Step-Up Actor Channing Tatum will play the role of a male stripper in an upcoming Steven Soderbergh movie called Magic Mike.
Magic Mike, will be loosely based on Channing Tatum’s real-life experience as a male exotic dancer (when he was 19), but in the film Channing will play the old veteran who tutors an up-and-coming male stripper on the grinds of working in the industry.
Speaking about the project, Tatum recently spoke to the press about the project: “This was a wild and pivotal time in my life and I couldn’t be more thrilled to go down the rabbit hole with Steven.”
Soderbergh said in a statement: “When Channing talked to me about this, I thought it was one of the best ideas I’d ever heard for a movie, I said I wanted in immediately. It’s sexy, funny and shocking. We’re using Saturday Night Fever as our model, so hopefully we’re on the right track.”
Channing Tatum has stared in Step-up, The Eagle, The Dilemma, Dear John, and recently teamed up Steven Soderbergh for the action film Haywire, with mixed martial arts fighter Gina Carano, Michael Douglas, Michael Fassbender, and Ewan McGragor. Haywire hits theaters this August, 2011.