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Originally Posted by Laz
I believe he already has been a stripper at some point
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Yes, the "still" was "again". He was a stripper for a few months when he was in his 20s, which is how this film got made. Apparently while on set with Soderbergh (must've been "Haywire") they were shooting the shit and Tatum mentioned he'd been a stripper, and Soderbergh said something like, "Wow, we gotta make a movie about that," and Tatum said, "****, why?" And Soderbergh said, "Because I've never seen that world on film before."
There are two main characters in "Magic Mike": Tatum as the 30-year-old stripper, and Alex Pettyfer as a young guy who has dropped out of college from his football scholarship and is living on his sister's couch. Apparently both characters are based off Tatum (who, in addition to stripping, was indeed in college on a football scholarship and was living on his sister's couch for a while).