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Channing Tatum on Stripping: I Was a 'Fool in a Stupid Outfit'
Originally posted 05/22/2012 03:15PM
Matthew McConaughey and Joe Manganiello joke around about what went into preparing for their roles as strippers in Magic Mike – but Channing Tatum, who actually worked as one in real life, says there really wasn't anything fun about it.
"You're just a guy taking off his clothes, looking like a fool in a stupid outfit," Tatum, 32, tells Out magazine in its June/July cover story.
The toughest part for the actor was the actual removing of the clothing.
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Matthew McConaughey Didn't Use a 'Stunt A––' in Magic Mike
Originally posted 05/17/2012 08:50AM
When Matthew McConaughey gets cheeky in his new movie, Magic Mike, rest assured, it's definitely him.
"That's all me up there," the actor tells the Advocate in a new interview of (mostly) baring it all in his striptease scene. "I don't need a stunt a––."
As for the exposure, the actor says he just wanted to go for it.
"I said, 'I gotta dance, man.' I would regret it for the rest of my life if I was in a male stripper movie and didn't get up there and strip myself," he says, noting that his big scene wasn't initially in the script. "At first it was scary as hell, but then it became like a drug and I couldn't wait to do it again."
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Joe Manganiello's Biggest Magic Mike Challenge? Wearing a Thong!
Originally posted 04/28/2012 05:00PM
For True Blood's Joe Manganiello, playing a stripper for the upcoming movie Magic Mike meant wearing a thong for the first time.
"I wore these little thongs that literally go up your butt, and it definitely takes getting used to," Manganiello, 35, told PEOPLE at the IWC Schaffhausen watch boutique opening in New York.
"It was uncomfortable at first. It sort of felt like a wedgie," he said, "but once you get into the routine of wearing one, you know what to do and you just do your thing. We all had to suffer a bit for our craft."
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Channing Tatum Puts on a (Shirtless) Show in Magic Mike Trailer
Originally posted 04/19/2012 10:35AM
For a movie about male strippers, the trailer for Magic Mike (watch below) offers an appropriately tantalizing tease – and allows Channing Tatum to show off the moves he perfected in that line of work once upon a time.
From the moment it begins, the trailer is the Channing show, as he leads costar Alex Pettyfer into an all-girl party dressed as police officers.
Soon, we see Tatum, 31 – as the title character – grinding, break-dancing, flipping and spinning on stage at a strip club, putting on a bravura performance for an adoring crowd. (Only later does it become clear that he's conflicted about his career.)
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Joe Manganiello Is Fine with Getting Naked on True Blood
Originally posted 02/22/2012 09:55AM
Joe Manganiello has plenty of experience stripping down for his role as Alcide Herveaux on True Blood – and there's nothing wrong with that, says the hunk.
"As far as the butt cheeks stuff goes, it just makes sense" Manganiello, 35, tells OUT magazine's March issue, of his frequent nudity on HBO's hit series.
"It's not gratuitous; it's realistic," he says. "If you're a werewolf and you transform, you lose everything and there are your butt cheeks."
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Joe Manganiello Gets Swag for the Woman in His Life – His Mother!
Originally posted 09/20/2011 10:00AM
Another sweet couple at the HBO soiree: Heidi Klum and Seal, who were late arrivals at the bash. The two hung out by the bar, and as Klum finished her cocktail, Seal came up behind her and wrapped his arms around her waist, kissing her on the cheek.
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Cheers! Rose McGowan & Joe Manganiello Drink Champagne and Chit Chat
Originally posted 09/14/2011 10:00AM
Rose McGowan was chatting up Joe Manganiello at W Hotels' Fashion Next party in N.Y.C. Before the actress arrived, the True Blood star worried that she may not remember him, even though they had done a table read together last year. But his fears were unfounded, and the two sipped champagne as they caught up, while checking out a performance by British singer Katy B.
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True Blood Stars Celebrate New Season … with Fried Chicken!
Originally posted 06/23/2011 05:00PM
The True Blood cast toasted season four inside a Hollywood hotspot that'd been turned into the show's vampire club Fangtasia. Joe Manganiello and fiancé Audra Marie chowed down on fried chicken and corn pudding, while Anna Paquin let a friend try on one of her rings as husband Stephen Moyer animatedly chatted with friends a table away. Meanwhile, a dateless Alexander Skarsgard worked the room solo.
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True Blood Stars Celebrate New Season...with Fried Chicken?
Originally posted 06/23/2011 06:00AM
• The True Blood cast toasted season four inside a Hollywood hotspot that'd been turned into the show's vampire club Fangtasia. Joe Manganiello and fiancé Audra Marie chowed down on fried chicken and corn pudding, while Anna Paquin let a friend try on one of her rings as husband Stephen Moyer animatedly chatted with friends a table away. Meanwhile, a dateless Alexander Skarsgard worked the room solo.
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Caught in the Act!
Originally posted 06/23/2011 06:00AM
• The True Blood cast toasted season four inside a Hollywood hotspot that'd been turned into the show's vampire club Fangtasia. Joe Manganiello and fiancé Audra Marie chowed down on fried chicken and corn pudding, while Anna Paquin let a friend try on one of her rings as husband Stephen Moyer animatedly chatted with friends a table away. Meanwhile, a dateless Alexander Skarsgard worked the room solo.
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