{"id":117379,"date":"2024-03-22T21:04:42","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T21:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/03\/22\/ricky-martin-on-giving-channing-tatum-his-big-break-in-she-bangs-music-video\/"},"modified":"2024-03-22T21:04:42","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T21:04:42","slug":"ricky-martin-on-giving-channing-tatum-his-big-break-in-she-bangs-music-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/03\/22\/ricky-martin-on-giving-channing-tatum-his-big-break-in-she-bangs-music-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Ricky Martin on giving Channing Tatum his big break in &#8220;She Bangs&#8221; music video"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-03-22\/Getty_RickyMartin_080423.png\" alt><figcaption>Phillip Faraone\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Ricky Martin<\/strong> is reflecting on giving <strong>Channing Tatum<\/strong> his big break.<\/p>\n<p>Tatum got his career started in 2000 when he appeared in Ricky&#8217;s iconic &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5ihtX86JzmA&amp;feature=youtu.be\">She Bangs<\/a>&#8221; music video. He played a bartender who served Ricky and other partygoers. On Thursday&#8217;s episode of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=N1xbyqee3eU\"><em>Watch What Happens Live<\/em><\/a>, Ricky spoke to host <strong>Andy Cohen<\/strong> about casting Tatum in the video.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think he said thank you for the first opportunity,\u201d Ricky said. &#8220;Super cool.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ricky then described how they came across Tatum in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Miami, I just told the people from the production of the video to go out scouting and invite everybody to the Bahamas,\u201d Ricky said. \u201cAnd that\u2019s what happened, and there he was.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tatum recalled the project in a video for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZzXHHije0rA\"><em>Wired<\/em><\/a> in 2022. \u201cMy very first job ever was a Ricky Martin video,\u201d Tatum said. \u201cI was a bartender with face paint and a mohawk &#8230; It was fun, it was great.\u201d<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phillip Faraone\/Getty Images Ricky Martin is reflecting on giving Channing Tatum his big break. Tatum got his career started in 2000 when he appeared in Ricky&#8217;s iconic &#8220;She Bangs&#8221; music video. He played a bartender who served Ricky and other partygoers. On Thursday&#8217;s episode of Watch What Happens Live, Ricky<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/03\/22\/ricky-martin-on-giving-channing-tatum-his-big-break-in-she-bangs-music-video\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,426,427],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117379"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}