Channing Tatum wants to help balance the scales of objectifaction and empower women with his new Magic Mike Live male strip show, set to premier in Las Vegas in March. He brought a live preview with him to “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” on Tuesday much to the delight of the women in her studio audience.
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The original movie “Magic Mike” did well with gay audiences, but the sequel “Magic Mike XXL,” not so much. Whether the Las Vegas revue will appeal to gay men remains to be seen, but if the reaction of the women at “Ellen” are any indication it may need only to please that demographic.
The dancers don’t get past taking off their shirts and doing some light acrobatic and floor humping moves. How much skin the live show will feature will likely play a large part in determining who shows up come March.
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Tatum explained the inspiration for the live show.
“I had a friend that had a girlfriend who went to Vegas and went to some of the male revues there and she didn’t tell my buddy about it and he’s like, ‘Why didn’t you tell me?’ She was embarrassed. She was like, ‘I don’t know, it just wasn’t cool,'” he said. “We just thought, let’s go make something cool. Let’s go make something really for you guys and hopefully we’re going to be able to do that.”
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He said he would remain in a producer only role unless he gets back into shape, and then he may hit the stage.
“As you know, I have no issues getting naked,” he pointed out.
Watch Tatum talk about the show and see the dancers show off their talents in the videos below…
Tatum also previewed the show, and some of the dancers, in a video produced by Cosmopolitan. Watch below…
h/t LGBTQ Nation
robho3
For being a lesbian Ellen sure does like looking at half naked men. Crazy girl!
AlliterationAddict
@robho3: I think that she knows her audience!
AlliterationAddict
For the record, I am completely on board with Magic Mike in Virtual Reality. I can think of . . . applications.
VampDC
I hate these shows that have such a heavy gay male audience yet only market themselves to women. Only bring women on stage.
But have NO problem taking all the gay men money!
Captain Obvious
Channing Tatum seems to try really hard to pretend he’s not doing this because he’s into it so he puts huge focus into his supposed female audience.