His Best Role

Channing Tatum’s harshest critic also happens to be his smallest: 5-year-old daughter Everly. When one of his films plays on TV, “I’m like, ‘Look! Daddy is on the screen!’ ” reveals the star of the new animated adventure Smallfoot. “She’ll be like, ‘Ugh! Can we watch a real movie?’” Alas, he often obliges. Jokes the 38-yearold: “I’m just like, ‘Copy that!’ ” Tatum, who coparents with estranged wife Jenna Dewan, 37, shares more with Us.

Q: Has Everly seen Smallfoot yet?

Yes, twice! I was really wondering if she was going to like it or not because she only likes movies with female heroes, fairies or princesses. So I was, like, a movie about a bunch of yetis?

Q: Be honest: Did she actually enjoy it?

I was hoping Zendaya’s character would come through and keep her in the theater — and it did!

She loved Zendaya and Common’s rap. Apparently, my daughter loves rap! She loves to rhyme. It’s crazy.

“I will never even come close to how f**king cool she is,” he wrote of Everly on Sept 22.“I’ve never worked so hard to, like, make a girl like me and failed,” Tatum (in L.A. on Sept.22) has said.