Channing & Jamie's Sword Fight

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Well I just have to cut and paste this entire exchange from Vulture's interview with Channing Tatum then, don't I?

Vulture: In The Eagle, there are two male leads but no female love interests. Would you say there’s a homoerotic element to the film?

Channing: Well there are swords, and two guys are sword fighting. There’s a metaphor there I’m sure. And back in the Roman day I think it was probably more accepted than it is now. But there’s none in the movie. Me and [director Kevin Macdonald] talked a lot before we started filming: There is no love story in the movie, but it’s a relationship movie for sure.

Vulture: There’s been a lot of buzz about the master-slave relationship going on there. Seems a little BDSM.

Channing: I think Jamie had a lot of fun having me as a slave. I don’t think I took advantage of it like I should have when he was my slave. But Jamie, yeah — he abused me. So maybe there was some frustration coming out a little bit here and there.

Vulture: But would you say there’s a bromance aspect to it? They need each other even though they resent each other — that’s the basis for a lot of love stories.

Channing: I think there’s love in any relationship, whether it’s between a man and a woman, an animal and a person. Look, you have a need to be understood, humans gather around each other and they need to help each other through things. Jamie’s character and my character through trial by fire had to figure out how to understand each other. So I guess you could call it a bromance.

Vulture: How about in real life?

Channing: Jamie and I have a bromance. We’ve been having sex for a few years now.

Vulture: How’s that going?

Channing: Going fantastic.

Vulture: He’s a lot smaller than you. He’s really small.

Channing: He’s a goer though.

Vulture: What’s a goer?

Channing: I don’t know. I just made it up.

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