Channing Tatum and Shia LaBeouf were reportedly once partners in crime.
In an extended interview with GQ Magazine, Tatum revealed that he and LaBeouf once got drunk together and acted like "young dumb idiot actors." LaBeouf and Tatum were cast opposite one another in "A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints" and were instructed to get to know one another by the director, Dito Montiel.
The "Magic Mike" star was asked by GQ to recall the wild night he shared with LaBeouf early in his acting years.
According to LaBeouf's version of the story in a 2008 interview with GQ, "We were walking around the Upper East Side in this rebel mind-set, trying to be like street kids. Channing was supposed to be the head honcho in the movie, so he goes, 'All right, you see that bookstore? Somebody throw a rock. Let's break in and steal a Spider-Man bookmark.' And Peter [Tambakis] and me look at each other like, 'Dude, what? Are you f--king kidding me?'"
LaBeouf said that Tatum then broke a glass window, setting off the security system. "He grabs the bookmarks and jets, So now you got these little actor kids running down the street in New York, freaking out."
At the time, a representative for Tatum said that LaBeouf's version of the story was "inaccurate." In the interview the GQ, the actor admitted that LaBeouf's story was partly true.
"I definitely kicked in a window that night, but it wasn't Barnes and Noble's," Tatum told GQ. "We were just running and being hoodlums and throwing trash bags down streets and just being stupid. We were trying to be like '80s hoodlums. And I think as we were running I kicked this thing, not thinking that it would ever shatter. And everything just went raining down. And I was like, 'Oh, s--t.' And then we just took off running.
Tatum added: "We all split up. I think Shia even punched a cop car - we weren't even sure if the cop was in the car, he punched the window of a cop car. It was pandemonium. It was just one of those nights that the volume just keeps getting turned up, turned up, turned up. And we all split up. We all just ran in opposite directions. In hindsight it's the funniest thing in the world - just typical actors trying too hard. It's only fun because we didn't get caught."
Tatum admits that he has not contacted LaBeouf in years, but still recognizes him as "an incredible actor" and hopes to see him return to the big screen soon.
"I just wish that he would just act," he said. "Just act, man!"
