Channing Tatum:"I was not good in school!"

Channing Tatum

Channing Tatum wants to look rough in his roles, so he needs to learn how to handle his image and how to become more macho. And the best way to learn how to do that is asking Clint Eastwood for an advice. "I'm sorry for all of us wimpy actors out there. Please teach me!" 29 year old Tatum wrote in a latter addressed to Eastwood.
In one interview he gave for Details magazine, Tatum explained he always found it hard to learn something, so he always needed extra-explications. "I had a bad stutter when I was really young. I couldn't get a sentence out. Like, 'D-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-ad.' And that turned into a mumble. I was not good in school. I couldn't ever read very fast or very well. I got tested for learning disabilities, for dyslexia. Then I got put on Ritalin and Dexedrine. I took those starting in the eighth grade. As soon as they pumped that drug into me, it would focus me right in. I was doing great. I was getting As, doing extra-credit work!" the actor reveals.
But this hasn't stop him from becoming an actor (or a sexy man), even doing "extra work". And he even took medication, which only made him feel worse. "The longer I took Dexedrine, the worse I felt. It sucked all the personality from me. I'd get depressed. I would think suicidal - I was never personally suicidal, but I could see how some kids were, how they'd be like, 'I can't take this anymore'. Finally, my senior year, I said, 'That's it. I am done with these' ", he added.