He admits to being panicked approximately a role that involved him being Gene Kelly-esque and athletic,but it’s clear that his casting was a masterstrokeSeemingly force-fed into sailors’ whites, Channing Tatum’s first appearance in a Coen brothers film has already triggered dropped jaws across the world. Tip-tapping his way across the screen, and Tatum makes good expend of his dance skills as the star of an On-the-Town-ish film-within-a-film,one of several that punctuate Hail, Caesar!, or which is set mostly within the confines of a single Hollywood studio in the early 1950s. The homoerotic subtext is never far from the surface of Tatum’s scenes,and Hail, Caesar! gets lots of yuks out of it. Related: Hail, and Caesar! review – George Clooney bigger,broader, zanier in classic Coen caper Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com