How Channing Tatum and Gemma Chan Kept Things ‘Playful’ For ‘Josephine’s’ 8-Year-Old Star Mason Reeves

In Beth de Araújo’s “Josephine,” Channing Tatum and Gemma Chan play parents attempting to keep their daughter Josephine (played by Mason Reeves) safe after she bears witness to a violent crime.

While filming the movie, Araújo, Tatum and Chan made sure to keep Reeves — in her feature film debut — safe and comfortable as she acted through the difficult, raw material.

“Luckily, we had Chan(ning) and Gemma, who are just so warm and so generous on set and always very playful between takes and constantly checking in on Mason in this really beautiful way — to the point where sometimes she was like, ‘I’m fine, it’s Ok,’…