Channing Tatum currently holds the title for the coolest Lip Sync battle thanks to Beyoncé's surprise appearance. And it seems her cameo on the hit show was also a bit of a shock for Channing, who has revealed that prior to her coming out on stage, he had never even met Beyoncé before."I won't even tell you what I had to do to essentially get her assistant's phone number," the 35-year-old actor joked during an interview on The Ellen DeGeneres Show this week.
Channing Tatum spoke to Ellen about meeting Beyoncé for the first time
For his appearance on Lip Sync Battle, Channing not only mimed along to Beyoncé's hit 2011 track Run the World (Girls), but he also dressed up as her. "I didn't even have the intention of her coming… I wanted to bring like a cardboard cut-out of Beyoncé out just to be funny, and then ultimately I ended up having to meet Beyoncé doing Beyoncé, and that was definitely the most terrifying thing I've ever done," he said.Channing then compared the superstar singer to Kevin Spacey's elusive and mysterious character in The Usual Suspects. "She's like Keyser Soze,” he said. "You know she exists, but you never see her until all of a sudden, you're just like, 'It happened. Wait, that was her, right?'"
Channing went on to reveal that Beyoncé left right after the performance, but did text him later saying that she would love to meet up with him and his wife, Jenna Dewan Tatum.During the interview with Ellen, Channing also opened up about his two-year-old daughter Everly, revealing that the toddler is in the "terrible twos" stage, and most of the time wants to spend all day in her pyjamas or naked. "I get it, I get it," the Magic Mike star admitted. "Which always feels very hypocritical. Because you go, 'You have to wear clothes'. And she's just like, 'Nope. Nope, not doing that', and I'm like, 'Well, ok.' You just, ya know, you just go with it."
