Poor Jamie Foxx and Channing Tatum. In the face of unceremonious failure for this summer’s White House Down, these guys are still required to promote this movie for a Berlin premiere (above) and at the Deauville film festival in France (below). As such, the entirety of the weekend and the past few days have seen them internationally promoting a film that they know is a bomb, but they seem like they’re being good sports about it. It’s all in a day’s work, right? Maybe foreign audiences will be more excited about this Die Hard ripoff than the domestic take would presume, but I don’t know. Oh and in spite of rumors of a Tatum-Foxx bitchfight , Channing insisted to GMA that they loved working together: “[I]n real life me and Jamie got on the first minute we met each other. We’re both Southern boys so it was just easy.”

In other news, Jamie gave a rousing speech last week at the March on Washington anniversary where he insisted that the next generation needs to continue fighting for equality. If you didn’t see his speech, you can watch it here. He also says that stars like Beyonce and Kanye need to pick up where Martin Luther King Jr. left off. Jamie has previously stated (to Vibe magazine) that “every single thing in my life is built around race,” and I imagine that he made a series of conscious decisions to play both a slave and a U.S. president within the same year.

Jamie Foxx also covers the October issue of Men’s Health UK, which causes all sorts of butterflies in my tummy. Those guns:

On his breakout role in Any Given Sunday: “I got into the movie and there’s Al Pacino, Cameron Diaz. The one thing I had on my side was I played football. I knew more about it than them. I relied on that.”

On being a late acting bloomer at 31: “You just have to live. I did it in the ‘hood for a long time, and then I did it uptown, where the audience is Robert De Niro and Al Pacino and all those guys. You still remain the same person, and you get your stamp. It’s like a passport.”

On staying relevant: “One thing I’ve learnt is you have to rely on someone to tell you what’s hot and what’s not as you get older. That’s what I do: I ask. I’m still learning how to stay current — and at the same time not lose who I am, not be too young.”

Staying out of the Hollywood circus: “Here’s what you’re going to unlearn now. You have to pull yourself away from the media — not be so shiny in the next 10-years, because it hurts the art and that’s the only thing that’s going to survive. That’s the tricky part: how do you navigate through the world and still be an artist?”

On his fitness mistake: “I’ve been doing bench presses my whole life. The chest, the front — but I hadn’t been working my back, so it made me hunch forward.”

[From Men’s Health]

Unfortunately, these excerpts provide precious little information on how to achieve Jamie’s level of fitness, but these photos did prompt me to recheck his age because it’s so hard to believe that he’s 45 years old. Based upon his looks, the guy seems like he’s mid-30s at the most. Some dudes have all the luck.

Photos courtesy of Men’s Health, Fame/Flynet, and WENN