The actor, 44, posted a picture of himself on Instagram where he showed what he looks like at the moment compared to how he was for a pair of films he worked on.
“We back up! lol,” Tatum said as he put a picture of himself looking in fine physical form, followed by one where he was noticeably larger and then a third image where he was clearly quite a bit skinnier.
“1st photo is today 205. 2nd photo 235 for a movie called Josephine. Then went to 3rd photo which is 172 for a movie Roofman.
“I’m so grateful for my genetics. Grateful for my chef/nutritionist/witch. Grateful for my trainer.
Channing Tatum said this photo was taken recently (Instagram/@channingtatum)
“I couldn’t make these big swings in my weight without you guys. But I won’t be doing anymore fat roles haha. It’s to hard on the body and to hard to take off now.
“But damn when I look at these pics it’s just wild what the human body and will can do.”
The movies Josephine and Roofman are both currently in post-production so Tatum has finished his filming on the projects and it seems clear he’s not interested in doing more body transformations.
While the changes to his physique are certainly impressive as he’s been able to shift between 172lbs (78kg) to 235lbs (106kg) for roles and then settle on something in the middle at 205lbs (93kg), this type of transformation isn’t healthy.
The actor showed how he’d gone between 172lbs and 235lbs for two different movie roles (Instagram/@channingtatum)
He’s not the only actor to say they’re done with the body transformations either.
Christian Bale, who rather famously became skinny as f**k for The Machinist then got ripped for Batman Begins and later in his career piled on the pounds to play Dick Cheney in Vice, has made it clear it’s not a great idea.
Bale said he was done with the body transformation as he didn’t want ‘to die’ after dropping the Vice weight so he could fit into the cars for Ford v Ferrari.
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 star Will Poulter said that getting into shape for his role as the superhero Adam Warlock meant ‘a lot of gym work and a very, very specific diet’.
He added that getting into shape for a role also meant eating ‘quantities of food you wouldn’t necessarily want to ingest, and other times not enough food’.
Tatum preparing for Roofman (Instagram/@channingtatum)
To do the body transformation means a big change in diet and lifestyle, and back in 2022 Tatum himself told The Kelly Clarkson Show that the older he’s got the harder it has been to lose weight, saying that it used to ‘fluctuate’ pretty easily but ‘now, I can’t get it off as easy’.
At the end of the day, the most important thing for Tatum has got to be putting his own health and body first.
