Even I can beat up battered beefcake Foxcatcher star Channing Tatum!

Sometimes I forget I’m just a wee Scottish guy here in Hollywood.

Six-foot tall, toned, muscled bodies are absolutely everywhere apart from the bathroom mirror when I look in it.

This point was hammered home when I met a true Hollywood beefcake last week Channing Tatum.

The 21 Jump Street and Magic Mike star is famous for his burly physique nearly as much as his acting skills, and plays a wrestler in the thriller Foxcatcher.

It’s a remarkable true story, also starring Mark Ruffalo and Steve Carrell, and it’s been tipped for Oscar glory.

“Channing Tatum. What kind of a name is that,” I didn’t dare say to him, in case he tried out some of the wrestling moves he learned for the movie on me.

“I’m so beat up from wrestling even you could probably take me,” he joked.

“In boxing you can put the camera in such a way so the punch doesn’t have to connect. But we couldn’t fake it, it was as close to real thing as you can get.

“We wrestled for about seven months solid and, if I never wrestle again, then I’ll be really happy.

“It’s such a painfully suffocating sport. You can’t breathe. You’re constantly asking yourself: ‘Am I dying or am I just hurting?’

Big Channing was a pleasure to interview he turned up early and made a point of shaking the hand of each of the crew. He also very sweetly called everyone “sir”.

There was a delay in filming but he was happy to wait around for the production crew to fix the problem.

You can see why loads of women fancy him as well as being an all-American hunk he’s a likeable fella as well.

He might even earn himself a couple of nominations come award season for his role as Olympian Mark Schultz. And it was announced that Channing is getting his own superhero role, in the movie Gambit.

You know you’ve made it in Hollywood when you get your own superhero movie.

Steve Carell plays the creepy John DuPont and he’s not playing his usual quirky, nice guy here.

“Steve’s a lovingly warm individual, but we kept our distance,” said Channing. “We never got to bond until after the film and sort of kept our distance throughout.

“His performances in other movies don’t come from him being the funny guy. They come from Steve having a whip smart perspective into a situation.

“This is a perspective of John DuPont someone who’s definitely not funny. This isn’t a funny movie. In fact if you’re having a bad day, this might not be the movie you want to see!”