I kind of knew what I was in for, especially having done the first one. I mean, I've been doing this for a long time. There's definitely nothing I really felt embarrassed or awkward about.
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Is there anything that you had to do in the movie that you felt embarrassed or awkward about?
So yeah, I don't think I'm any more nervous than any normal human being would be, but I think maybe two takes into it, I wasn't really nervous any more." You rehearse in a little room, and all of a sudden you're out there, and you can't even hear yourself because everyone's so loud.
You're about to take your clothes off in front of a thousand people - it's not like an everyday circumstance, and it's not something you can really practice for. "I think it's excited more than anything else. I thought, 'Wow, this could be XXL.'" In some interviews for the last movie, you said that you get nervous going on stage and maybe a little scared. And the characters were all so grounded, and the world was so fleshed out. What really amazes me about it - because I wasn't trepidatious about it, but I can always tell when I go to see a sequel, I'm like, 'Ugh, these guys just wanted to cash in.' When I read the script, I was like, oh my god, these guys really dug deep and found, in some ways, a version of the movie that maybe people thought they were going to get the first time. All of us took 'XXL' in the title to heart, and I think everything is bigger, bolder, flashier. You don't find that out until a ways into it." Channing said he wanted to make the film bigger. So I think you learn a lot about all the guys just in terms of where they are, where they want to be, because I think it's a noble profession in its own right, but there's definitely a ceiling where it's like, 'Uh-oh, I may be a little too old to make rent stripping any more.' They're all looking for what that next chapter is going to be, and that's sort of what you discover about who they are - and what they discover about themselves - along their fantastic voyage." Is your character still married? It's this group of these guys going out for one last ride to try to cash in and have one last moment of glory before they have to face a really scary reality - which is they're kind of getting to the end of their time in their current profession. "I think you know the gist of it: this movie to me is sort of like a stripper odyssey, where it's like a mix of The Last Detail and Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. I would say we all have substantially more to do in this film." What do we learn about Ken that we didn't already know? The way Steven shoots, you can have all the lines in the scene and the camera be a close-up on somebody else, and you can have none of the lines in the scene and the camera can be close up on you. "Well, I mean, more, but it is sort of that Altman-esque type of film where sometimes in scenes there are three conversations going at once. Check out Bomer's interview, then find out what Channing Tatum and Joe Manganiello had to say on the set.Ĭonsidering your character, Ken, doesn't have many lines in the first Magic Mike, how much more will we hear you speak this time? The sexy star opened up about what else we'll learn about his character, as well as the unlikely movie he compares this one too. I visited the set last year with a few other reporters, and when we chatted with Bomer, we made sure to find out if his character, Ken, would be talking this time around - you know, more than one line. You may have just drooled over those recent Matt Bomer shirtless pictures, but come Friday, you'll get to see him take it off - take it all off yet again - in the sequel Magic Mike XXL.