Alex Pettyfer appeared in the first Magic Mike film, but he was absent from Magic Mike XXL. He’s now giving us some insight as to the reasons behind that.
Pettyfer admitted to having a falling out with Channing Tatum during a chat with Bret Easton Ellis on his podcast B.E.E.
He was candid about their soured relationship, saying Tatum doesn’t like him and rightfully so. Part of that was his behavior on set of Magic Mike and part of that was disrespecting a friend of Tatum’s, who was Pettyfer’s landlord.
“Channing Tatum does not like me – and for many reasons [and] many being my own fault,” he explained, adding Tatum considered him a “risk” but director Steven Soderbergh talked him into giving Pettyfer a part.
He continued to explain that he kept to himself on set and didn’t talk to anyone, which was misconstrued as him thinking he was better than everyone else.
"I was scared to speak,” he said. “I actually did my work and I sat in the corner and listened to music because I had been told that anything I do is wrong by my reps,” admitting he was “very insecure as a human being.”
If that wasn’t enough, Pettyfer said he didn’t pay four months worth of rent to Tatum’s friend after his cousin died and he was confronted by the actor about it in a stern email.
“Don't f--- my friends,” Tatum wrote in the email. “You owe money. Pay the f------ money. Don't be a clown." Instead of paying, he said he took the email “the wrong way” and didn’t pay, which he now admits was wrong.
Although he wasn’t asked back for the sequel and he butchered any relationship he could have with Tatum, Pettyfer said he’s thankful for the experience because it was “kind of the end of my immaturity.”