Steven Soderbergh is explaining why the latest Magic Mike film doesn’t feature any nudity

• The director of the most recent Magic Mike movie, Steven Soderbergh, explains why there isn’t any nudity in it.
• There’s no nudity in Magic Mike’s Last Dance.
• Tatum made fun of the idea of doing another Magic Mike in February 2022.

The director of the most recent Magic Mike movie, Steven Soderbergh, explains why there isn’t any nudity in it. With Magic Mike’s Last Dance, which once again features Channing Tatum as “Magic” Mike Lane, the 60-year-old Magic Mike director returns to the big-screen stripper series. Even though there are only shirtless dancers in the R-rated sequel, which also stars Salma Hayek Pinault, Soderbergh believes it still manages to be steamy.

“To me, it’s about sexy. It’s not about the sex, per se, and whether the movie is explicit. There’s no nudity in [my 1998 film] Out of Sight. There’s no nudity in Magic Mike’s Last Dance. There’s not even a thong,” he told Rolling Stone. “And yet, it was our desire to make a sexy movie.”

He added, “What’s sexy is intimacy and genuine emotion. Something that feels alive, and electric, and has the potential for vulnerability. That can be sexy.”

“You’re letting somebody inside your heart, and that’s scary. You can get hurt,” continued Soderbergh. “The really radical thing to do right now, it seems to me, as opposed to showing the beginning of the relationship when there’s all this heat and light because of the attraction — that’s easy — is to show people who’ve been married for 20 years for whom that’s still true. Where you don’t even make a big deal of it. They’ve been together for 20 years, and they’re still into each other in that way.”

Tatum, 42, made fun of the idea of doing another Magic Mike in February 2022, saying that it would entail exercising excessively to meet unrealistic physical standards for the stripping sequences.

When Kelly Clarkson displayed a shirtless image of Tatum from the second movie in the series, Magic Mike XXL, he commented, “That might be the reason why I didn’t want to do a third one.” “Because I have to appear that way.”

“It’s hard to look like that. Even if you do work out, to be that kind of in shape is not natural,” he added. “That’s not even healthy. You have to starve yourself. I don’t think when you’re that lean it’s actually healthy.”

Tatum had stated to news that he intended the female-focused third installment of the franchise to incorporate contemporary dance forms: “The Super Bowl of stripping is what I envision. I want to dance in a way that we haven’t been able to in either of the previous two films because we had to be honest about the fact that the dancing in that environment isn’t really impressive.”

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