Joey King Has 'Amazing' Reunion with Her Movie-Dad Channing Tatum 11 Years After White House Down

Joey King played costar Channing Tatum's daughter in the 2013 action movie 'White House Down'

Joey King Has a Reunion with Her Movie-Dad Channing Tatum 11 Years After White House Down
Joey King with Channing Tatum in 2013 and 2024. Photo:

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Joey King bumped into her former onscreen dad Channing Tatum.

The A Family Affair and Despicable Me 4 actress, 24, shared photos of her recent visit to The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, where Fly Me to the Moon star Tatum, 44, was also in the building.

The former costars hugged and smiled backstage together, 11 years after they shared the screen in 2013's White House Down.

"DREAM COME TRUE!!!!!! And I got to reunite with Channing," she wrote in a caption on Instagram. "tonight was amazing thank you @fallontonight."

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Channing Tatum and Joey King in "White House Down" (2013).

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Back in 2014, a then-14-year-old King told Cosmopolitan that her sisters were jealous when she got to work with Tatum on White House Down.

"I also loved the fact that I got to work with an actor that I admired so much, Channing Tatum," she said at the time. "I went in for a screen test before I got the job, and I read with him, and I was so excited because I loved his work so much. My sisters, when they heard I was going for a screen test with him, were like, 'Oh my God, he's so hot. Amazing. Love him.' "

She added of the action film, "When I found out that I got the job, I was overjoyed because not only did I get to work with Channing and get to have a great part, I also got to work with [director] Roland Emmerich, who is amazing. It was just an all-around incredible experience."

Actress Joey King and actor Channing Tatum attends "White House Down" New York Premiere at Ziegfeld Theater on June 25, 2013
Joey King and Channing Tatum at the "White House Down" New York premiere on June 25, 2013.

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During her recent appearance on The Tonight Show, King called her A Family Affair costars Nicole Kidman and Zac Efron both "so hot" and "the fittest people I've ever met." She also recalled being a longtime fan of Efron, now 36.

"I grew up with his face on everything I owned," she said. "All the merch I could get my hands on. ... I was such a fan, and he was so, so fantastic. He was so gracious about it."

King's A Family Affair is on Netflix and Despicable Me 4 is in theaters. Tatum's Fly Me to the Moon is in theaters July 12.

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