watch out.
01:07I don't know what came first exactly.
01:09Did I like cards before Gambit or not?
01:11I think Gambit probably had like a lot to do with it.
01:14He made them really, really cool.
01:15No one in this entire industry has like,
01:19looked out for me in the way that Ryan has.
01:23No one was asking for it.
01:24And it's just, he's a champion for it
01:26and I'll owe him for pretty much the rest of my life.
01:29Be in my buddy's movie and dress up
01:31like my favorite superhero.
01:32Like, I'll be happy with that.
01:36It's kind of like my comfort zone place.
01:39Like, cause you, you kind of can't take a bad picture
01:41with a Polaroid.
01:43It's so nostalgic for me.
01:44I could truly like talk about this thing forever.
01:47You could never have picked up a camera before in your life
01:50and take a picture of a Polaroid
01:51and it's somehow probably gonna look cool.
01:53The viewfinder is like not perfect.
01:55So it's kind of childlike.
01:57You can't perfectly measure it.
01:59Hopefully, hopefully they'll show you what that picture
02:02actually looks like.
02:03Do you believe in shaking them out?
02:05I only believe in shaking it,
02:06like a Polaroid picture because of Andre 3000.
02:09Polaroids play a bit of a sinister part in Blink Twice.
02:13It can take such a innocuous thing.
02:15Everybody knows the sound.
02:16Everybody knows like what the pictures look like.
02:18And you're like, oh, I love those things
02:20and kind of turn it and make it feel this
02:22like a ominous presence.
02:25And it's just fun.
02:28You can just keep doing it all day.
02:31This is very important.
02:33If you're gonna be cuddling a sometimes smelly dog.
02:37And it was Versace.
02:39When I was a model,
02:40I always wanted to walk in the Versace show.
02:44I was 20 years old, went to Milan for my first time
02:46being like, hi, please just hire me.
02:48I never got it.
02:49I never got the Versace show.
02:51Cut to, man, 20 more years later.
02:55I'm actually getting to like be the face of their fragrance.
02:59And it's really, I don't know,
03:00full circle strange like moment for me.
03:03You can put a lot of care into like how you look,
03:05what your outfit is.
03:06It's a bit of like the cherry on top.
03:08It's like the intention of what,
03:09how do you want people to like feel you in the room?
03:12Just wake up and go.
03:14The first fragrance I wore,
03:16I think that would have to be Curve.
03:19Bought it at Rite Aid
03:20or actually it was in Florida.
03:22It was like Eckerd's.
03:23Kid Macho that I played football with.
03:25He was like the pairing of Ice Breakers,
03:27gum and Curve.
03:29You gotta have Curve and Ice Breakers
03:30and it's a perfect like mix.
03:32Did you go through an Axe phase?
03:34I never went through an Axe phase.
03:35Axe was like way later.
03:36The commercials for Axe seemed like a lot.
03:38They were just like, oh!
03:41Like I did one spray of this and I, moderation kids.
03:47This next one is actually very nostalgic
03:49for so many reasons.
03:50This is the original Pussy Island lighter
03:53that now I wish I could kind of do this
03:56and it said blink twice,
03:57but it has a smiley face.
03:59You know, in the movie,
04:00we have a lighter that is a story point
04:02that you need to pay attention to
04:04and blink twice.
04:05And this is a big, big key to all of that.
04:08It was called Pussy Island, guys.
04:09And it was tested
04:11and people don't like hearing the word, apparently.
04:14I fell in love in creating this movie.
04:17I don't actually know my relationship
04:19with my partner outside of this film,
04:21so it's gonna be very interesting when the movie's over.
04:23It's just a really special, special thing
04:25to get to create with your partner.
04:28If you are thinking that you're in love,
04:30if you think that you wanna get married
04:33or have a baby with somebody,
04:35go find the hardest possible creative project with them.
04:37I don't care if it's like building a deck,
04:40painting a room,
04:41just go do something creative together
04:44and not just if you survive it,
04:45if you actually enjoy it.
04:47And needed that person during that journey,
04:51I would say that you're in a good place.
04:54If you don't, maybe you should, yeah, bail, run.
04:58I'm kidding, don't do that.
05:00["Pussy Island"]
05:04I think that you need comfort things
05:05and your essentials
05:06and I don't like going anywhere
05:08without a picture of my little girl.
05:11She's very, very cute and she's so weird
05:13and I love her more than I can say.
05:15So can't go anywhere without her.
05:16Even in her little stare there,
05:20she's just plotting the whole time.
05:22You can tell that she's physically
05:24just plotting my demise
05:26or some sort of a joke or trick.
05:28She's a trickster.
05:29There's a friend of ours, Uncle Aaron,
05:31that is very clean and then he's a bit OCD
05:36and she stole all of the paper,
05:38like the toilet paper and paper towels
05:40in the entire house.
05:41And she put a non-rippable piece of toilet paper
05:45in his bathroom.
05:47He goes to the bathroom
05:48and then physically can't find toilet paper
05:50for about 20 minutes.
05:53So she's just constantly messing with people
05:55on a minute-to-minute basis
05:56and you can't stop it.
05:58It's just an unstoppable force.
06:00You don't need these tools exactly,
06:02but I kinda just like to mess around.
06:05One of my favorite things on an airplane
06:07is just grabbing a napkin
06:09and like a ballpoint pen
06:11and just, I don't know, sketch.
06:13Like, do whatever that you're actually feeling.
06:17Out.
06:18See what happens.
06:20So you kinda just kinda go away, in my opinion.
06:23If you want it to be something cool,
06:24it's probably not gonna be something cool.
06:26When I personally work hard on something,
06:28I'm like, oh, it sucks, I hate it.
06:30But right now, you're just kinda like,
06:31all right, I'm just gonna just scribble and be stupid.
06:34Art for me is a bit of a therapy in a way,
06:37like specifically something like this
06:39that you don't need it to be good.
06:41You don't need to come back to it.
06:42It's not asking to be good.
06:44It's not wanting to be good.
06:45Nine times out of 10, I'll do something
06:47and be like, oh, wow,
06:48there's this little cool part about it.
06:50You can actually be like, all right, I'm a clown now.
06:53We're going to be a clown now.
06:55No one cares.
06:56Ha ha ha.
06:59Pants generally are essentials in life.
07:02You will get arrested if you don't wear them.
07:04My go-tos are Dickies and Carhartts.
07:06You can wear them in a disaster situation.
07:08You can wear them while you're painting
07:10with your daughter in the backyard.
07:11They're just sort of infallible, in my opinion.
07:14I've grown up with them in so many different ways.
07:16I have a pair of Dickies that I've had
07:18since I was probably 18 years old.
07:22Like, I was framing houses in these things.
07:24And now they're my comfort clothes.
07:26They don't fit very well anymore.
07:28My butt's gotten bigger.
07:29I'll get back down to that weight.
07:32There's really not a better marriage
07:34for Carhartts or Dickies than just white t-shirts.
07:38For me, specifically Hanes is my go-to.
07:41Just a plain white tee.
07:42White tank tops, ribbed, not the weird sort of fitted ones.
07:48I was always gravitated to just like a very simple,
07:51old, tattered, white shirt.
07:53It's just a classic thing.
07:54I hate doing laundry.
07:56Like, I hate it more than I can possibly say.
07:58I had one year that I called
08:00the year of the fresh white tee.
08:01And I don't think I did laundry all year that year.
08:04I just wore white t-shirts that I just bought.
08:08Like, I'd be like,
08:09I can get like two wears out of this week.
08:10This is gonna be good.
08:11The year of the fresh white tee,
08:1299 or 2000.
08:14It's a beautiful year.
08:17I like Mezcal.
08:18It is so nice when it touches your lips.
08:20Look, Gloss Explorer is a brand that I just F with, man.
08:23It's just unbelievably clean and pure.
08:26There's not a lot of brands that can truly say
08:29that it was made in the most clean and intentional way.
08:33F you.
08:35Panic.
08:36Straight panic.
08:37I'm not gonna drink it,
08:38but in my mind, I'm drinking it.
08:42All right, guys, that's it.
08:43Thank you for watching the essentials.