Channing Tatum proud of looks

Channing Tatum thinks his good looks are down to the "genetic lottery" of having attractive parents.

Channing Tatum feels he won the "genetic lottery".

The 31-year-old star - who worked as a model and a stripper before embarking on a movie career - insists he doesn't make career decisions to try and detract away from his looks and be taken seriously as an actor but looks for what makes a good story.

He said: "I won a genetic lottery, my parents are very good-looking people and so... But no, don't make decisions on how people see you, just do f***ing good stories and characters.

"Don't do them because you think they're smart or because they counteract some other things you've played.

"If I tried to do something for my career and it didn't work out, that would feel more empty and more like I made a mistake."

Channing admitted he feels like the "luckiest guy on the planet" because he loves his work so much.

He added to Total Film magazine: "I never felt like a model. Someone just saw me on the street.

"Then I got into acting and now I am so obsessed with acting it's ridiculous. At the moment I just read, watch movies and create - that's all I really wanna do. I feel like the luckiest guy on the planet."