Tatum casting his Magic in West End

She challenges Mike to impress her, and for a minute you’re not sure he can. This is true of a visit to a private Savannah strip club, whose owner, Rome (Jada Pinkett Smith) has an unresolved past with Mike.

“That Latin swagger!” Pinkett Smith told Latin Post in an exclusive interview. It was surreal to walk on set of the Tarantino movie and hear his laugh, a laugh I’ve heard for years. Nowhere is this more evident than in the film’s final act, a almost 20-minute long series of scenes involving back-to-back performances from the film’s stars as they attempt to take the top spot at the national convention with a string of complex, mouth-watering routines (just wait for Tatum’s grand finale, which feels like this film’s version of Pitch Perfect’s “Cups”). Women are fainting. You’re hearing ShamWow and Backstreet Boys references, watching Tatum’s Mike give new meaning to the word “grinding” and seeing Tobias in Carmen Miranda drag complete with red heels. While the chemistry still there, the loyalty is stronger.

The film is essentially a road trip flick.

“I wanted something that I could add power to and be sexy and be accessible to women and men. So we went through a lot of Cheetos bags, but the rest of the routine, the dancing part, was maybe two or three [takes]”. “I rooted for Colombia in the World Cup and she roots for the Steelers”. That probably was the aspect that was most important and the core and foundation in building her character.

“It was pretty inspirational”.

“No matter how we appear or are perceived in the press, the root of our relationship is that I’m a down-to-earth Pittsburgh guy, and I found a very down-to-earth girl, as well, in my fiancee”. I know: I’m not the target audience. “I felt like I was going to a house party”, offers the beaming actress. Her knowledge of human trafficking, coupled with his experiences, made for a “beautiful partnership”, she says. It all ends with a 20-minute group lap-dance.

[ Related: Enjoy Channing’s lovely Ab Evolution ].

He said: ‘I have one enormous ab right now and it’s not even hard. Brawny and big-hearted, it’s a sequel that might well take in even more than the 2012 original’s $113.7 million domestic gross based on an intrinsic appeal that may reach further than its prime target of female and gay audiences.

“We were all there giving each other the license to cut loose”. “There was a special psychology that was happening in the idea of allowing ourselves to be open in public with one another”. They’re into the game for validation – can they make women swoon? – which boils over in a riotous scene where Manganiello, an exaggeration of male romance-novel beauty, nervously lampoons his own attractiveness in a Quik-E-Mart, pouring bottled water and Cheetos on his chest.

“When the camera was behind me at one point, the Cheetos bag was exploding perfectly, but then when it came around to the front, for whatever reason, they didn’t want to explode in a theatrical manner”.

Ken (Matt Bomer) is a New Age fanatic, Tito (Adam Rodriguez) wants to launch a frozen yogurt business, while towering Big Dick Richie (Joe Manganiello) seeks a southern belle (Andie McDowell) not afraid of his, er, generous size.

Magic Mike: XXL Now that’s how you title a sequel.

When it comes to the dance sequences, Magic Mike XXL largely functions like a gonzo Broadway musical, with the characters breaking it down at the weirdest times and sometimes in the most inappropriate of places.