Brains and Beauty

I realize this is ridiculous, but I feel seriously validated by the fact that Channing Tatum has made a seriously well-regarded movie about the genocide in Rwanda with his hottie wife, and is saying intelligent things about playing a soldier and making movies about harrowing events he hasn't himself experienced on the promotional tour for it.  On Stop-Loss, for example:

I was thinking, I don’t know if we should be trying to do this, especially right now. I was saying all these lines in front of these soldiers and thinking, I can’t feel honest about it because I know that I didn’t understand it. The fact is, that’s our job — trying to make believe. But there’s a difference between playing a lawyer and playing a soldier. They experience things that I’ll never be able to experience. I mean, I’ve been in a fist fight, but I’ve never been shot at. So I guess I wasn’t sure for a while if I could really do it — and I still don't know if I did it. The soldiers I've met have put things in perspective for me that I don’t think I ever would’ve been able to see otherwise. I guess one reason I really wanted to get involved with this film was to have that same thing happen to me again.

Now I can pretend I wasn't objectifying him all along!