Channing Tatum Recalls Crazy Night with Shia LaBeouf- 'We Were Trying To Be Like '80s Hoodlums'

By Mitch Thorpe, Mstars News writer | May 27, 2014 03:02 PM EDT

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We knew he was a bad boy, but Channing Tatum just blew our mind with his latest confession.

The 22 Jump Street star tells the June issue of GQ Magazine that during the filming for 2006's A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, him and costar Shia LeBeouf became fast friends, even enjoying a night of total and utter chaos together.

""Me and Shia, I think we had just met that day. We were, like, 'What shall we go out and do?' We were drinking. And I think our initial thing was 'Alright, let's go out and try and get in a fight!' This was just young, dumb idiot actors thinking that that's going to bond us. Because we'll shed blood together, blah, blah, blah. I've never seen him since then."

Shia talked about the now infamous night during a 2008 interview with GQ saying that they tried to break into a bookstore to sell what else but a Spider-man bookmark. Sounds like a smart plan, right? LeBeouf tells the magazine that Channing broke the glass window, grabbed the bookmark and booked it down the street while the security alarm rang in the background.

Tatum owns up to the act of vandalism in the interview saying "I definitely kicked in a window that night. But it wasn't Barnes and Nobles. Just a window."

The heartthrob adds, "We were just running and being hoodlums and throwing trash bags down streets and just being stupid. We were trying to be like '80s hoodlums. And I think as we were running I kicked this thing, not thinking that it would ever shatter. And everything just went raining down. And I was like, 'Oh, s--t.' And then we just took off running.  We all split up. I think Shia even punched a cop car-we weren't even sure if the cop was in the car, he punched the window of a cop car. It was pandemonium. It was just one of those nights that the volume just keeps getting turned up, turned up, turned up. And we all split up. We all just ran in opposite directions."

The actor owns up to his actions now, and in retrospect he realizes that the night of drunken debauchery was probably not the smartest idea.

"It's only fun because we didn't get caught...that I can have perspective on it now and know it was stupid. I don't think we were thinking."

While Tatum has grown up since that night, the same can't be said about LeBeouf who's antics stil make headlines to this day.

The new father does say that he has the upmost respect for Shia's talent telling GQ that "The kid's an incredible actor...I just wish that he would just act. Just act, man!"

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