Channing Tatum’s ‘Roofman’ Reinvention

Channing Tatum has a bum leg. If Tatum hadn’t injured himself shooting “Avengers: Doomsday” in London recently, this profile would have a much more strenuous central set-piece. “We’d probably be bowling or something if I wasn’t like this,” he says, after walking into our lunch meeting with a pronounced limp. For the remainder of the production so far — “We had tons more shooting,” Tatum says, including a “big fight” with Robert Downey Jr.’s Doctor Doom — Tatum was sidelined, sitting in for close-ups and allowing his double to take on the heavy stuff. Today, he says, he’s taken the day off his pain meds “so I wouldn’t be falling asleep on you and drooling. My body doesn’t do well with codeine — and those painkillers the U.K. docs gave me were strong.”