Roofman, the acclaimed Channing Tatum drama inspired by a true story that feels stranger, softer and more human than the headlines that once defined it, premieres exclusively on Lionsgate Play on December 19. The film made its first bow at the Toronto International Film Festival, where audiences rose in warm applause, moved by the quiet emotion it carries beneath its surface. Now, with its India debut on Lionsgate Play, Roofman arrives as a story that lingers in the spaces between who we are and who we hope to become.

Channing Tatum says Lakeith is powerful

Ahead of its premiere in India, Channing Tatum spoke about working with his co-stars Kirsten Dunst and Lakeith Stanfield in Roofman. “Kirsten, man, it seems effortless. She’s just so good. She’s so good. And it’s not effortless. She does care. She’s not just like, whatever. But she just does it, man. She just does it in a way that you almost don’t even… There’s almost like a magic that’s happening that you don’t even know what’s happening to you. You’re just sort of in her aura. I don’t think I even knew who Jeff was and how to play him. And Lakeith helped me a lot in just him holding who Lakeith is. Because Lakeith is so powerful. Like, really, really, really, really, really unbelievably powerful of a human. And it was so easy to just be next to him in a scene and feel like I wanted to listen to anything he had to say.”