Channing Tatum suffered a bloody injury while filming a scene with Peter Dinklage

I bet you didn’t imagine a world where Magic Mike showed his bare butt And got injured in front of Tyrion Lannister. I certainly didn’t! Thanks to Channing Tatum, Peter Dinklage and director Derek Cianfrance’s new film “Roofman,” this exact situation has occurred. What a time to be alive.

Directed by Cianfrance and co-written by him and Kirt Gunn, “Roofman” is based on the very real story of burglar Jeffrey Manchester, who escaped from prison and then robbed a ton of stores – including fast food chains – by drilling holes in roofs and entering through the top. He is also infamous lived at a Toys “R” Us whenever it was closed, and It is the scene that left Tatum with a real-life leg injury and a bare butt in front of Emmy-winning Dinklage.

Dinklage plays Mitch, a Toys “R” Us general manager who Jeffrey (Tatum) calls home and who discovers him one night while Jeffrey is taking a shower – and after getting caught, Tatum’s Jeffrey runs away but trips over a whole bunch of things (like a bike rack) and climbs a wall in the process. As Tatum revealed, the entire filming process was a minor, albeit funny, disaster.

“I mean, it wasn’t great, because I’m naked, so I can’t wear pads or anything,” Tatum told Entertainment Weekly. “So I was wet and soapy, and it was just a messy scene. I actually hurt myself jumping on the bike rack, and then I had to do the funny jump into my little hiding place. I didn’t make it over the edge of the hiding place and nicked my [leg]. I still have a scar on my leg from it, and we just had to glue it together and move on.”

As Tatum told Entertainment Weekly, he was worried before the streak even started — and it wasn’t about the possibility of an injury that should be glued back on site. No, Tatum was worried about the nudity; after all, Jeffrey showers during the scene. As Tatum remembered, he had no tonne of confidence in Cianfrance’s assurances that the whole issue of nudity would be addressed.

“I think the most memorable thing, though, was looking at Derek and going, ‘How are we going to shoot this? Because any angle you’re going to see stuff,'” Tatum said, and I’m going to ask you to just imagine what “stuff” means in this context without explaining it myself. After saying that Cianfrance said he would “understand,” Tatum said he… didn’t really feel any better.

And so what did are they doing to make sure he didn’t go full force into a scene that in no way called for such a thing? Tatum isn’t sure about that at all. “I think they must have painted some things,” he mused. “And I don’t really know how it happened. I think there were some… they had to figure out what to do with some things.” (Again, I’ll leave it up to you, dear reader, to figure it out.)

Cianfrance, however, had a particularly funny response to the whole ordeal (minus the leg injury). “Here’s the guy who made biopics about his life as a stripper,” Cianfrance said, referring to the “Magic Mike” film franchise that Tatum based in part on his own pre-stardom experiences. “And I knew how brave he was. I knew how brave he was as a performer.” Fair enough! So how did Peter Dinklage handle all of this?

As Derek Cianfrance told the media, he did check with the “Game of Thrones” veteran to make sure Peter Dinklage was OK with potentially seeing Channing Tatum’s dink…lage. (Sorry.) “I had to ask Peter, I said, ‘I want to make sure you’re OK with what you’re going to see now,'” Cianfrance said before clarifying that he meant Tatum would be completely naked.

Not only that, but according to Cianfrance, the very first time that Dinklage – who won four Emmys for playing Tyrion Lannister in the fantasy series – has ever seen Tatum, it was naked. “So the moment Peter comes out of the break room and sees Channing — the first time Peter saw Channing Tatum in real life, it was the whole Monty,” Cianfrance said. “I think they have a bond now. I think their bond was forged in fire.”

Tatum, who has built a reputation in Hollywood as a fairly laid-back and affable guy, had a typically funny take on his experience working with Dinklage. “I said, ‘Hello, Mr. Dinklage. My name is Channing. We’re going to have an experience today,'” Tatum recalled before warmly congratulating his co-star. “But he is such a man. He is a legend. He is an absolute legend.” In fact, Tatum “confessed” something about Dinklage: “He’s kind of my favorite part of the movie, secretly behind the scenes, don’t tell Kirsten.” [Dunst, who plays Jeffrey’s love interest Leigh Wainscott]. Yeah, he just made it easy and funny and fun. »

“Roofman” is in theaters now, and when you watch the scene at Toys “R” Us, just think of all the blood, sweat and bare butts that made this possible.