Channing Tatum: ‘Jonah Hill isn’t homophobic’
By Josh Haggis
Channing Tatum has spoken out in defence of his 22 Jump Street co-star Jonah Hill, who was caught on camera using a gay slur last weekend.
Hill apologised publicly twice this week after calling a persistent member of the paparazzi a “faggot” in a moment of impatience.
Now Tatum has backed up his castmate, insisting that Hill’s apology was entirely genuine.
“I’ll jump in and just say that I think most of the time when people have to go on and sort of apologise for something it might not come off all that well because it’s not actually what they mean,” Channing told Extra.
“[But] I can honestly say that is not who [Jonah] is. It came off well and he did it well because he really means it, that wasn’t who he was that day.”
Hill has previously spoken out in support of the LGBT community, criticising Russian President Vladimir Putin in the lead-up to the Winter Olympics in Sochi earlier this year.
Watch Channing Tatum speak up for Hill on Extra below.