Now that’s a meet-cute.
Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum’s meeting was as much of an adventure as their new comedy, “The Lost City.” Minus an evil Daniel Radcliffe.
The actors on Wednesday’s episode of “The Late Late Show” recalled to host James Corden their first meeting — which took place “in the principal’s office of our pre-school,” said the Oscar-winning actress, 57.
“We have two very, very strong-willed little girls that at that young age were very much buttin’ heads,” said Tatum, 41, who shares Everly, now 8, with ex-wife Jenna Dewan.
Bullock, who is mom to now-10-year-old Laila, said that with each call from the school, she’d think, “Please let it be Everly.”
“Of all the people to fight with their daughter,” Tatum recalled thinking.
Bullock asked her co-star if he recalled, after another “altercation,” debating whether she should give Tatum or Dewan a call and the principal instead opted for “a task, a challenge.
“The challenge was who could be the nicest to the other one. So they were bringing each other little Dixie cups of water,” Bullock said.
“I don’t know where they would have learned this competitiveness at all,” the “Magic Mike” star joked, looking toward Bullock.
The “Blind Side” actress admitted that the two “feel comfortable” living in a certain “level of stupidity.
“We go to the lowest common denominator and we feel right at home there,” she said.
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