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class="ContentHearAccredatn-lfctVB etVsnJ ntent-hear__accredatn" data-ttid="ContentHearAccredatn"><div class="ContentHearDek-bIqFFZ fYeNbg">And ready to talk about life, love, and learng to be a femist.</div><div class="ContentHearByle-kmPyCa emiglw"><div class="ContentHearByleContent-dpPmNn DRFq"><div data-ttid="BylWrapper" class="BylWrapper-KIudk irTIfE byl ContentHearByl-cZqgyJ bHLeKI"><p class="ByleWrapper-jWHrLH jqYyWD byle byl__byle" data-ttid="ByleWrapper" emProp="thor" emType="><span emProp="name" class="ByleNamWrapper-jbHncj fuDQVo"><span data-ttid="ByleName" class="ByleName-kwmrLn cYaBaU byle__name"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BylePreamble-iJolpQ iUEiRd bIbWCO gnILss byle__preamble">By </span><a class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BaseLk-eNWuiM ByleLk-gEnFiw iUEiRd kIEUAJ lddgzd eErqIx byle__name-lk button" href="/ntributor/jsi-prsler">Jsi Prsler</a></span></span></p><p class="ByleWrapper-jWHrLH jqYyWD byle byl__byle" data-ttid="ByleWrapper" 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Corta</a></span></span></p></div><time data-ttid="ContentHearPublishDate" dateTime="2023-01-17T08:00:00-05:00" class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ ContentHearPublishDate-eIBicG iUEiRd bSlZUC cmPkTr">January 17, 2023</time></div></div></div></div><div class="ContentHearLeadAsset-hGbumP fEknXh lead-asset ContentHearLeadAssetWrapper-hfXHEc Grck lead-asset--width-fullbleed" data-ttid="ContentHearLeadAsset"><figure class="ContentHearLeadAssetContent-kOfYSG dRGWbI"><div class="ContentHearLeadAssetContentMedia-bLEIpi jjhWdS lead-asset__ntent__photo"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW jvZaPI rponsive-asset ContentHearRponsiveAsset-bREgIb hONbnm"><div data-tt="aspect-rat-ntaer" class="AspectRatContaer-bJHpJz jgsWEn"><div class="aspect-rat--overlay-ntaer"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa ContentHearRponsiveAsset-bREgIb hONbnm rponsive-image"><source media="(max-width: 767px)" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w" siz="100vw"/><source media="(m-width: 768px)" srcSet=" 120w, 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He's wearg a dark wboy hat and a cream..." class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src="></picture></div></div></span><div class="CaptnWrapper-jSZdqE kIXbGQ ptn ContentHearLeadAssetCaptn-hPWmSN gFWya-d"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnText-bHjzlu iUEiRd hBkROF iXWezO ptn__text">Channg Tatum, photographed Brooklyn, November 9, 2022. Hat by <strong>Stetson</strong>; vtage tank top om <strong>Stock Vtage</strong>.</span><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnCred-ejegDm iUEiRd hCJFDV fNaHcW ptn__cred">PHOTOGRAPH BY MARIO SORRENTI; STYLED BY GEORGE CORTINA.</span></div></div></figure></div></div></hear></div><div data-attribute-verso-pattern="article-body" class="ArticlePageContentBackGround-cNiFNN gVjmSM article-body__ntent"><div class="ActnBarWrapperContent-lasBkU cAHp"><div class="ActnBarWrapperComponent-cjwxLS bEeSLb"><div data-attr-viewport-monor="" class="ActnBarWrapper-dhxmQh izlawS viewport-monor-anchor"><button id="bookmark" aria-label="Save" class="ActnBarButton-dyFOZU foKBbl bookmark large-screen"><span class="ActnBarSendaryButtonPrimaryIn-isbvyN cAwccV bookmark-button-in"><svg class="in in-bookmark" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" xmlns="><tle>Save this story</tle><path class="in-bookmark-stroke" d="M11.7661 16.3228L4.5 20.1695V3.5H19.5V20.1695L12.2339 16.3228L12 16.199L11.7661 16.3228Z" stroke-lep="square"/></svg></span><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ ActnBarButtonText-bYXYuh iUEiRd kdAzed gkccfO">Save</span></button></div><div data-attr-viewport-monor="" class="ActnBarWrapper-dhxmQh ledqMp viewport-monor-anchor"><button id="bookmark" aria-label="Save" class="ActnBarButton-dyFOZU ePWKOF bookmark mobile"><span class="ActnBarSendaryButtonPrimaryIn-isbvyN cAwccV bookmark-button-in"><svg class="in in-bookmark" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" xmlns="><tle>Save this story</tle><path class="in-bookmark-stroke" d="M11.7661 16.3228L4.5 20.1695V3.5H19.5V20.1695L12.2339 16.3228L12 16.199L11.7661 16.3228Z" stroke-lep="square"/></svg></span><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ ActnBarButtonText-bYXYuh iUEiRd kdAzed gkccfO">Save</span></button></div></div></div><div class="ArticlePageChunksContent-etcMtP bwyLBj"><div data-ttid="ArticlePageChunks" class="ArticlePageChunks-fLyCVG eSsnKa"><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa dEQjuV body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p class="has-dropp"><strong>“I’ll go slow,”</strong> promis Channg Tatum. He looks down, his chiseled brow furrowed ncern. “How’s that?” he asks. “Too slow?”</p><p>As an athlete and a dancer, Tatum is ed to ntortg his body to exotic posns, and don’t take long for him to fd his rhythm.</p><figure data-ttid="IameEmbed" class="IameEmbedWrapper-sc-dRedg hZiq iame-embed"><div data-ttid="IameEmbedContaer" class="IameEmbedContaer-hptgUZ hSLYci"><div class="IameEmbedAspectRatWrapper-hFVJps BKpgQ"><iame class="IameEmbedContent-cMdiev csnuAY IameEmbedContent lazyload" height="100" width="350" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-orig allow-popups allow-popups-to-pe-sandbox" tle="Embedd Frame" data-src=" allow="toplay *; encrypted-media *; clipboard-wre; toplay; fullscreen; picture--picture"></iame></div></div></figure><p class="paywall">“Oh, yeah,” he says. His thighs are tt. His massive hands are ma for stuff like this. “That’s what I’m talkg about. Yeah, yeah, yeah.”</p><div class="Contaer-bkChBi byNLHx"></div><p class="paywall">I fd myself startg to lose ntrol. “Oh, God,” I say. “Oh, sh.”</p><div><div class="ConsumerMarketgUnThemedWrapper-iUTMTf jssHut nsumer-marketg-un nsumer-marketg-un--article-mid-ntent" role="prentatn" aria-hidn="te"><div class="nsumer-marketg-un__slot nsumer-marketg-un__slot--article-mid-ntent nsumer-marketg-un__slot---ntent"></div><div class="journey-un"></div></div></div><p class="paywall">“Oh, yeah!” Tatum announc triumphantly. “We’re makg a baby!”</p><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad---ntent"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot---ntent" data-no-id="vd5kgt"></div></div><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="Channg Tatum on the ver of Vany Fair. He ss wh one leg up and one are rtg between his legs. He's wearg..." class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div><div class="CaptnWrapper-jSZdqE kIXbGQ ptn AssetEmbedCaptn-fNQBPI fmQnYP asset-embed__ptn"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnText-bHjzlu iUEiRd hBkROF iXWezO ptn__text">Jacket by <strong>Ralph Lren Purple Label</strong>; shirt by <strong>Grg Armani</strong>; vtage pants om <strong>Raggedy Threads</strong>; vtage boots om <strong>Melet Merntile</strong>. </span><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnCred-ejegDm iUEiRd hCJFDV fNaHcW ptn__cred">Photograph by Mar Sorrenti; styled by Gee Corta.</span></div></figure><p class="paywall">“Oh, <em>nooo,</em>” I shriek. The hunk of clay I have been attemptg to make to a vase slips om my grasp and flgs self dramatilly off the pottery wheel, which ntu to sp madly, splatterg me wh vis brown liquid until the stctor at the Brooklyn stud where we’ve been takg a lson over to gently remd me to take my foot off the pedal.</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-1 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p class="paywall"><em>Tee-hee-hee.</em> I hear a giggle om the next wheel over. Tatum is hunched like a giant over his ty bud vase, his broad shoulrs, ensed a whe long-sleeve T-shirt wh “The Power to Satisfy” wrten across the cht, shakg wh lghter.</p></div></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="43n4vp"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa dEQjuV body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p class="paywall">“It’s so funny, du,” he manag eventually. “I wish there was a vio ponent to this terview, so I uld jt prs Play and see you jt, like, ridg clay. Like you’re jt tryg to hold on to like ’s a bull-ridg petn, and you keep gettg thrown off.” <em>Tee-hee-hee.</em></p><p class="paywall">If this were any other movie star, I’d probably be mortified, but Tatum—whose lgh, a high-pched succsn of actual tee-hee-he—seems so genuely lighted that I end up feelg like I’ve given him a gift.</p><p class="paywall">It helps, also, that he’s not a plete stranger. We first met back 2011, when I terviewed him for <em>GQ.</em> An up-and-g actor whom, gog to , I had tegorized as a mor player of the Young Hollywood era: The hot guy movi like <em>Step Up</em> and <em>She’s the Man,</em> he was starrg a Roman historil drama which his character appeared mcle-bound body armor.</p><div class="CneVioEmbedContaer-jMRUzY idGZxX"><figure class="CneVioEmbedFigure-kCfJjN noFMx e-vio-embed"><div data-ttid="script-ntaer"></div></figure></div><p class="paywall">Twenty-four hours and I don’t know how many tequila shots later, I woke up next to some rocks the sert, wearg a Snuggie and keenly aware, spe my piercg haner, that I had been very wrong about Channg Tatum, and that while he may not have been the bt-known actor Hollywood, he was certaly the most fun. It’s a long story. You should probably google .</p><p class="paywall">I ran to him about a year later New York, jt as he was about to fish <em>Magic Mike,</em> a movie loosely based on the time he spent as a stripper Tampa.</p><p class="paywall">“And I thk shortly after that,” Tatum says, summg up the perd between then and now, “I got really by, and then life kd of fell apart, and then I stopped workg for almost five years.”</p></div></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="lcrpqv"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa dEQjuV body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p class="paywall">That’s the short versn. More specifilly—as you know unls you’ve been asleep next to some rocks the sert for the past 10 years—<em>Magic Mike</em> was an enormo h, a cultural phenomenon, and Tatum beme an A-list movie star, a producer, a mogul, on the level of actors named Brad and Ryan (whom he refers to, cintally, as his “homi”). Then he did somethg that most Hollywood stars would fd unthkable. He jt…stopped.</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-2 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p class="paywall">Now, after a perd of soul-searchg and a lengthy hiat om actg, he’s back, wh at least five movi the pipele, cludg <em>Psy Island</em>—the directorial but of his now girliend, Zoë Kravz—and the third stallment of <em>Magic Mike—Magic Mike’s Last Dance.</em></p><p class="paywall">So, given that our tolerance for tequila isn’t what ed to be, and Tatum, 42, has jt gotten over COVID (which he clared “borg”), we’ve opted for a mellow, age-appropriate erary: bnch and a pottery lson, which <em>some</em> people seem to thk is relaxg.</p><p class="paywall">I thwack a new piece of clay onto my wheel. “You got this, girl,” cheers Tatum. “Ri the clay bull.”</p><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="Channg Tatum looks directly at the mera a portra shot. He's wearg whe llared top unr a dark jacket." class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div><div class="CaptnWrapper-jSZdqE kIXbGQ ptn AssetEmbedCaptn-fNQBPI fmQnYP asset-embed__ptn"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnText-bHjzlu iUEiRd hBkROF iXWezO ptn__text">Jacket by <strong>Balenciaga</strong>; vtage jumpsu om <strong>Stock Vtage</strong>.</span><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnCred-ejegDm iUEiRd hCJFDV fNaHcW ptn__cred">Photograph by Mar Sorrenti; styled by Gee Corta.</span></div></figure><p class="paywall">Moments later, he has produced another small vsel. “Now I know why they put this <em>Ghost,</em>” he says, then smooths out the lip of a piece he not looks rather like a vaga. “This whole procs is very, very sexual.”</p><p class="paywall">Meanwhile, my clay is flappg around all over the place. “<em>Ghost</em> was great,” I mutter as I stggle to get ahold of .</p><p class="paywall">“We actually have the rights,” Tatum says.</p><p class="paywall">“Wa, <em>what</em>?”</p><p class="paywall">“Yeah, we have the rights to <em>Ghost.</em>”</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-3 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p class="paywall">I prs hard on the clay while he tells about how his productn pany, Free Associatn, is tryg to pull together a remake of <em>Ghost,</em> wh him potentially playg the Patrick Swayze role. “But we’re gog to do somethg different,” he says, addg that the origal, like many movi of s day, ntaed some problematic stereotyp. “I thk needs to change a ltle b and have our…”</p></div></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="p313bi"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa dEQjuV body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p class="paywall"><em>Thhhrrmp.</em> Tatum looks up om his vaga as my wheel mak an angry splutterg sound.</p><p class="paywall">“This is the funnit thg I have experienced a really long time,” he proclaims as I wipe clay om my eyebrows aga. “You’re tryg so hard to have a nversatn wh me, and you’re jt gettg your ass beat by a wheel and a piece of clay. It’s <em>so good.</em>” <em>Tee-hee-hee.</em></p><p class="has-dropp paywall"><strong>“I like lghg,”</strong> Tatum told me earlier that morng. “I like fdg the hilarns thgs.” We were seated outsi at a der Williamsburg (where Zoë Kravz liv), which specialized bagels—which was unfortunate, bee Tatum n’t really do rbs. “My face gets really fat really fast,” he explaed. Once, to please his ex-wife, he’d hired a vegan chef who wrapped everythg bread. “I jt got fatter and fatter and fatter,” he said, his hands movg away om his face to dite a head expandg like a para-float balloon. This was also hilar, he add.</p><p class="paywall">Like many kids wh wanrg attentn spans and excs energy, Tatum learned early how to e humor to flect attentn and fe tensn, a strategy that, as he has gotten olr, seems to have morphed to a kd of worldview, an abily to see the silver lg suatns that others might fd unfortable or unpleasant. “I don’t want to get all rny, but I gus that is kd of my pg mechanism life, is to fd the fun.”</p><asi aria-hidn="te" class="PullQuoteEmbedWrapper-sc-EoVjf fQbAzo"><div class="PullQuoteDerativeBorr-sc-iUyOLj UnBFT"></div><div class="PullQuoteEmbedContent-sc-kTcfhx eXdqOX"><p class="paywall">Tatum was disvered to be followg a number of Kravz’s fan acunts on Instagram: “I have no chill.” It was nocent, he swears. “I was jt seeg what she was up to! Also, I didn’t know anyone would know.”</p></div></asi><p class="paywall">“This is gog to be crazy,” he told his iend as they slipped on thongs at Joy, the strip club Tampa where he started dancg at 18, effectively rcg the experience to a funny anecdote as was happeng. This outlook was eful Hollywood, an dtry that n be siar to strip clubs, where one n easily end up a bad suatn.</p><p class="paywall">“The dtry is fairly btal if you have a spark of creativy,” says Reid Carol, who was his early 20s and workg as assistant to the director on the 2008 movie <em>Stop-Loss</em> when he met Tatum. Tatum was playg a soldier, the kd of role that, as a mcular whe man wh a ht of wildns behd the ey, he’d be asked to play many tim over the next few years, cludg <em>Dear John, G.I. Joe, Haywire,</em> and the Roman movie, <em>The Eagle.</em> “You get typest,” says Carol, who beme iends and eventually bs partners wh Tatum. “We pretty quickly realized the only way we uld fd fulfillment the dtry was to create and reta ownership of our own material.”</p><p class="paywall">They formed a productn pany, which they lled 33&Out, wh the goal of workg as hard—and havg as much fun—as they uld until they reached the so-lled J year, at which pot they’d peace out. “Go and live on an island somewhere,” as Tatum told me back 2011.</p><p class="paywall">When Steven Sorbergh, who’d directed Tatum <em>Haywire,</em> exprsed tert directg a movie about Tatum’s past life as a stripper, they jumped at the opportuny. Carol, who’d never sold a feature-film script before, began workg on a story they saw as beg like <em>Boogie Nights</em> or <em>Saturday Night Fever:</em> a darkly edic tale about a young man who enters a world that is superficially sexy but ultimately pretty grim. “Bee that world is not rosy,” Tatum pots out. “Some of the worst people I’ve ever met my entire life were that realm.”</p><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="Channg Tatum star at the mera a portra shot. He's wearg a light blue shirt that his buttoned all the way up..." class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div><div class="CaptnWrapper-jSZdqE kIXbGQ ptn AssetEmbedCaptn-fNQBPI fmQnYP asset-embed__ptn"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnText-bHjzlu iUEiRd hBkROF iXWezO ptn__text">Vtage shirt and p om <strong>Raggedy Threads</strong>.</span><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnCred-ejegDm iUEiRd hCJFDV fNaHcW ptn__cred">Photograph by Mar Sorrenti; styled by Gee Corta.</span></div></figure><p class="paywall">Then aga, a movie about the worst people the world don’t sound like very much fun. “So Chan thought that maybe we uld sort of clean up and make be somethg different,” Carol rells. The end rult—a rom- about a hot male stripper wh a heart of gold dry-humpg his way to his dream of owng his own bs—was a lot more fun.</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-4 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p class="paywall">Sandra Bullock, “like every other woman Ameri,” shed to the theater, where she regnized the guy grdg on all fours—a signature move Tatum lls the Old Fahful—as the same one who had crashed her birthday party a few years before. “The dance floor had never been so happy,” she rells.</p></div></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="kk5wei"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa dEQjuV body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p class="paywall">Needls to say, Tatum didn’t need to crash parti after that. “I would go to the meetgs and all the female executiv would be there, like, ‘What a geic specimen, what a gift,’ ” says Cody Horn, who played Tatum’s love tert the movie and later married Carol.</p><p class="paywall">Horn brgs up somethg I also noticed about Tatum, which is that his prence, ’s weirdly easy to fet he is an ternatnally famo movie star and universally revered sex god whose sual hoodie nceals a set of abs more valuable than the Hope Diamond. “He so rarely rri his movie star–ns around his everyday life, ’s almost surprisg when he do turn to that guy,” says Horn. “And when he do, there is such a magism to him that you n hardly look at him whout fallg on the floor. It’s sanely sexy. You’re kd of like, ‘Exce me, turn that off.’ ”</p><p class="paywall">Tatum’s abily to shift to regular-guy mo also enabled him to succsfully cross genr. In the 2010s, he worked nonstop on a wi range of projects: inic edi like the <em>21 Jump Street</em> reboots; crilly acclaimed dramas like <em>Foxtcher;</em> and big-budget anchis like <em>G.I. Joe.</em> Not to mentn his own <em>Magic Mike,</em> which spawned a 2015 sequel, <em>Magic Mike XXL,</em> a live show Vegas wh versns London and Miami, and a realy show on HBO Max.</p><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="Channg Tatum Balenciaga jacket and pants." class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div><div class="CaptnWrapper-jSZdqE kIXbGQ ptn AssetEmbedCaptn-fNQBPI fmQnYP asset-embed__ptn"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnText-bHjzlu iUEiRd hBkROF iXWezO ptn__text">Jacket and pants by <strong>Balenciaga</strong>; vtage boots om <strong>Melet Merntile</strong>; vtage apron om <strong>Stock Vtage</strong>.</span><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnCred-ejegDm iUEiRd hCJFDV fNaHcW ptn__cred">Photograph by Mar Sorrenti; styled by Gee Corta.</span></div></figure><p class="has-dropp paywall"><strong>Tatum never graduated</strong> om llege, but he turned out to be a very apt bsman. <em>Magic</em> <em>Mike</em> land him on the list of hight-paid actors Hollywood, a place he ntu to occupy, havg recently negotiated a reported $25 ln al wh Amazon to produce and star the spy thriller <em>Red Shirt.</em> But acrdg to Carol, money isn’t Tatum’s ma motivatn. “It’s not like there’s some materialist end to his ambns, like ‘I want to make a billn dollars,’ ” he says. “It’s more like, ‘What would be the most tertg e of my time?’ He’s a genue artist that way.”</p><p class="paywall">Somewhere between beg named the Sexit Man Alive by <em>People</em> and one of the most fluential by <em>Time,</em> Tatum realized he’d stopped havg fun. He was vastated when stud execs pulled the plug on a Marvel movie he and Carol had spent years velopg, based on the <em>X-Men</em> character Gamb. “It got swallowed up to Disney by way of Marvel when they bought Fox, and ultimately I jt thk that the tone of the movie we wanted to make was very far om what they wanted to do—or, you know, maybe they’re wag to see how they do wh or whout ,” says Tatum. “We ll every once a while, but we’ve got to spirually, emotnally, kd of mentally let go.”</p><p class="paywall">But was more than that. Somethg felt off. “I was workg a lot,” he rells. “I had gotten to work wh some of my favore directors. I had checked box that I would never have hoped to dream about. But somethg jt wasn’t que fillg me up. I was sort of kd of jt tryg not to be bad movi, stead of beg good. And I was kd of gog, ‘What’s…’ And really had nothg to do wh my work. It was really about my life.”</p><p class="paywall">Tatum and Jenna Dewan had been together ever sce they met on the 2006 movie <em>Step Up,</em> which, se you missed , was one of those dance movi where the ballera falls love wh the rough-and-tumble street dancer. Their real-life partnership seemed to mirror the plot: Dewan was a betiful, poised former profsnal dancer to wellns and veganism. Tatum was an ex-stripper om Florida who hated vegetabl and wore baseball ps siways well to his 30s.</p><asi aria-hidn="te" class="PullQuoteEmbedWrapper-sc-EoVjf fQbAzo"><div class="PullQuoteDerativeBorr-sc-iUyOLj UnBFT"></div><div class="PullQuoteEmbedContent-sc-kTcfhx eXdqOX"><p class="paywall">Sandra Bullock, his good iend and star, lls him “a betiful evolved goofball who brgs joy wherever he go.”</p></div></asi><p class="paywall">But unlike what you see the movi, two wildly different people nnot always live happily ever after. “We fought for for a really long time, even though we both sort of knew that we had sort of grown apart,” Tatum rells at bnch.</p></div></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="zwdpq"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa dEQjuV body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p class="paywall">“I thk we told ourselv a story when we were young, and we jt kept tellg ourselv that story, no matter how blatantly life was tellg that we were so different. But when you’re actually <em>parents,</em>” he go on, “you really unrstand differenc between the two of you. Bee is screamg at you all day long. How you parent differently, how you look at the world, how you go through the world.”</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-5 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p class="paywall">In the end, try as they might, they uld no longer fd the fun. “In the begng, was super sry and terrifyg,” he says of their ial separatn. “Your life jt turns on s axis. This whole plan that you had lerally jt turns to sand and go through your fgers and you’re jt like, ‘Oh, sh. What now?’ ”</p><p class="paywall">But, on the bright si, Tatum ntu:</p><p class="paywall">“It was probably exactly what I need. I don’t thk I would’ve ever done the work, I thk, on myself the way that I had to do the work on myself to really try to figure out what next. And really, jt started wh my dghter. I jt dropped everythg and jt foced on her. And was tly the bt possible thg that I ever uld have done. Bee the alone time that I have wh jt me and her, we’ve bee bt iends.”</p><p class="paywall">See what I mean? He even mak a <em>divorce</em> sound kd of great.</p><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="Channg Tatum ss posg vtage nim overalls black wboy boots a black wboy hat and a leather jacket. He..." class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div><div class="CaptnWrapper-jSZdqE kIXbGQ ptn AssetEmbedCaptn-fNQBPI fmQnYP asset-embed__ptn"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnText-bHjzlu iUEiRd hBkROF iXWezO ptn__text">Vtage jacket om <strong>Stock Vtage</strong>; vtage overalls and shirt om <strong>Raggedy Threads</strong>.</span><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnCred-ejegDm iUEiRd hCJFDV fNaHcW ptn__cred">Photograph by Mar Sorrenti; styled by Gee Corta.</span></div></figure><p class="paywall">To be clear, he wasn’t jt stg around his feelgs. Tatum rarely stays still, and durg his supposed hiat he managed to acplish more than most people do their entire liv: He pated, he sculpted. (“I like anatomy,” he says. “Not like a Dahmer way, but if you give me a piece of clay, I uld make your hand.”) He got really hard-re to dirt bik and went hikg the mountas of Norway wh the Brish adventurer Bear Grylls. He started a children’s book seri about Sparkella, a tutu-wearg girl wh a fun-lovg dad (the third one out this year), and began work on a romance novel wh the wrer and social mentator Roxane Gay, whom he beiend after she wrote about wantg to “hug every part of him wh my mouth” onle. “She has almost a roughed-out outle of a story that we both love,” he says. “We jt got to fd time to do . She’s the bit, she’s way bier than I am.”</p></div></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="s5pqxj"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa dEQjuV body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p class="paywall">He and Carol also directed <em>Dog,</em> a man-and-ne story spired by the ath of Tatum’s beloved dog Lulu. Although the script, the dog liv: “You don’t want people to be cryg their ey out,” Tatum explas. “Especially nowadays. J. No one wants to see a sad movie.”</p><p class="paywall"><em>Dog,</em> which me out last year, and <em>The Lost Cy,</em> a rom- which he plays a Fab-que mol oppose Sandra Bullock’s jad romance wrer, marked the official end to Tatum’s hiat, although jt as he began to emerge, the world shut down.</p><p class="paywall">“It was a shshow,” says Bullock of the havoc the panmic wrought on the productn, which filmed the Domin Republic. But worked out. “The bety about Channg is, while he is brilliant and savvy and a bsman, that is upled wh the spir and joy and the hibn of, like, a child,” she adds, talkg about how they swam and ro dirt bik on the beach on their days off. “He’s jt like a betiful evolved goofball who brgs joy wherever he go.”</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-6 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p class="paywall">In <em>Project Artemis,</em> the movie he’s currently filmg wh Srlett Johansson Atlanta, Tatum plays a NASA lnch director durg the Apollo program, which one might terpret as an attempt to “transn gracefully to the shirt-on phase” of his reer, as Bullock’s character puts <em>The Lost Cy.</em> But, says Tatum, “I doubt that I’ll be able to keep my cloth on forever.”</p><p class="paywall">Certaly not after dienc take <em>Magic Mike’s Last Dance,</em> for which Tatum got to “the bt shape of my entire life,” he tells me, at which pot I actually have to stop makg eye ntact wh him bee, like, I know. The evince is very much on display the third and fal stallment of the anchise, which begs wh a scene which the tle character dry-humps a character played by Salma Hayek Plt for so long and so many different posns that may e bra hemorrhag women over 40.</p><asi aria-hidn="te" class="PullQuoteEmbedWrapper-sc-EoVjf fQbAzo"><div class="PullQuoteDerativeBorr-sc-iUyOLj UnBFT"></div><div class="PullQuoteEmbedContent-sc-kTcfhx eXdqOX"><p class="paywall">“In bs, I have no real fear of anythg beg stroyed,” says Tatum. “But heart thgs, when to people I love, I have a really hard time.”</p></div></asi><p class="paywall">“Hell, y,” Tatum says when I ask if was awkward to bury his face Mrs. François-Henri Plt’s crotch and rry her around a room wh her legs wrapped around his neck. “I mean, she was one of my first csh. But I do have to say that’s almost the fort zone for me.”</p><p class="paywall">It’s hard to image now, but back 2012 few had expected the primary dience for <em>Magic Mike</em> to be women. Female sire wasn’t somethg popularly acknowledged or talked about until sudnly was everywhere. “We ught the <em>Fifty Shas</em> wave,” says Peter Kiernan, Tatum’s former manager and a partner his productn pany, which relnched as Free Associatn after Tatum & Co. cid might be possible to have fun the bs past the ripe old age of 33 after all.</p><p class="paywall">Still, they didn’t have this dience top of md when they ma <em>Magic Mike XXL.</em> As the first movie, the actn centers on the male characters, somethg that as time went on and the world changed, Tatum began to have misgivgs about. “Really, the first two movi are feathered-fish sort of movi, my opn,” he says now. “They’re movi about men ma for women, or people that like men, but none of them had really strong female characters. So felt like we sort of hoodwked people on some level. Like we cheated the .”</p></div></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="xg4cd7"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa dEQjuV body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p class="paywall">Tatum grew up around strong women, he pots out. He is very close to his mother and sister. But he ppots his recent femist awakeng to the birth of his dghter. “Only havg a dghter did start to really sre me how sry the world is for women,” he tells me. “You n nceive when you love someone that is a girl, but don’t land the same way as havg a ty female human the world that is so vulnerable and lookg at the world through rose-lored glass.”</p><div class="CneVioEmbedContaer-jMRUzY idGZxX"><figure class="CneVioEmbedFigure-kCfJjN noFMx e-vio-embed"><div data-ttid="script-ntaer"></div></figure></div><p class="paywall">Hearg the revelatns of the newly woke n be as irratg as hearg someone talk about their dreams, but Tatum across as genue.</p><p class="paywall">“For whatever reason, he is timately aware of his privilege,” Gay told me an email. “He don’t apologize for , which is, ankly, rehg. Like, you’re an absurdly attractive famo wealthy whe man. Please don’t pretend that isn’t great. But he treats people well,” she add, notg that on their “fun and sexy” romance-novel project, Tatum went out of his way to ensure they were paid equally.</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-7 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p class="paywall">“To be clear, that is the right thg to do,” Gay poted out. “And we shouldn’t give medals to people for dog the right thg, but at the same time, most people simply don’t do the right thg and is notable when happens.”</p><p class="paywall">Notably, <em>Magic Mike’s Last Dance</em> has a female lead the form of Hayek Plt, who plays Maxandra Mendoza, a wealthy divorcée who gets her groove back by reimagg a worn-out Wt End show as a male revue for the thkg woman. “I thk we wanted that specifilly bee I feel some sort of more rponsibily that the other movi weren’t about women, they were about men,” Tatum says. “And we tried to Trojan-horse some real feel-good, I don’t want to say woman empowerment, self-trospectn stuff there,” he adds, although this might not be que the right metaphor, sce the theme is pretty ont and center.</p></div></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="ufqzj"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa dEQjuV body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p class="paywall">“Wouldn’t be chvistic to have a show about women empowerment that don’t have a female character?” a character clar at some pot.</p><p class="paywall">Like, the horse is <em>right there.</em></p><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="Channg Tatum stands agast a wall and star at the mera. He is wearg a buttonup shirt." class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div><div class="CaptnWrapper-jSZdqE kIXbGQ ptn AssetEmbedCaptn-fNQBPI fmQnYP asset-embed__ptn"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnText-bHjzlu iUEiRd hBkROF iXWezO ptn__text">Shirt by <strong>Loro Piana</strong>.</span><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnCred-ejegDm iUEiRd hCJFDV fNaHcW ptn__cred">Photograph by Mar Sorrenti; styled by Gee Corta.</span></div></figure><p class="paywall">If anythg is beg smuggled , might be the plot, which was spired by the creatn of <em>Magic Mike Live</em> and, like the movi, is semi-tobgraphil:</p><p class="paywall">“It begs wh Mike, at 40, basilly beg like, ‘All right, I did the whole takg myself serly thg, I started a pany that ultimately I built up this great way, this way that I always dreamed of,’ ” Tatum says. “ ‘But still didn’t fulfill me. It wasn’t the thg I thought that was gog to make me whole, or make me have self-rpect or worth or whatever.’ And then this opportuny through that a way brgs him back to the thg that he started as.” Although ’s unlikely that anyone will notice, given the aforementned dry-humpg scene.</p><p class="has-dropp paywall"><strong>“I don’t know</strong> if I’m ever gog to get married aga,” says Tatum, who suggts we get a foot massage after our pottery lson. There’s a place nearby, one he’s been gog to sce he started spendg more time New York wh Kravz. Tatum is, he adms, a serial monogamist. After he and his wife separated, he dated the sger Jsie J on and off for nearly two years.</p><p class="paywall">He first met Kravz after readg an early draft of <em>Psy Island,</em> which she and her wrer had been spired to wre after readg stori about powerful men takg advantage of women. She had him md for the island’s owner, a sister tech billnaire far removed om the affable, fun-lovg typ he ually plays. “I thought was super punk rock,” Tatum rells. “She had passn there, and she had a pot of view that was really specific to who she was and what her experience was. But I wasn’t sure was clear yet, what wanted to be.” They agreed to keep talkg. “Lerally, after that meetg, my life went how did and we lost touch,” he says. “Then, cut to two and a half years later, they had a new draft, and was great. I was like, ‘Wow. You are really sayg somethg,’ ” he go on. “That’s the kd of person you want to create wh. That really has this perspective they’re nstantly diggg for.”</p><p class="paywall">Tatum’s pany is also helpg to produce the film, which Kravz directed. “Weirdly, was fortable,” he says, addg that work, like plantg his face a woman’s lap, is also his fort zone.</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-8 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p class="paywall">“Relatnships are hard for me,” Tatum says, unfurlg his socks. “Even though I am a b of a monogamist. In bs, I have no real fear of anythg beg stroyed. But heart thgs, when to people I love, I have a really hard time. I end up tryg too hard, you know?”</p><p class="paywall">In other words, as the ter observed after Tatum was disvered to be followg a number of Kravz’s fan acunts on Instagram: “I have no chill.” It was nocent, he swears. “I was jt seeg what she was up to! Also, I didn’t know anyone would <em>know.</em>”</p></div></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="3clppp"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa dEQjuV body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p class="paywall">But the days he’s tryg to have more chill general. “So I n actually experience the moments, stead of jt tryg to change or somethg,” he says. “Or beg aaid that ’s not gog to work out how I wanted or somethg.”</p><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="Channg Tatum ss on a black chair and star at the mera. His hands are his lap and he is wearg an apron over..." class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div><div class="CaptnWrapper-jSZdqE kIXbGQ ptn AssetEmbedCaptn-fNQBPI fmQnYP asset-embed__ptn"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnText-bHjzlu iUEiRd hBkROF iXWezO ptn__text">Vtage jacket and shirt om <strong>Stock Vtage</strong>; vtage pants and apron om <strong>Melet Merntile</strong>. </span><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnCred-ejegDm iUEiRd hCJFDV fNaHcW ptn__cred">Photograph by Mar Sorrenti; styled by Gee Corta.</span></div></figure><p class="paywall">“You know when thgs are kd of jt workg, you don’t want to touch ? Like pottery,” he adds. “Like pottery. If I keep prsg on , ’s gog to buck me off. And you’re jt like, ‘Ooh. Maybe I should stop.’”</p><p class="paywall">He nsirs. “I thk life—”</p><p class="paywall">“<em>Shhh.</em>” The guy massagg Tatum’s feet hh him. Someone behd a screen is gettg a full-body massage, and he don’t want to terpt their zen wh our chatter.</p><p class="paywall">“<em>This is hilar,</em>” Tatum whispers.</p><p class="has-dropp paywall"><strong>Afterward, Tatum offers</strong> to walk me to the subway so he n fish his thought. “I thk life has a really fun way to give you exactly what you need when you need ,” he says. “Not meang gifts, or anythg like that. But what you need to learn.”</p><p class="paywall">Early on his separatn, he says, when thgs were still really raw and paful, Reid Carol told him about a profsor of parative relign who says that the bt wisdom om people who have lost “two worlds.” “Meang like experienc, two kd of life-aths where everythg chang,” Tatum explas.</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-9 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p class="paywall">“Everythg that you thought was jt all of a sudn a blk of an eye, you lose a child or you, yeah, get a divorce, your life falls apart. You know? Where your world as you know pletely jt evaporat ont of your face forever. So he’s sayg wisdom only om people who have really had a life and experienced the spectm of life, and all the peaks and the valleys, if you will. And Reid’s like, ‘So you’re halfway there, champ.’ ”</p><p class="paywall">I was like, “All right. 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siz="100vw"/><source media="(m-width: 768px)" srcSet="" siz="100vw"/><img alt="Channg Tatum Is Both Lover and Daddy at Taylor Swift Show" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src="></noscript></picture></div></div></span></a></div><div class="SummaryItemContent-eiDYMl XMZX summary-em__ntent"><div class="RubricWrapper-dKmCNX hXRWeY bric bric--disvery SummaryItemRubric-dguGKN lapGFj summary-em__bric"><span class="RubricName-fVtemz cLxcNi">Celebry</span></div><a class="SummaryItemHedLk-civM cxlTHI summary-em-trackg__hed-lk summary-em__hed-lk" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-hed-1" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" href=" target="_self"><div data-ttid="ClampWrapper" class="ClampWrapper-kZxfkB hTTNGO clamp SummaryItemHedBase-hiFYpQ khUTXM summary-em__hed"><div class="ClampContent-hilPkr jVhSBH"><div class="SummaryItemHedTag-TWblf gxaOcP" data-ttid="SummaryItemHed">Channg Tatum Is Both Lover and Daddy at Taylor Swift Show</div></div></div></a><div class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ SummaryItemDek-CRfsi iUEiRd ijSOpT jDyfzW summary-em__k">Daddy, ed.</div><div class="SummaryItemByleWrapper-boCfbi cuRXdL summary-em__byle-date-in"><div class="SummaryItemBaseByle-fFbXkY gRtaxp summary-em__byle"><div class="summary-em__byle__ntent"><div data-ttid="BylWrapper" class="BylWrapper-KIudk irTIfE byl"><p class="ByleWrapper-jWHrLH iNSiTG byle byl__byle" data-ttid="ByleWrapper" emProp="thor" emType="><span emProp="name" class="ByleNamWrapper-jbHncj fuDQVo"><span data-ttid="ByleName" class="ByleName-kwmrLn cYaBaU byle__name"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BylePreamble-iJolpQ iUEiRd bIbWCO gnILss byle__preamble">By </span>Kase Wickman</span></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="SummaryItemWrapper-iwvBff jCBznZ summary-em summary-em--has-le summary-em--ARTICLE summary-em--no-in summary-em--text-align-left summary-em--layout-placement-text-below 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siz="100vw"/><img alt="Venice Film Ftival Unveils Strong Lp Dpe Strike" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src="></noscript></picture></div></div></span></a></div><div class="SummaryItemContent-eiDYMl XMZX summary-em__ntent"><div class="RubricWrapper-dKmCNX hXRWeY bric bric--disvery SummaryItemRubric-dguGKN lapGFj summary-em__bric"><span class="RubricName-fVtemz cLxcNi">Award Season</span></div><a class="SummaryItemHedLk-civM cxlTHI summary-em-trackg__hed-lk summary-em__hed-lk" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-hed-2" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" href=" target="_self"><div data-ttid="ClampWrapper" class="ClampWrapper-kZxfkB hTTNGO clamp SummaryItemHedBase-hiFYpQ khUTXM summary-em__hed"><div class="ClampContent-hilPkr jVhSBH"><div class="SummaryItemHedTag-TWblf gxaOcP" data-ttid="SummaryItemHed">Venice Film Ftival Unveils Strong Lp Dpe Strike</div></div></div></a><div class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ SummaryItemDek-CRfsi iUEiRd ijSOpT jDyfzW summary-em__k">New films om Bradley Cooper, David Fcher, Sofia Coppola, and Ava DuVernay will have their world premier, even as qutns rema about whether their stars n attend.</div><div class="SummaryItemByleWrapper-boCfbi cuRXdL summary-em__byle-date-in"><div class="SummaryItemBaseByle-fFbXkY gRtaxp summary-em__byle"><div class="summary-em__byle__ntent"><div data-ttid="BylWrapper" class="BylWrapper-KIudk irTIfE byl"><p class="ByleWrapper-jWHrLH iNSiTG byle byl__byle" data-ttid="ByleWrapper" emProp="thor" emType="><span emProp="name" class="ByleNamWrapper-jbHncj fuDQVo"><span data-ttid="ByleName" class="ByleName-kwmrLn cYaBaU byle__name"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BylePreamble-iJolpQ iUEiRd bIbWCO gnILss byle__preamble">By </span>Rebec Ford</span></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="SummaryItemWrapper-iwvBff jCBznZ summary-em summary-em--has-le summary-em--ARTICLE summary-em--no-in summary-em--text-align-left summary-em--layout-placement-text-below summary-em--layout-posn-image-left summary-em--layout-proportns-50-50 summary-em--si-by-si-align-center summary-em--si-by-si-image-right-mobile-false summary-em--standard SummaryCollectnGridSummaryItem-WColm ciqncl" role="button" tabx="0"><div class="SummaryItemAssetContaer-gwhFFH VOyg summary-em__asset-ntaer"><a class="SummaryItemImageLk-dshqxb cPpCwE summary-em__image-lk summary-em-trackg__image-lk" href=" aria-hidn="te" tabx="-1" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-image-3" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" target="_self"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset SummaryItemRponsiveAsset-hjGIGg bDvSkO summary-em__image"><div data-tt="aspect-rat-ntaer" class="AspectRatContaer-bJHpJz hlQxkn"><div class="aspect-rat--overlay-ntaer"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa SummaryItemRponsiveAsset-hjGIGg bDvSkO summary-em__image rponsive-image"><noscript><source media="(max-width: 767px)" srcSet="" siz="100vw"/><source media="(m-width: 768px)" srcSet="" siz="100vw"/><img alt="Barbie 2: What Might We See a Sequel?" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src="></noscript></picture></div></div></span></a></div><div class="SummaryItemContent-eiDYMl XMZX summary-em__ntent"><div class="RubricWrapper-dKmCNX hXRWeY bric bric--disvery SummaryItemRubric-dguGKN lapGFj summary-em__bric"><span class="RubricName-fVtemz cLxcNi">Hollywood</span></div><a class="SummaryItemHedLk-civM cxlTHI summary-em-trackg__hed-lk summary-em__hed-lk" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-hed-3" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" href=" target="_self"><div data-ttid="ClampWrapper" class="ClampWrapper-kZxfkB hTTNGO clamp SummaryItemHedBase-hiFYpQ khUTXM summary-em__hed"><div class="ClampContent-hilPkr jVhSBH"><div class="SummaryItemHedTag-TWblf gxaOcP" data-ttid="SummaryItemHed"><em>Barbie</em> <em>2:</em> What Might We See a Sequel?</div></div></div></a><div class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ SummaryItemDek-CRfsi iUEiRd ijSOpT jDyfzW summary-em__k">A $1 billn box office hl mak a return trip to Barbie Land very likely. From Sylvter Stallone directg to Cillian Murphy starrg, here are all the wild ias that have been floated about a potential sequel.</div><div class="SummaryItemByleWrapper-boCfbi cuRXdL summary-em__byle-date-in"><div class="SummaryItemBaseByle-fFbXkY gRtaxp summary-em__byle"><div class="summary-em__byle__ntent"><div data-ttid="BylWrapper" class="BylWrapper-KIudk irTIfE byl"><p class="ByleWrapper-jWHrLH iNSiTG byle byl__byle" data-ttid="ByleWrapper" emProp="thor" emType="><span emProp="name" class="ByleNamWrapper-jbHncj fuDQVo"><span data-ttid="ByleName" class="ByleName-kwmrLn cYaBaU byle__name"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BylePreamble-iJolpQ iUEiRd bIbWCO gnILss byle__preamble">By </span>Savannah Walsh</span></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ SummaryCollectnGridSummaryItem-WColm ciqncl ad ad--read-more"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--read-more" data-no-id="msu0yh"></div></div><div class="SummaryItemWrapper-iwvBff jCBznZ summary-em summary-em--has-le summary-em--ARTICLE summary-em--no-in summary-em--text-align-left summary-em--layout-placement-text-below summary-em--layout-posn-image-left summary-em--layout-proportns-50-50 summary-em--si-by-si-align-center summary-em--si-by-si-image-right-mobile-false summary-em--standard SummaryCollectnGridSummaryItem-WColm ciqncl" role="button" tabx="0"><div class="SummaryItemAssetContaer-gwhFFH VOyg summary-em__asset-ntaer"><a class="SummaryItemImageLk-dshqxb cPpCwE summary-em__image-lk summary-em-trackg__image-lk" href=" aria-hidn="te" tabx="-1" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-image-4" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" target="_self"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset SummaryItemRponsiveAsset-hjGIGg bDvSkO summary-em__image"><div data-tt="aspect-rat-ntaer" class="AspectRatContaer-bJHpJz hlQxkn"><div class="aspect-rat--overlay-ntaer"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa SummaryItemRponsiveAsset-hjGIGg bDvSkO summary-em__image rponsive-image"><noscript><source media="(max-width: 767px)" srcSet="" siz="100vw"/><source media="(m-width: 768px)" srcSet="" siz="100vw"/><img alt="Oppenheimer Retold: Manhattan Creators Reveal Secrets of the Atom Bomb Seri" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src="></noscript></picture></div></div></span></a></div><div class="SummaryItemContent-eiDYMl XMZX summary-em__ntent"><div class="RubricWrapper-dKmCNX hXRWeY bric bric--disvery SummaryItemRubric-dguGKN lapGFj summary-em__bric"><span class="RubricName-fVtemz cLxcNi">Televisn</span></div><a class="SummaryItemHedLk-civM cxlTHI summary-em-trackg__hed-lk summary-em__hed-lk" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-hed-4" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" href=" target="_self"><div data-ttid="ClampWrapper" class="ClampWrapper-kZxfkB hTTNGO clamp SummaryItemHedBase-hiFYpQ khUTXM summary-em__hed"><div class="ClampContent-hilPkr jVhSBH"><div class="SummaryItemHedTag-TWblf gxaOcP" data-ttid="SummaryItemHed"><em>Oppenheimer</em> Retold: <em>Manhattan</em> Creators Reveal Secrets of the Atom Bomb Seri</div></div></div></a><div class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ SummaryItemDek-CRfsi iUEiRd ijSOpT jDyfzW summary-em__k">Image Beck or David Bowie as J. Robert Oppenheimer—and other tal om the brilliant 2014 show that end too soon.</div><div class="SummaryItemByleWrapper-boCfbi cuRXdL summary-em__byle-date-in"><div class="SummaryItemBaseByle-fFbXkY gRtaxp summary-em__byle"><div class="summary-em__byle__ntent"><div data-ttid="BylWrapper" class="BylWrapper-KIudk irTIfE byl"><p class="ByleWrapper-jWHrLH iNSiTG byle byl__byle" data-ttid="ByleWrapper" emProp="thor" emType="><span emProp="name" class="ByleNamWrapper-jbHncj fuDQVo"><span data-ttid="ByleName" class="ByleName-kwmrLn cYaBaU byle__name"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BylePreamble-iJolpQ iUEiRd bIbWCO gnILss byle__preamble">By </span>Anthony Breznin</span></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="SummaryItemWrapper-iwvBff jCBznZ summary-em summary-em--has-le summary-em--ARTICLE summary-em--no-in summary-em--text-align-left summary-em--layout-placement-text-below summary-em--layout-posn-image-left summary-em--layout-proportns-50-50 summary-em--si-by-si-align-center summary-em--si-by-si-image-right-mobile-false summary-em--standard SummaryCollectnGridSummaryItem-WColm ciqncl" role="button" tabx="0"><div class="SummaryItemAssetContaer-gwhFFH VOyg summary-em__asset-ntaer"><a class="SummaryItemImageLk-dshqxb cPpCwE summary-em__image-lk summary-em-trackg__image-lk" href=" aria-hidn="te" tabx="-1" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-image-5" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" target="_self"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset SummaryItemRponsiveAsset-hjGIGg bDvSkO summary-em__image"><div data-tt="aspect-rat-ntaer" class="AspectRatContaer-bJHpJz hlQxkn"><div class="aspect-rat--overlay-ntaer"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa SummaryItemRponsiveAsset-hjGIGg bDvSkO summary-em__image rponsive-image"><noscript><source media="(max-width: 767px)" srcSet="" siz="100vw"/><source media="(m-width: 768px)" srcSet="" siz="100vw"/><img alt="Donald Tmp's Will-He-or-Won't-He Debate Drama Is the Most Tmp Thg to Do" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src="></noscript></picture></div></div></span></a></div><div class="SummaryItemContent-eiDYMl XMZX summary-em__ntent"><div class="RubricWrapper-dKmCNX hXRWeY bric bric--disvery SummaryItemRubric-dguGKN lapGFj summary-em__bric"><span class="RubricName-fVtemz cLxcNi">Polics</span></div><a class="SummaryItemHedLk-civM cxlTHI summary-em-trackg__hed-lk summary-em__hed-lk" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-hed-5" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" href=" target="_self"><div data-ttid="ClampWrapper" class="ClampWrapper-kZxfkB hTTNGO clamp SummaryItemHedBase-hiFYpQ khUTXM summary-em__hed"><div class="ClampContent-hilPkr jVhSBH"><div class="SummaryItemHedTag-TWblf gxaOcP" data-ttid="SummaryItemHed">Donald Tmp's Will-He-or-Won't-He Debate Drama Is the Most Tmp Thg to Do</div></div></div></a><div class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ SummaryItemDek-CRfsi iUEiRd ijSOpT jDyfzW summary-em__k">Dpe on-air pleas om Fox News anchors and viss om RNC officials, the former print remas nonmtal about the work's bate next month. Meanwhile, some say he might “unterprogram” the event wh a segment of his own.</div><div class="SummaryItemByleWrapper-boCfbi cuRXdL summary-em__byle-date-in"><div class="SummaryItemBaseByle-fFbXkY gRtaxp summary-em__byle"><div class="summary-em__byle__ntent"><div data-ttid="BylWrapper" class="BylWrapper-KIudk irTIfE byl"><p class="ByleWrapper-jWHrLH iNSiTG byle byl__byle" data-ttid="ByleWrapper" emProp="thor" emType="><span emProp="name" class="ByleNamWrapper-jbHncj fuDQVo"><span data-ttid="ByleName" class="ByleName-kwmrLn cYaBaU byle__name"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BylePreamble-iJolpQ iUEiRd bIbWCO gnILss byle__preamble">By </span>Charlotte Kle</span></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="SummaryItemWrapper-iwvBff jCBznZ summary-em summary-em--has-le summary-em--ARTICLE summary-em--no-in summary-em--text-align-left summary-em--layout-placement-text-below summary-em--layout-posn-image-left summary-em--layout-proportns-50-50 summary-em--si-by-si-align-center summary-em--si-by-si-image-right-mobile-false summary-em--standard SummaryCollectnGridSummaryItem-WColm ciqncl" role="button" tabx="0"><div class="SummaryItemAssetContaer-gwhFFH VOyg summary-em__asset-ntaer"><a class="SummaryItemImageLk-dshqxb cPpCwE summary-em__image-lk summary-em-trackg__image-lk" href=" aria-hidn="te" tabx="-1" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-image-6" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" target="_self"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset SummaryItemRponsiveAsset-hjGIGg bDvSkO summary-em__image"><div data-tt="aspect-rat-ntaer" class="AspectRatContaer-bJHpJz hlQxkn"><div class="aspect-rat--overlay-ntaer"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa SummaryItemRponsiveAsset-hjGIGg bDvSkO summary-em__image rponsive-image"><noscript><source media="(max-width: 767px)" srcSet="" siz="100vw"/><source media="(m-width: 768px)" srcSet="" siz="100vw"/><img alt="Love, Liberty, and the Pursu of Polyamory: A Look Unr the Covers of Nonmonogamy and Its Burgeong Civil Rights Battle" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src="></noscript></picture></div></div></span></a></div><div class="SummaryItemContent-eiDYMl XMZX summary-em__ntent"><div class="RubricWrapper-dKmCNX hXRWeY bric bric--disvery SummaryItemRubric-dguGKN lapGFj summary-em__bric"><span class="RubricName-fVtemz cLxcNi">Style</span></div><a class="SummaryItemHedLk-civM cxlTHI summary-em-trackg__hed-lk summary-em__hed-lk" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-hed-6" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" href=" target="_self"><div data-ttid="ClampWrapper" class="ClampWrapper-kZxfkB hTTNGO clamp SummaryItemHedBase-hiFYpQ khUTXM summary-em__hed"><div class="ClampContent-hilPkr jVhSBH"><div class="SummaryItemHedTag-TWblf gxaOcP" data-ttid="SummaryItemHed">Love, Liberty, and the Pursu of Polyamory: A Look Unr the Covers of Nonmonogamy and Its Burgeong Civil Rights Battle</div></div></div></a><div class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ SummaryItemDek-CRfsi iUEiRd ijSOpT jDyfzW summary-em__k">The most pervasive misnceptn that thriv this void is that polyamory is jt about sex, but for many polyamoro dividuals, ’s about ep nnectn, mted partnerships, reliable fay, and supportive muny—thgs that everyone serv to pursue ee of discrimatn.</div><div class="SummaryItemByleWrapper-boCfbi cuRXdL summary-em__byle-date-in"><div class="SummaryItemBaseByle-fFbXkY gRtaxp summary-em__byle"><div class="summary-em__byle__ntent"><div data-ttid="BylWrapper" class="BylWrapper-KIudk irTIfE byl"><p class="ByleWrapper-jWHrLH iNSiTG byle byl__byle" data-ttid="ByleWrapper" emProp="thor" emType="><span emProp="name" class="ByleNamWrapper-jbHncj fuDQVo"><span data-ttid="ByleName" class="ByleName-kwmrLn cYaBaU byle__name"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BylePreamble-iJolpQ iUEiRd bIbWCO gnILss byle__preamble">By </span>Carole Rose 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Channg Tatum Has A Lot To Say To Roxane Gay About 'Magic Mike'

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'PRO-FEMISM' CHANNG TATUM WANTS TO TALK TO ROXANE GAY ABOUT MAGIC MIKE

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ByRoxane Gay on May 6, 2015 The Butter. ByRoxane Gay. If we uld be a fly on the wall for any nversatn, would be the one which Channg Tatum and Roxane Gay talk "Magic Mike, " femism and okg.

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CHANNG TATUM IS BACK FOR MAGIC MIKE’S LAST DANCEAND READY TO TALK ABOUT LIFE, LOVE, AND LEARNG TO BE A FEMIST.BY JSI PRSLERPHOTOGRAPHY BY MAR SORRENTISTYLED BY GEE CORTAJANUARY 17, 2023CHANNG TATUM, PHOTOGRAPHED BROOKLYN, NOVEMBER 9, 2022. HAT BY STETSON; VTAGE TANK TOP OM STOCK VTAGE.PHOTOGRAPH BY MARIO SORRENTI; STYLED BY GEORGE CORTINA.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVE“I’LL GO SLOW,” PROMIS CHANNG TATUM. HE LOOKS DOWN, HIS CHISELED BROW FURROWED NCERN. “HOW’S THAT?” HE ASKS. “TOO SLOW?”AS AN ATHLETE AND A DANCER, TATUM IS ED TO NTORTG HIS BODY TO EXOTIC POSNS, AND DON’T TAKE LONG FOR HIM TO FD HIS RHYTHM.“OH, YEAH,” HE SAYS. HIS THIGHS ARE TT. HIS MASSIVE HANDS ARE MA FOR STUFF LIKE THIS. “THAT’S WHAT I’M TALKG ABOUT. YEAH, YEAH, YEAH.”I FD MYSELF STARTG TO LOSE NTROL. “OH, GOD,” I SAY. “OH, SH.”“OH, YEAH!” TATUM ANNOUNC TRIUMPHANTLY. “WE’RE MAKG A BABY!”JACKET BY RALPH LREN PURPLE LABEL; SHIRT BY GRG ARMANI; VTAGE PANTS OM RAGGEDY THREADS; VTAGE BOOTS OM MELET MERNTILE. PHOTOGRAPH BY MAR SORRENTI; STYLED BY GEE CORTA.“OH, NOOO,” I SHRIEK. THE HUNK OF CLAY I HAVE BEEN ATTEMPTG TO MAKE TO A VASE SLIPS OM MY GRASP AND FLGS SELF DRAMATILLY OFF THE POTTERY WHEEL, WHICH NTU TO SP MADLY, SPLATTERG ME WH VIS BROWN LIQUID UNTIL THE STCTOR AT THE BROOKLYN STUD WHERE WE’VE BEEN TAKG A LSON OVER TO GENTLY REMD ME TO TAKE MY FOOT OFF THE PEDAL.TEE-HEE-HEE. I HEAR A GIGGLE OM THE NEXT WHEEL OVER. TATUM IS HUNCHED LIKE A GIANT OVER HIS TY BUD VASE, HIS BROAD SHOULRS, ENSED A WHE LONG-SLEEVE T-SHIRT WH “THE POWER TO SATISFY” WRTEN ACROSS THE CHT, SHAKG WH LGHTER.“IT’S SO FUNNY, DU,” HE MANAG EVENTUALLY. “I WISH THERE WAS A VIO PONENT TO THIS TERVIEW, SO I ULD JT PRS PLAY AND SEE YOU JT, LIKE, RIDG CLAY. LIKE YOU’RE JT TRYG TO HOLD ON TO LIKE ’S A BULL-RIDG PETN, AND YOU KEEP GETTG THROWN OFF.” TEE-HEE-HEE.IF THIS WERE ANY OTHER MOVIE STAR, I’D PROBABLY BE MORTIFIED, BUT TATUM—WHOSE LGH, A HIGH-PCHED SUCCSN OF ACTUAL TEE-HEE-HE—SEEMS SO GENUELY LIGHTED THAT I END UP FEELG LIKE I’VE GIVEN HIM A GIFT.IT HELPS, ALSO, THAT HE’S NOT A PLETE STRANGER. WE FIRST MET BACK 2011, WHEN I TERVIEWED HIM FOR GQ. AN UP-AND-G ACTOR WHOM, GOG TO , I HAD TEGORIZED AS A MOR PLAYER OF THE YOUNG HOLLYWOOD ERA: THE HOT GUY MOVI LIKE STEP UP AND SHE’S THE MAN, HE WAS STARRG A ROMAN HISTORIL DRAMA WHICH HIS CHARACTER APPEARED MCLE-BOUND BODY ARMOR.TWENTY-FOUR HOURS AND I DON’T KNOW HOW MANY TEQUILA SHOTS LATER, I WOKE UP NEXT TO SOME ROCKS THE SERT, WEARG A SNUGGIE AND KEENLY AWARE, SPE MY PIERCG HANER, THAT I HAD BEEN VERY WRONG ABOUT CHANNG TATUM, AND THAT WHILE HE MAY NOT HAVE BEEN THE BT-KNOWN ACTOR HOLLYWOOD, HE WAS CERTALY THE MOST FUN. IT’S A LONG STORY. YOU SHOULD PROBABLY GOOGLE .I RAN TO HIM ABOUT A YEAR LATER NEW YORK, JT AS HE WAS ABOUT TO FISH MAGIC MIKE, A MOVIE LOOSELY BASED ON THE TIME HE SPENT AS A STRIPPER TAMPA.“AND I THK SHORTLY AFTER THAT,” TATUM SAYS, SUMMG UP THE PERD BETWEEN THEN AND NOW, “I GOT REALLY BY, AND THEN LIFE KD OF FELL APART, AND THEN I STOPPED WORKG FOR ALMOST FIVE YEARS.”THAT’S THE SHORT VERSN. MORE SPECIFILLY—AS YOU KNOW UNLS YOU’VE BEEN ASLEEP NEXT TO SOME ROCKS THE SERT FOR THE PAST 10 YEARS—MAGIC MIKE WAS AN ENORMO H, A CULTURAL PHENOMENON, AND TATUM BEME AN A-LIST MOVIE STAR, A PRODUCER, A MOGUL, ON THE LEVEL OF ACTORS NAMED BRAD AND RYAN (WHOM HE REFERS TO, CINTALLY, AS HIS “HOMI”). THEN HE DID SOMETHG THAT MOST HOLLYWOOD STARS WOULD FD UNTHKABLE. HE JT…STOPPED.NOW, AFTER A PERD OF SOUL-SEARCHG AND A LENGTHY HIAT OM ACTG, HE’S BACK, WH AT LEAST FIVE MOVI THE PIPELE, CLUDG PSY ISLAND—THE DIRECTORIAL BUT OF HIS NOW GIRLIEND, ZOë KRAVZ—AND THE THIRD STALLMENT OF MAGIC MIKE—MAGIC MIKE’S LAST DANCE.SO, GIVEN THAT OUR TOLERANCE FOR TEQUILA ISN’T WHAT ED TO BE, AND TATUM, 42, HAS JT GOTTEN OVER COVID (WHICH HE CLARED “BORG”), WE’VE OPTED FOR A MELLOW, AGE-APPROPRIATE ERARY: BNCH AND A POTTERY LSON, WHICH SOME PEOPLE SEEM TO THK IS RELAXG.I THWACK A NEW PIECE OF CLAY ONTO MY WHEEL. “YOU GOT THIS, GIRL,” CHEERS TATUM. “RI THE CLAY BULL.”JACKET BY BALENCIAGA; VTAGE JUMPSU OM STOCK VTAGE.PHOTOGRAPH BY MAR SORRENTI; STYLED BY GEE CORTA.MOMENTS LATER, HE HAS PRODUCED ANOTHER SMALL VSEL. “NOW I KNOW WHY THEY PUT THIS GHOST,” HE SAYS, THEN SMOOTHS OUT THE LIP OF A PIECE HE NOT LOOKS RATHER LIKE A VAGA. “THIS WHOLE PROCS IS VERY, VERY SEXUAL.”MEANWHILE, MY CLAY IS FLAPPG AROUND ALL OVER THE PLACE. “GHOST WAS GREAT,” I MUTTER AS I STGGLE TO GET AHOLD OF .“WE ACTUALLY HAVE THE RIGHTS,” TATUM SAYS.“WA, WHAT?”“YEAH, WE HAVE THE RIGHTS TO GHOST.”I PRS HARD ON THE CLAY WHILE HE TELLS ABOUT HOW HIS PRODUCTN PANY, FREE ASSOCIATN, IS TRYG TO PULL TOGETHER A REMAKE OF GHOST, WH HIM POTENTIALLY PLAYG THE PATRICK SWAYZE ROLE. “BUT WE’RE GOG TO DO SOMETHG DIFFERENT,” HE SAYS, ADDG THAT THE ORIGAL, LIKE MANY MOVI OF S DAY, NTAED SOME PROBLEMATIC STEREOTYP. “I THK NEEDS TO CHANGE A LTLE B AND HAVE OUR…”THHHRRMP. TATUM LOOKS UP OM HIS VAGA AS MY WHEEL MAK AN ANGRY SPLUTTERG SOUND.“THIS IS THE FUNNIT THG I HAVE EXPERIENCED A REALLY LONG TIME,” HE PROCLAIMS AS I WIPE CLAY OM MY EYEBROWS AGA. “YOU’RE TRYG SO HARD TO HAVE A NVERSATN WH ME, AND YOU’RE JT GETTG YOUR ASS BEAT BY A WHEEL AND A PIECE OF CLAY. IT’S SO GOOD.” TEE-HEE-HEE.“I LIKE LGHG,” TATUM TOLD ME EARLIER THAT MORNG. “I LIKE FDG THE HILARNS THGS.” WE WERE SEATED OUTSI AT A DER WILLIAMSBURG (WHERE ZOë KRAVZ LIV), WHICH SPECIALIZED BAGELS—WHICH WAS UNFORTUNATE, BEE TATUM N’T REALLY DO RBS. “MY FACE GETS REALLY FAT REALLY FAST,” HE EXPLAED. ONCE, TO PLEASE HIS EX-WIFE, HE’D HIRED A VEGAN CHEF WHO WRAPPED EVERYTHG BREAD. “I JT GOT FATTER AND FATTER AND FATTER,” HE SAID, HIS HANDS MOVG AWAY OM HIS FACE TO DITE A HEAD EXPANDG LIKE A PARA-FLOAT BALLOON. THIS WAS ALSO HILAR, HE ADD.LIKE MANY KIDS WH WANRG ATTENTN SPANS AND EXCS ENERGY, TATUM LEARNED EARLY HOW TO E HUMOR TO FLECT ATTENTN AND FE TENSN, A STRATEGY THAT, AS HE HAS GOTTEN OLR, SEEMS TO HAVE MORPHED TO A KD OF WORLDVIEW, AN ABILY TO SEE THE SILVER LG SUATNS THAT OTHERS MIGHT FD UNFORTABLE OR UNPLEASANT. “I DON’T WANT TO GET ALL RNY, BUT I GUS THAT IS KD OF MY PG MECHANISM LIFE, IS TO FD THE FUN.”TATUM WAS DISVERED TO BE FOLLOWG A NUMBER OF KRAVZ’S FAN ACUNTS ON INSTAGRAM: “I HAVE NO CHILL.” IT WAS NOCENT, HE SWEARS. “I WAS JT SEEG WHAT SHE WAS UP TO! ALSO, I DIDN’T KNOW ANYONE WOULD KNOW.”“THIS IS GOG TO BE CRAZY,” HE TOLD HIS IEND AS THEY SLIPPED ON THONGS AT JOY, THE STRIP CLUB TAMPA WHERE HE STARTED DANCG AT 18, EFFECTIVELY RCG THE EXPERIENCE TO A FUNNY ANECDOTE AS WAS HAPPENG. THIS OUTLOOK WAS EFUL HOLLYWOOD, AN DTRY THAT N BE SIAR TO STRIP CLUBS, WHERE ONE N EASILY END UP A BAD SUATN.“THE DTRY IS FAIRLY BTAL IF YOU HAVE A SPARK OF CREATIVY,” SAYS REID CAROL, WHO WAS HIS EARLY 20S AND WORKG AS ASSISTANT TO THE DIRECTOR ON THE 2008 MOVIE STOP-LOSS WHEN HE MET TATUM. TATUM WAS PLAYG A SOLDIER, THE KD OF ROLE THAT, AS A MCULAR WHE MAN WH A HT OF WILDNS BEHD THE EY, HE’D BE ASKED TO PLAY MANY TIM OVER THE NEXT FEW YEARS, CLUDG DEAR JOHN, G.I. JOE, HAYWIRE, AND THE ROMAN MOVIE, THE EAGLE. “YOU GET TYPEST,” SAYS CAROL, WHO BEME IENDS AND EVENTUALLY BS PARTNERS WH TATUM. “WE PRETTY QUICKLY REALIZED THE ONLY WAY WE ULD FD FULFILLMENT THE DTRY WAS TO CREATE AND RETA OWNERSHIP OF OUR OWN MATERIAL.”THEY FORMED A PRODUCTN PANY, WHICH THEY LLED 33&OUT, WH THE GOAL OF WORKG AS HARD—AND HAVG AS MUCH FUN—AS THEY ULD UNTIL THEY REACHED THE SO-LLED J YEAR, AT WHICH POT THEY’D PEACE OUT. “GO AND LIVE ON AN ISLAND SOMEWHERE,” AS TATUM TOLD ME BACK 2011.WHEN STEVEN SORBERGH, WHO’D DIRECTED TATUM HAYWIRE, EXPRSED TERT DIRECTG A MOVIE ABOUT TATUM’S PAST LIFE AS A STRIPPER, THEY JUMPED AT THE OPPORTUNY. CAROL, WHO’D NEVER SOLD A FEATURE-FILM SCRIPT BEFORE, BEGAN WORKG ON A STORY THEY SAW AS BEG LIKE BOOGIE NIGHTS OR SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER: A DARKLY EDIC TALE ABOUT A YOUNG MAN WHO ENTERS A WORLD THAT IS SUPERFICIALLY SEXY BUT ULTIMATELY PRETTY GRIM. “BEE THAT WORLD IS NOT ROSY,” TATUM POTS OUT. “SOME OF THE WORST PEOPLE I’VE EVER MET MY ENTIRE LIFE WERE THAT REALM.”VTAGE SHIRT AND P OM RAGGEDY THREADS.PHOTOGRAPH BY MAR SORRENTI; STYLED BY GEE CORTA.THEN AGA, A MOVIE ABOUT THE WORST PEOPLE THE WORLD DON’T SOUND LIKE VERY MUCH FUN. “SO CHAN THOUGHT THAT MAYBE WE ULD SORT OF CLEAN UP AND MAKE BE SOMETHG DIFFERENT,” CAROL RELLS. THE END RULT—A ROM- ABOUT A HOT MALE STRIPPER WH A HEART OF GOLD DRY-HUMPG HIS WAY TO HIS DREAM OF OWNG HIS OWN BS—WAS A LOT MORE FUN.SANDRA BULLOCK, “LIKE EVERY OTHER WOMAN AMERI,” SHED TO THE THEATER, WHERE SHE REGNIZED THE GUY GRDG ON ALL FOURS—A SIGNATURE MOVE TATUM LLS THE OLD FAHFUL—AS THE SAME ONE WHO HAD CRASHED HER BIRTHDAY PARTY A FEW YEARS BEFORE. “THE DANCE FLOOR HAD NEVER BEEN SO HAPPY,” SHE RELLS.NEEDLS TO SAY, TATUM DIDN’T NEED TO CRASH PARTI AFTER THAT. “I WOULD GO TO THE MEETGS AND ALL THE FEMALE EXECUTIV WOULD BE THERE, LIKE, ‘WHAT A GEIC SPECIMEN, WHAT A GIFT,’ ” SAYS CODY HORN, WHO PLAYED TATUM’S LOVE TERT THE MOVIE AND LATER MARRIED CAROL.HORN BRGS UP SOMETHG I ALSO NOTICED ABOUT TATUM, WHICH IS THAT HIS PRENCE, ’S WEIRDLY EASY TO FET HE IS AN TERNATNALLY FAMO MOVIE STAR AND UNIVERSALLY REVERED SEX GOD WHOSE SUAL HOODIE NCEALS A SET OF ABS MORE VALUABLE THAN THE HOPE DIAMOND. “HE SO RARELY RRI HIS MOVIE STAR–NS AROUND HIS EVERYDAY LIFE, ’S ALMOST SURPRISG WHEN HE DO TURN TO THAT GUY,” SAYS HORN. “AND WHEN HE DO, THERE IS SUCH A MAGISM TO HIM THAT YOU N HARDLY LOOK AT HIM WHOUT FALLG ON THE FLOOR. IT’S SANELY SEXY. YOU’RE KD OF LIKE, ‘EXCE ME, TURN THAT OFF.’ ”TATUM’S ABILY TO SHIFT TO REGULAR-GUY MO ALSO ENABLED HIM TO SUCCSFULLY CROSS GENR. IN THE 2010S, HE WORKED NONSTOP ON A WI RANGE OF PROJECTS: INIC EDI LIKE THE 21 JUMP STREET REBOOTS; CRILLY ACCLAIMED DRAMAS LIKE FOXTCHER; AND BIG-BUDGET ANCHIS LIKE G.I. JOE. NOT TO MENTN HIS OWN MAGIC MIKE, WHICH SPAWNED A 2015 SEQUEL, MAGIC MIKE XXL, A LIVE SHOW VEGAS WH VERSNS LONDON AND MIAMI, AND A REALY SHOW ON HBO MAX.JACKET AND PANTS BY BALENCIAGA; VTAGE BOOTS OM MELET MERNTILE; VTAGE APRON OM STOCK VTAGE.PHOTOGRAPH BY MAR SORRENTI; STYLED BY GEE CORTA.TATUM NEVER GRADUATED OM LLEGE, BUT HE TURNED OUT TO BE A VERY APT BSMAN. MAGIC MIKE LAND HIM ON THE LIST OF HIGHT-PAID ACTORS HOLLYWOOD, A PLACE HE NTU TO OCCUPY, HAVG RECENTLY NEGOTIATED A REPORTED $25 LN AL WH AMAZON TO PRODUCE AND STAR THE SPY THRILLER RED SHIRT. BUT ACRDG TO CAROL, MONEY ISN’T TATUM’S MA MOTIVATN. “IT’S NOT LIKE THERE’S SOME MATERIALIST END TO HIS AMBNS, LIKE ‘I WANT TO MAKE A BILLN DOLLARS,’ ” HE SAYS. “IT’S MORE LIKE, ‘WHAT WOULD BE THE MOST TERTG E OF MY TIME?’ HE’S A GENUE ARTIST THAT WAY.”SOMEWHERE BETWEEN BEG NAMED THE SEXIT MAN ALIVE BY PEOPLE AND ONE OF THE MOST FLUENTIAL BY TIME, TATUM REALIZED HE’D STOPPED HAVG FUN. HE WAS VASTATED WHEN STUD EXECS PULLED THE PLUG ON A MARVEL MOVIE HE AND CAROL HAD SPENT YEARS VELOPG, BASED ON THE X-MEN CHARACTER GAMB. “IT GOT SWALLOWED UP TO DISNEY BY WAY OF MARVEL WHEN THEY BOUGHT FOX, AND ULTIMATELY I JT THK THAT THE TONE OF THE MOVIE WE WANTED TO MAKE WAS VERY FAR OM WHAT THEY WANTED TO DO—OR, YOU KNOW, MAYBE THEY’RE WAG TO SEE HOW THEY DO WH OR WHOUT ,” SAYS TATUM. “WE LL EVERY ONCE A WHILE, BUT WE’VE GOT TO SPIRUALLY, EMOTNALLY, KD OF MENTALLY LET GO.”BUT WAS MORE THAN THAT. SOMETHG FELT OFF. “I WAS WORKG A LOT,” HE RELLS. “I HAD GOTTEN TO WORK WH SOME OF MY FAVORE DIRECTORS. I HAD CHECKED BOX THAT I WOULD NEVER HAVE HOPED TO DREAM ABOUT. BUT SOMETHG JT WASN’T QUE FILLG ME UP. I WAS SORT OF KD OF JT TRYG NOT TO BE BAD MOVI, STEAD OF BEG GOOD. AND I WAS KD OF GOG, ‘WHAT’S…’ AND REALLY HAD NOTHG TO DO WH MY WORK. IT WAS REALLY ABOUT MY LIFE.”TATUM AND JENNA DEWAN HAD BEEN TOGETHER EVER SCE THEY MET ON THE 2006 MOVIE STEP UP, WHICH, SE YOU MISSED , WAS ONE OF THOSE DANCE MOVI WHERE THE BALLERA FALLS LOVE WH THE ROUGH-AND-TUMBLE STREET DANCER. THEIR REAL-LIFE PARTNERSHIP SEEMED TO MIRROR THE PLOT: DEWAN WAS A BETIFUL, POISED FORMER PROFSNAL DANCER TO WELLNS AND VEGANISM. TATUM WAS AN EX-STRIPPER OM FLORIDA WHO HATED VEGETABL AND WORE BASEBALL PS SIWAYS WELL TO HIS 30S.SANDRA BULLOCK, HIS GOOD IEND AND STAR, LLS HIM “A BETIFUL EVOLVED GOOFBALL WHO BRGS JOY WHEREVER HE GO.”BUT UNLIKE WHAT YOU SEE THE MOVI, TWO WILDLY DIFFERENT PEOPLE NNOT ALWAYS LIVE HAPPILY EVER AFTER. “WE FOUGHT FOR FOR A REALLY LONG TIME, EVEN THOUGH WE BOTH SORT OF KNEW THAT WE HAD SORT OF GROWN APART,” TATUM RELLS AT BNCH.“I THK WE TOLD OURSELV A STORY WHEN WE WERE YOUNG, AND WE JT KEPT TELLG OURSELV THAT STORY, NO MATTER HOW BLATANTLY LIFE WAS TELLG THAT WE WERE SO DIFFERENT. BUT WHEN YOU’RE ACTUALLY PARENTS,” HE GO ON, “YOU REALLY UNRSTAND DIFFERENC BETWEEN THE TWO OF YOU. BEE IS SCREAMG AT YOU ALL DAY LONG. HOW YOU PARENT DIFFERENTLY, HOW YOU LOOK AT THE WORLD, HOW YOU GO THROUGH THE WORLD.”IN THE END, TRY AS THEY MIGHT, THEY ULD NO LONGER FD THE FUN. “IN THE BEGNG, WAS SUPER SRY AND TERRIFYG,” HE SAYS OF THEIR IAL SEPARATN. “YOUR LIFE JT TURNS ON S AXIS. THIS WHOLE PLAN THAT YOU HAD LERALLY JT TURNS TO SAND AND GO THROUGH YOUR FGERS AND YOU’RE JT LIKE, ‘OH, SH. WHAT NOW?’ ”BUT, ON THE BRIGHT SI, TATUM NTU:“IT WAS PROBABLY EXACTLY WHAT I NEED. I DON’T THK I WOULD’VE EVER DONE THE WORK, I THK, ON MYSELF THE WAY THAT I HAD TO DO THE WORK ON MYSELF TO REALLY TRY TO FIGURE OUT WHAT NEXT. AND REALLY, JT STARTED WH MY DGHTER. I JT DROPPED EVERYTHG AND JT FOCED ON HER. AND WAS TLY THE BT POSSIBLE THG THAT I EVER ULD HAVE DONE. BEE THE ALONE TIME THAT I HAVE WH JT ME AND HER, WE’VE BEE BT IENDS.”SEE WHAT I MEAN? HE EVEN MAK A DIVORCE SOUND KD OF GREAT.VTAGE JACKET OM STOCK VTAGE; VTAGE OVERALLS AND SHIRT OM RAGGEDY THREADS.PHOTOGRAPH BY MAR SORRENTI; STYLED BY GEE CORTA.TO BE CLEAR, HE WASN’T JT STG AROUND HIS FEELGS. TATUM RARELY STAYS STILL, AND DURG HIS SUPPOSED HIAT HE MANAGED TO ACPLISH MORE THAN MOST PEOPLE DO THEIR ENTIRE LIV: HE PATED, HE SCULPTED. (“I LIKE ANATOMY,” HE SAYS. “NOT LIKE A DAHMER WAY, BUT IF YOU GIVE ME A PIECE OF CLAY, I ULD MAKE YOUR HAND.”) HE GOT REALLY HARD-RE TO DIRT BIK AND WENT HIKG THE MOUNTAS OF NORWAY WH THE BRISH ADVENTURER BEAR GRYLLS. HE STARTED A CHILDREN’S BOOK SERI ABOUT SPARKELLA, A TUTU-WEARG GIRL WH A FUN-LOVG DAD (THE THIRD ONE OUT THIS YEAR), AND BEGAN WORK ON A ROMANCE NOVEL WH THE WRER AND SOCIAL MENTATOR ROXANE GAY, WHOM HE BEIEND AFTER SHE WROTE ABOUT WANTG TO “HUG EVERY PART OF HIM WH MY MOUTH” ONLE. “SHE HAS ALMOST A ROUGHED-OUT OUTLE OF A STORY THAT WE BOTH LOVE,” HE SAYS. “WE JT GOT TO FD TIME TO DO . SHE’S THE BIT, SHE’S WAY BIER THAN I AM.”HE AND CAROL ALSO DIRECTED DOG, A MAN-AND-NE STORY SPIRED BY THE ATH OF TATUM’S BELOVED DOG LULU. ALTHOUGH THE SCRIPT, THE DOG LIV: “YOU DON’T WANT PEOPLE TO BE CRYG THEIR EY OUT,” TATUM EXPLAS. “ESPECIALLY NOWADAYS. J. NO ONE WANTS TO SEE A SAD MOVIE.”DOG, WHICH ME OUT LAST YEAR, AND THE LOST CY, A ROM- WHICH HE PLAYS A FAB-QUE MOL OPPOSE SANDRA BULLOCK’S JAD ROMANCE WRER, MARKED THE OFFICIAL END TO TATUM’S HIAT, ALTHOUGH JT AS HE BEGAN TO EMERGE, THE WORLD SHUT DOWN.“IT WAS A SHSHOW,” SAYS BULLOCK OF THE HAVOC THE PANMIC WROUGHT ON THE PRODUCTN, WHICH FILMED THE DOMIN REPUBLIC. BUT WORKED OUT. “THE BETY ABOUT CHANNG IS, WHILE HE IS BRILLIANT AND SAVVY AND A BSMAN, THAT IS UPLED WH THE SPIR AND JOY AND THE HIBN OF, LIKE, A CHILD,” SHE ADDS, TALKG ABOUT HOW THEY SWAM AND RO DIRT BIK ON THE BEACH ON THEIR DAYS OFF. “HE’S JT LIKE A BETIFUL EVOLVED GOOFBALL WHO BRGS JOY WHEREVER HE GO.”IN PROJECT ARTEMIS, THE MOVIE HE’S CURRENTLY FILMG WH SRLETT JOHANSSON ATLANTA, TATUM PLAYS A NASA LNCH DIRECTOR DURG THE APOLLO PROGRAM, WHICH ONE MIGHT TERPRET AS AN ATTEMPT TO “TRANSN GRACEFULLY TO THE SHIRT-ON PHASE” OF HIS REER, AS BULLOCK’S CHARACTER PUTS THE LOST CY. BUT, SAYS TATUM, “I DOUBT THAT I’LL BE ABLE TO KEEP MY CLOTH ON FOREVER.”CERTALY NOT AFTER DIENC TAKE MAGIC MIKE’S LAST DANCE, FOR WHICH TATUM GOT TO “THE BT SHAPE OF MY ENTIRE LIFE,” HE TELLS ME, AT WHICH POT I ACTUALLY HAVE TO STOP MAKG EYE NTACT WH HIM BEE, LIKE, I KNOW. THE EVINCE IS VERY MUCH ON DISPLAY THE THIRD AND FAL STALLMENT OF THE ANCHISE, WHICH BEGS WH A SCENE WHICH THE TLE CHARACTER DRY-HUMPS A CHARACTER PLAYED BY SALMA HAYEK PLT FOR SO LONG AND SO MANY DIFFERENT POSNS THAT MAY E BRA HEMORRHAG WOMEN OVER 40.“IN BS, I HAVE NO REAL FEAR OF ANYTHG BEG STROYED,” SAYS TATUM. “BUT HEART THGS, WHEN TO PEOPLE I LOVE, I HAVE A REALLY HARD TIME.”“HELL, Y,” TATUM SAYS WHEN I ASK IF WAS AWKWARD TO BURY HIS FACE MRS. FRANçOIS-HENRI PLT’S CROTCH AND RRY HER AROUND A ROOM WH HER LEGS WRAPPED AROUND HIS NECK. “I MEAN, SHE WAS ONE OF MY FIRST CSH. BUT I DO HAVE TO SAY THAT’S ALMOST THE FORT ZONE FOR ME.”IT’S HARD TO IMAGE NOW, BUT BACK 2012 FEW HAD EXPECTED THE PRIMARY DIENCE FOR MAGIC MIKE TO BE WOMEN. FEMALE SIRE WASN’T SOMETHG POPULARLY ACKNOWLEDGED OR TALKED ABOUT UNTIL SUDNLY WAS EVERYWHERE. “WE UGHT THE FIFTY SHAS WAVE,” SAYS PETER KIERNAN, TATUM’S FORMER MANAGER AND A PARTNER HIS PRODUCTN PANY, WHICH RELNCHED AS FREE ASSOCIATN AFTER TATUM & CO. CID MIGHT BE POSSIBLE TO HAVE FUN THE BS PAST THE RIPE OLD AGE OF 33 AFTER ALL.STILL, THEY DIDN’T HAVE THIS DIENCE TOP OF MD WHEN THEY MA MAGIC MIKE XXL. AS THE FIRST MOVIE, THE ACTN CENTERS ON THE MALE CHARACTERS, SOMETHG THAT AS TIME WENT ON AND THE WORLD CHANGED, TATUM BEGAN TO HAVE MISGIVGS ABOUT. “REALLY, THE FIRST TWO MOVI ARE FEATHERED-FISH SORT OF MOVI, MY OPN,” HE SAYS NOW. “THEY’RE MOVI ABOUT MEN MA FOR WOMEN, OR PEOPLE THAT LIKE MEN, BUT NONE OF THEM HAD REALLY STRONG FEMALE CHARACTERS. SO FELT LIKE WE SORT OF HOODWKED PEOPLE ON SOME LEVEL. LIKE WE CHEATED THE .”TATUM GREW UP AROUND STRONG WOMEN, HE POTS OUT. HE IS VERY CLOSE TO HIS MOTHER AND SISTER. BUT HE PPOTS HIS RECENT FEMIST AWAKENG TO THE BIRTH OF HIS DGHTER. “ONLY HAVG A DGHTER DID START TO REALLY SRE ME HOW SRY THE WORLD IS FOR WOMEN,” HE TELLS ME. “YOU N NCEIVE WHEN YOU LOVE SOMEONE THAT IS A GIRL, BUT DON’T LAND THE SAME WAY AS HAVG A TY FEMALE HUMAN THE WORLD THAT IS SO VULNERABLE AND LOOKG AT THE WORLD THROUGH ROSE-LORED GLASS.”HEARG THE REVELATNS OF THE NEWLY WOKE N BE AS IRRATG AS HEARG SOMEONE TALK ABOUT THEIR DREAMS, BUT TATUM ACROSS AS GENUE.“FOR WHATEVER REASON, HE IS TIMATELY AWARE OF HIS PRIVILEGE,” GAY TOLD ME AN EMAIL. “HE DON’T APOLOGIZE FOR , WHICH IS, ANKLY, REHG. LIKE, YOU’RE AN ABSURDLY ATTRACTIVE FAMO WEALTHY WHE MAN. PLEASE DON’T PRETEND THAT ISN’T GREAT. BUT HE TREATS PEOPLE WELL,” SHE ADD, NOTG THAT ON THEIR “FUN AND SEXY” ROMANCE-NOVEL PROJECT, TATUM WENT OUT OF HIS WAY TO ENSURE THEY WERE PAID EQUALLY.“TO BE CLEAR, THAT IS THE RIGHT THG TO DO,” GAY POTED OUT. “AND WE SHOULDN’T GIVE MEDALS TO PEOPLE FOR DOG THE RIGHT THG, BUT AT THE SAME TIME, MOST PEOPLE SIMPLY DON’T DO THE RIGHT THG AND IS NOTABLE WHEN HAPPENS.”NOTABLY, MAGIC MIKE’S LAST DANCE HAS A FEMALE LEAD THE FORM OF HAYEK PLT, WHO PLAYS MAXANDRA MENDOZA, A WEALTHY DIVORCéE WHO GETS HER GROOVE BACK BY REIMAGG A WORN-OUT WT END SHOW AS A MALE REVUE FOR THE THKG WOMAN. “I THK WE WANTED THAT SPECIFILLY BEE I FEEL SOME SORT OF MORE RPONSIBILY THAT THE OTHER MOVI WEREN’T ABOUT WOMEN, THEY WERE ABOUT MEN,” TATUM SAYS. “AND WE TRIED TO TROJAN-HORSE SOME REAL FEEL-GOOD, I DON’T WANT TO SAY WOMAN EMPOWERMENT, SELF-TROSPECTN STUFF THERE,” HE ADDS, ALTHOUGH THIS MIGHT NOT BE QUE THE RIGHT METAPHOR, SCE THE THEME IS PRETTY ONT AND CENTER.“WOULDN’T BE CHVISTIC TO HAVE A SHOW ABOUT WOMEN EMPOWERMENT THAT DON’T HAVE A FEMALE CHARACTER?” A CHARACTER CLAR AT SOME POT.LIKE, THE HORSE IS RIGHT THERE.SHIRT BY LORO PIANA.PHOTOGRAPH BY MAR SORRENTI; STYLED BY GEE CORTA.IF ANYTHG IS BEG SMUGGLED , MIGHT BE THE PLOT, WHICH WAS SPIRED BY THE CREATN OF MAGIC MIKE LIVE AND, LIKE THE MOVI, IS SEMI-TOBGRAPHIL:“IT BEGS WH MIKE, AT 40, BASILLY BEG LIKE, ‘ALL RIGHT, I DID THE WHOLE TAKG MYSELF SERLY THG, I STARTED A PANY THAT ULTIMATELY I BUILT UP THIS GREAT WAY, THIS WAY THAT I ALWAYS DREAMED OF,’ ” TATUM SAYS. “ ‘BUT STILL DIDN’T FULFILL ME. IT WASN’T THE THG I THOUGHT THAT WAS GOG TO MAKE ME WHOLE, OR MAKE ME HAVE SELF-RPECT OR WORTH OR WHATEVER.’ AND THEN THIS OPPORTUNY THROUGH THAT A WAY BRGS HIM BACK TO THE THG THAT HE STARTED AS.” ALTHOUGH ’S UNLIKELY THAT ANYONE WILL NOTICE, GIVEN THE AFOREMENTNED DRY-HUMPG SCENE.“I DON’T KNOW IF I’M EVER GOG TO GET MARRIED AGA,” SAYS TATUM, WHO SUGGTS WE GET A FOOT MASSAGE AFTER OUR POTTERY LSON. THERE’S A PLACE NEARBY, ONE HE’S BEEN GOG TO SCE HE STARTED SPENDG MORE TIME NEW YORK WH KRAVZ. TATUM IS, HE ADMS, A SERIAL MONOGAMIST. AFTER HE AND HIS WIFE SEPARATED, HE DATED THE SGER JSIE J ON AND OFF FOR NEARLY TWO YEARS.HE FIRST MET KRAVZ AFTER READG AN EARLY DRAFT OF PSY ISLAND, WHICH SHE AND HER WRER HAD BEEN SPIRED TO WRE AFTER READG STORI ABOUT POWERFUL MEN TAKG ADVANTAGE OF WOMEN. SHE HAD HIM MD FOR THE ISLAND’S OWNER, A SISTER TECH BILLNAIRE FAR REMOVED OM THE AFFABLE, FUN-LOVG TYP HE UALLY PLAYS. “I THOUGHT WAS SUPER PUNK ROCK,” TATUM RELLS. “SHE HAD PASSN THERE, AND SHE HAD A POT OF VIEW THAT WAS REALLY SPECIFIC TO WHO SHE WAS AND WHAT HER EXPERIENCE WAS. BUT I WASN’T SURE WAS CLEAR YET, WHAT WANTED TO BE.” THEY AGREED TO KEEP TALKG. “LERALLY, AFTER THAT MEETG, MY LIFE WENT HOW DID AND WE LOST TOUCH,” HE SAYS. “THEN, CUT TO TWO AND A HALF YEARS LATER, THEY HAD A NEW DRAFT, AND WAS GREAT. I WAS LIKE, ‘WOW. YOU ARE REALLY SAYG SOMETHG,’ ” HE GO ON. “THAT’S THE KD OF PERSON YOU WANT TO CREATE WH. THAT REALLY HAS THIS PERSPECTIVE THEY’RE NSTANTLY DIGGG FOR.”TATUM’S PANY IS ALSO HELPG TO PRODUCE THE FILM, WHICH KRAVZ DIRECTED. “WEIRDLY, WAS FORTABLE,” HE SAYS, ADDG THAT WORK, LIKE PLANTG HIS FACE A WOMAN’S LAP, IS ALSO HIS FORT ZONE.“RELATNSHIPS ARE HARD FOR ME,” TATUM SAYS, UNFURLG HIS SOCKS. “EVEN THOUGH I AM A B OF A MONOGAMIST. IN BS, I HAVE NO REAL FEAR OF ANYTHG BEG STROYED. BUT HEART THGS, WHEN TO PEOPLE I LOVE, I HAVE A REALLY HARD TIME. I END UP TRYG TOO HARD, YOU KNOW?”IN OTHER WORDS, AS THE TER OBSERVED AFTER TATUM WAS DISVERED TO BE FOLLOWG A NUMBER OF KRAVZ’S FAN ACUNTS ON INSTAGRAM: “I HAVE NO CHILL.” IT WAS NOCENT, HE SWEARS. “I WAS JT SEEG WHAT SHE WAS UP TO! ALSO, I DIDN’T KNOW ANYONE WOULD KNOW.”BUT THE DAYS HE’S TRYG TO HAVE MORE CHILL GENERAL. “SO I N ACTUALLY EXPERIENCE THE MOMENTS, STEAD OF JT TRYG TO CHANGE OR SOMETHG,” HE SAYS. “OR BEG AAID THAT ’S NOT GOG TO WORK OUT HOW I WANTED OR SOMETHG.”VTAGE JACKET AND SHIRT OM STOCK VTAGE; VTAGE PANTS AND APRON OM MELET MERNTILE. PHOTOGRAPH BY MAR SORRENTI; STYLED BY GEE CORTA.“YOU KNOW WHEN THGS ARE KD OF JT WORKG, YOU DON’T WANT TO TOUCH ? LIKE POTTERY,” HE ADDS. “LIKE POTTERY. IF I KEEP PRSG ON , ’S GOG TO BUCK ME OFF. AND YOU’RE JT LIKE, ‘OOH. MAYBE I SHOULD STOP.’”HE NSIRS. “I THK LIFE—”“SHHH.” THE GUY MASSAGG TATUM’S FEET HH HIM. SOMEONE BEHD A SCREEN IS GETTG A FULL-BODY MASSAGE, AND HE DON’T WANT TO TERPT THEIR ZEN WH OUR CHATTER.“THIS IS HILAR,” TATUM WHISPERS.AFTERWARD, TATUM OFFERS TO WALK ME TO THE SUBWAY SO HE N FISH HIS THOUGHT. “I THK LIFE HAS A REALLY FUN WAY TO GIVE YOU EXACTLY WHAT YOU NEED WHEN YOU NEED ,” HE SAYS. “NOT MEANG GIFTS, OR ANYTHG LIKE THAT. BUT WHAT YOU NEED TO LEARN.”EARLY ON HIS SEPARATN, HE SAYS, WHEN THGS WERE STILL REALLY RAW AND PAFUL, REID CAROL TOLD HIM ABOUT A PROFSOR OF PARATIVE RELIGN WHO SAYS THAT THE BT WISDOM OM PEOPLE WHO HAVE LOST “TWO WORLDS.” “MEANG LIKE EXPERIENC, TWO KD OF LIFE-ATHS WHERE EVERYTHG CHANG,” TATUM EXPLAS.“EVERYTHG THAT YOU THOUGHT WAS JT ALL OF A SUDN A BLK OF AN EYE, YOU LOSE A CHILD OR YOU, YEAH, GET A DIVORCE, YOUR LIFE FALLS APART. YOU KNOW? WHERE YOUR WORLD AS YOU KNOW PLETELY JT EVAPORAT ONT OF YOUR FACE FOREVER. 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— roxane gay (@rgay) July 8, 2015He is perfect.

@Leanrbela— roxane gay (@rgay) July 8, 2015Tatum's "Magic Mike XXL" -star Joe Manganiello, who was also at the terview, was exced to hear of Gay's tert the film. "In a re-p on her webse tled "I Wanted to Hug Every Part of Him Wh My Mouth: A Magic Mike XXL Rep, " Gay gave the movie her femist stamp of approval. Relatedmagic mikeWomenChanng Tatum magic mike xxlroxane gayBefore You Go10 women on why femism still mattersPopular the CommunyYou May Like.

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If we uld be a fly on the wall for any nversatn, would be the one which Channg Tatum and Roxane Gay talk "Magic Mike," femism and okg. Tatum, star of male-strippg sequel "Magic Mike XXL," learned durg an terview Wednday wh Daily Life that femist thor Gay is a huge fan of him. Tatum immediately exprsed tert talkg to her about the "Magic Mike" films, which are based loosely on his life as an 18-year-old stripper the late '90s. Talk of a meetup started wh Tatum answerg a qutn that Gay submted to Daily Life, an Atralian outlet. She wanted to know "Do he ok'" He answered wh a roundg y and said he'd like to talk wh the "Bad Femist" thor. "I wonr if she oks ... We're gonna do a 'Magic Mike' Vegas show, and 's..." he says before sighg. "'Femist' is like a hard word for me to throw around. I would love to say I'm a femist, but I don't study femism, so I n't be like, 'Y, I'm a femist!' But I'm very pro-femism. I want to talk to her about the 'Magic Mike' show." After learng of Tatum's ments, Gay unleashed her excement on Twter. Close to hangg out wh Channg I thk.' roxane gay (@rgay) July 8, 2015 I will cry on Channjng's neck.' roxane gay (@rgay) July 8, 2015 Guys. Channg knows my name. Thanks @AmyMcNeilage. Life plete' roxane gay (@rgay) July 8, 2015 It's cute that we are all pretendg I wouldn't lose my sh ont of Channg.' roxane gay (@rgay) July 8, 2015 He is perfect. Tho I actually don't want to like BE wh him. I jt love him so much. I am very happy wh my person. @Leanrbela' roxane gay (@rgay) July 8, 2015 Tatum's "Magic Mike XXL" -star Joe Manganiello, who was also at the terview, was exced to hear of Gay's tert the film. "I'm glad she digs !" he said. "Bee, you know, I n see how is pro-femist. But 's also a movie where the men reta their masculy, which I thk is, you know, a balancg act. I'm glad that she enjoys . We're still guys." In a re-p on her webse tled "I Wanted to Hug Every Part of Him Wh My Mouth: A Magic Mike XXL Rep," Gay gave the movie her femist stamp of approval. "This movie ters, at all tim, to the female gaze," she wrote. "It is queer iendly. The movie embrac women of all siz. The movie embrac nsent and plac an emphasis on women's sexual pleasure. I wish I had somethg really smart to say here but this movie felt femist. The movie treated women like they were sentient begs rather than sexual objects and the movie boldly celebrated women's sexualy." Here's to hopg this one-on-one actually happens. -- This feed and s ntents are the property of The Huffgton Post, and e is subject to our terms. It may be ed for personal nsumptn, but may not be distributed on a webse. * roxane gay magic mike xxl *

Magic Mike XXL’s Perfectly Sculpted Gay Panrg. It’s the ntext of seeg the film I hold on to: A small group of gay iends and I picked the gayt theater we uld thk of (an off-brand cema New York’s Chelsea neighborhood), got liquored up on girly drks beforehand, and giggled wh light when, as we stepped off the lator on the mezzane, we saw that the theater had hired go-go boys to add ftivy to the openg night.

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Throughout all this, there was a sense that we were dog somethg slightly transgrsive—turng a movie that was ostensibly for straight women to one of the gayt events of the year. That gay men are an equally enthiastic dience for Channg Tatum’s smooth mov and Joe Manganiello’s Adonis-like (though, sadly here, shaven) mculature seems to have dawned on the productn team behd Magic Mike XXL, the charmg sequel out this week. In fact, the film, which follows the temporarily reassembled stripper crew on a journey om Tampa, Florida, to a nventn Myrtle Beach, aka the “Redneck Riviera, ” is surprisgly ferential to s gay viewership—so much so that the first third largely pends on a drag show and s gltery wake for dramatic material.

Of urse, drag isn’t what most gay men are g to this movie to see; the draw is more along the l of the glor sightg of Manganiello’s ass that about five mut or the mpy gas statn scene where the same man do himself Cheetos and water to make a dowdy shier se.

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and (max-width: 1299px) 530px,(m-width: 1300px) and (max-width: 1439px) 691px,(m-width: 1440px) 916px,440px" dg="async"/></div><figptn class="ml-gutter mr-gutter mr-to-ns ml-to-ns font--subhead font-xxxs mt-xs left gray-dark">A scene om the new Warner Bros. Pictur film “Magic Mike XXL.” (Cltte Bari/Warner Bros. Pictur)</figptn></figure></div><div class="grid-body"><div class="wpds-c-PJLV wpds-c-PJLV-hSmMVC-isLuf2-false"><div class="wpds-c-jUMcim wpds-c-jUMcim-ibVGacg-css hi-for-prt mb-sm"><div class="PJLV PJLV-ieDMgMI-css flex ems-center" nfig="[object Object]" data-qa="article-actns"><div class="wpds-c-mfMEg"><div class="wpds-c-kSOqLF wpds-c-hnjNCH wpds-c-kSOqLF-bywHgD-variant-primary wpds-c-kSOqLF-biynoz-nsy-pact wpds-c-kSOqLF-hZSyid-isOutle-te wpds-c-kSOqLF-ejCoEP-in-left wpds-c-kSOqLF-futx-cv wpds-c-hnjNCH-eNNUQD-cv wpds-c-hnjNCH-jGqLyO-cv"><div id="gift-share" data-ttid="gift-share" class="PJLV PJLV-ieGzigK-css hi-for-prt"><button aria-haspopup="dialog" aria-expand="false" aria-ntrols="gift-share-drawer" role="button" tabx="0" aria-label="Share this article" id="gift-share-drawer-ntrol" data-ttid="gift-share-drawer-ntrol" class="wpds-c-PJLV wpds-c-gsmDXe wpds-c-gsmDXe-dTGBTO-placement-ActnBar foc-highlight"><svg xmlns=" fill="currentColor" viewBox="0 0 16 16" class="wpds-c-fBqPWp wpds-c-fBqPWp-idCxsxc-css " aria-hidn="te" focable="false" role="img"><path fill="currentColor" d="M8 .6v3.8h.1c-4.4 0-7.3 4.5-6.9 8.8.1.8.2 1.2.2 1.2l.2 1 .4-1.3c.8-2 2-4 6.2-3.9H8v4l7-6.9L8 .6Zm1 11.3V9.3h-.9c-3 0-4.8.5-6.2 2.9.5-3.3 2.7-6.8 6.2-6.8H9V3l4.5 4.4L9 11.9Z"></path></svg></button></div><span aria-hidn="te" class="wpds-c-fBEbFG">Share</span></div></div></div></div></div><div class="teaser-ntent grid-center"><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null"><b>This post discs the plot of “Magic Mike XXL,” to the extent that the movie actually <em>has</em> a plot.</b></p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">At the begng of “Magic Mike XXL,” the sequel to Steven Sorbergh’s excellent 2012 movie about a squadron of male strippers based on the experienc of anchise star Channg Tatum, retired male entertaer Mike Lane (Tatum) heads to what he mistakenly believ is a wake. But on his way down the hall, he’s shoved asi by a young woman wearg a biki and a motorcycle helmet, who barrels down the hall and tackl a man straight to a swimmg pool. A few mut later, we see her bouncg around a hotel room, head-buttg one man wh her helmet, tracg another’s jawle wh a fger, ttg out the sprgs of a motel mattrs. She’s a lightful embodiment of female id, but after that scene, she disappears om “Magic Mike XXL” whout speakg a word, and we never learn her name.</p></div></div><div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="db dn-ns mr-neg-gutter ml-neg-gutter mb-md hi-for-prt" data-qa="subscribe-promo"><div data-orientatn="horizontal" role="separator" class="wpds-c-dbVHzF wpds-c-dbVHzF-hDkAcj-variant-flt"></div><a class="pt-sm pb-sm flex ems-center bold font-xxxs font-xxs-ns jtify-center" href=" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="lor:#166dfc;borr:none"><svg class="ntent-box" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24" xmlns=" aria-hidn="te" focable="false" role="img"><tle>Wp</tle><path d="M11.055 8.728l-1.018-1.019-.782.782v6.292l1.782 1.564.018-.019v-7.6zm-4.11.236L5.674 7.71l-.836.855v6.237l1.545 1.327.564-.636V8.964zm2.656 9.074l-2.528-2.182-1.927 2.182-2.619-2.255v-3.564h-.509c-.454 0-.672.273-.745.636H1.09a2.89 2.89 0 0 1-.091-.69c0-.473.2-1.71 1.527-1.71V7.691c0-1.073-.709-1.127-.709-2.054 0-1.037.982-2 2.782-2.637l.164.145c-.6.291-1.09.655-1.09 1.437 0 1.2 1.163.89 1.163 2.782v.727l2.127-2.236 2.237 2.2 2.109-2.2 2.036 2v6.728l-3.745 3.455zm11.108-9.625l-1.073-.982-.964 1.018v6.6c.855.11 1.491.4 2.019.964l.018-.018V8.413zm-2.382.418l-.528.545v10.237l.528.492V8.83zm1.49 9.055c-.308-.382-.69-.709-1.145-.836v3.782l-.036.018-1-.927-2.11 1.945-.036-.018V16.96c-.636.145-1.327.545-1.854 1.2l-.146-.091c.127-1.4.818-2.436 2-2.837v-3.545h-.382c-.527 0-.89.363-.963.763h-.219c-.054-.145-.127-.381-.127-.836 0-.891.6-1.564 1.582-1.564h.11V8.085l-.655-.582-.51.51-.254-.237 2.018-2.073 1.71 1.564V9.05l.527-.564v-2.09h.345v1.727l2.273-2.419L23 7.576v7.91l-3.182 2.4z" fill-le="evenodd"></path></svg><span class="mr-xs ml-xs gray-darkt flex ems-center">Get the full experience.<span class="ml-xs subs-theme blue">Choose your plan</span></span><svg class="ntent-box" width="16" height="16" viewBox="0 0 16 16" xmlns=" style="fill:#166dfc" aria-hidn="te" focable="false" role="img"><tle>ArrowRight</tle><path d="M7.664 1.25l6 6a1 1 0 010 1.414l-6 6L6.25 13.25 10.499 9H2V7h8.585L6.25 2.664 7.664 1.25z" fill-le="nonzero"></path></svg></a><div data-orientatn="horizontal" role="separator" class="wpds-c-dbVHzF wpds-c-dbVHzF-hDkAcj-variant-flt"></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">There li the paradox of the “Magic Mike” and “Fifty Shas” anchis, the two most nvcg current bs s for the market power of female sexual sire. Both peddle their leadg men, Mike and Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan the movie), as variatns on a whe, male and glorly hardbodied theme. Christian’s name is as gloomy as his temperament and the weather Seattle; let never be said that “Fifty Shas” thor E.L. Jam is not mted to clary. Mike’s nickname, hometown and general attu are equally aligned. Clouds may roll over Tampa’s beach ocsnally, but for the most part, the blue water sparkl, Mike’s face always seems to breakg to a slow, sctive gr, and the prtidigatn he and the other men known as the Kgs of Tampa work women’s liv is real, at least for a few mut and as long as dollar bills hang the air. Christian wr elaborate ntracts erng how women will subm to him; only one of the Kgs of Tampa is a third-level reiki healer, but they all thk of themselv as sexual shamans, takg their clients on the sexual journeys their hbands and boyiends won’t.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">But for all that “Magic Mike” and “Fifty Shas”<em> look</em> very ltle alike, they’re actually peddlg the same fantasy. Both of the stori are about women who know they want sex, but leave up to men to fe the exact exprsn of their sir.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">“Magic Mike XXL” mak much of the ia that well-fed female sire is out there, wag to be regnized and gratified. The wild reactn at a screeng <a href=">reaffirmed for Roxane Gay that</a> “far too many women are sperately unrsexed and/or aquately sexed.”</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Mike trac the genis of his solo route to a guy a bar who gave a distct air of disregard for his girliend’s pleasure. Mike’s ex-girliend and ex-bs partner, Rome (Jada Pkett-Smh), who now ns a luxur private strip club for women Savannah, stalks through her doma, tellg her employe thgs like “I want you to keep takg re of this bety.” One of Rome’s strippers, Andre (Donald Glover), tells Ken (Matt Bomer), a member of Mike’s crew, that he lov workg wh Rome’s clients bee other men “don’t even ask them what they want. All we have to do is ask them about what they want. And when they tell , ’s a betiful thg.” (As <a href=">NPR’s Lda Holm wr about that scene</a>, “Strippg and sgg to women for money isn’t sad, but the ntext n only be that women beg a posn where they’ll pay good money jt to feel like matters whether they’re to what’s happeng or not is kda sad.”) And onstage at a Myrtle Beach stripper nventn, Rome checks wh the 3,000 women who have thronged there, wantg to know “Did you like that, ladi? Was good for you?” The answer is a roar of approval.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">But the funny thg about “Magic Mike XXL” is that the specific qutn of what women want is posed more theory than practice. In most of the scen, the Kgs of Tampa aren’t askg or listeng. Women exprs the broad outle of lt, and the men dive and fill the specific tails.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">When Richie (Joe Manganiello) heads to a nvenience store to get his strippg mojo back, along wh some bottled water and tasty snacks, he don’t check wh the shier (Ldsey Moser) about what she lik; he jt figur he n tu what will make her se. At Doma, Rome’s strip club, we see Rome givg stctns, speakg for women who seem too shy or hibed to speak for themselv. “There’s always a queen up here who needs to be remd how betiful she is,” she says, pullg a shy, recent divorcée named Carole (Kimberley Dmmond) out of the crowd to be serenad by Andre. The one exceptn to this le is a scene at a lavish hoe outsi Charlton, where the Kgs get a group of middle-aged women talkg about about their sexual liv. One (Andie McDowell) has slept wh only one man, her ex-hband; another (Ann Haton) would like to have sex wh her hband wh the lights on and <a href=">Bryan Adams’s “Heaven”</a> as the soundtrack.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">“Magic Mike XXL” is a betifully posed movie, and I’m sure ’s not cintal that at few moments, women’s fac betray boredom or anxiety. That nvenience store clerk eventually breaks to lghter, but for much of Richie’s route, she’s stone-faced; Richie’s unually charmg, but he’s also behavg a b like every guy who assum he n treat female serviceworkers however he lik. At the stripper nventn, one of the women brought up onstage for a route that volv a lot of cholate sce looks hantly over her shoulr right before she gets a blast of whipped cream to the face. And when Mike tak the stage wh Zoe (Amber Heard), a young woman he’s been flirtg wh throughout his road trip, she often looks surprised and overwhelmed: She may have nsented to losg ntrol, but that don’t mean the sensatn isn’t jarrg.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">That sense of disfort and the negotiatns that rult om are at the re of the “Fifty Shas” novels and the film adaptatn of the first book, which follows the virgal Anastasia Steel’s (Dakota Johnson) iatn by Christian, a mted sexual domant. While the women the “Magic Mike” movi have momentary ntact wh strippers, Anastasia builds a longer-term relatnship wh Christian. And while Rome and Mike’s clients have enough sense of what they want to venture out to a strip club, Anastasia is so experienced — and until she met Christian, so tached om even the ia of sex — that ’s up to Christian to give her a basic sense of her own pleasure.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">But as much as “Fifty Shas” is full of explic sex scen, the fantasy of the anchise is <a href=">much more about the abily to say no</a> than any embrace of y. Over the urse of the novels, Anastasia nvc Christian that his sexual preferenc are the rult of abe rather than a healthy exprsn of sire. If Anastasia learns to exprs and enjoy her own lt, “Fifty Shas” is at least as ncerned wh rrallg a man’s sexual behavr as is wh celebratg female sexual liberatn. The self-knowledge to say no to certa kds of sex, and the eedom to say no and have that mand pletely rpected, are prerequis for te sexual eedom. But there’s somethg awfully unamb about the ia that the mimum ndns reprent the fulfillment of that visn, rather than a startg pot om which we n proceed toward .</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Maybe the tsunami of dollar bills that “Magic Mike” and “Fifty Shas” rake for publishers and movie studs will ph the entertament dtry to make more vtments gratifyg the heterosexual female gaze. The “Magic Mike XXL” screeng I ught was preced by trailers for Natnal Lampoon riff “Vatn,” mob drama “Black Mass,” young adult adaptatn “Paper Towns,” Diablo Cody’s rocker fay drama “Ricki and the Flash,” bpic “Steve Jobs,” horror movie “The Vis” and boxg melodrama “Southpaw,” a sure sign that studs don’t have much like “Magic Mike XXL” their ventory and are sperate for dienc to pivot elsewhere. 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