Channing Tatum rejecting 'Beauty and the Beast' role was 'one of the biggest mistakes'

Channing Tatum was set to play "The Beast" in Guillermo Del Torro's "Beauty and the Beast" that ended up never seeing the light of day, but Tatum said it was "one of the biggest mistakes" of his career to reject the role.

Tatum's "no" to the part came from the fact that he just welcomed his daughter, Everly, now 12, with his ex-wife, actress Jenna Dewan, and he was busy working on another movie at the time.

Tatum told Vanity Fair, "One of the biggest mistakes of my career - Guillermo del Toro wanted to do 'Beauty and the Beast,' his version of the Beast. And I’d just had a baby, I was on a movie that was absolutely killing me, and the script wasn't totally there yet. I was just in a place in my head that I was like, 'I don't think I can do this right now.' It was the biggest mistake, because I'm the biggest Guillermo fan ever. And I think Guillermo doing Beauty and the Beast would've been the sickest movie ever."

The 45-year-old actor revealed del Toro never made his version of "Beauty and the Beast."

Tatum's "Roofman" co-star Kirsten Dunst asked him in the Vanity Fair interview, 'And he never did it?" To which he replied, "He didn't do it."

The "Magic Mike" star continued, "He's got a billion other things that he wants to do. He's such a creator. I'll probably never forgive myself on that one, but I hope we get to work together one day. Like Derek and I did. I think 'Blue Valentine' time was always supposed to be Ryan [Gosling]'s."

He also said, "At that point in my life, it was such a sad story, and I had not had a sad relationship like that. I just don't think I could have done it."