Soderbergh presents male stripper in new film - News Interesting!

  Director Steven Soderbergh speaks during a press conference to the movie "Haywire" at the 62nd International Film Festival at the Berlinale in Berlin 15 To promote February 2012.

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By Zorianna Kit

Los Angeles | Thu, May 28 June 2012 06.26 BST Clock

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Filmmaker Steven Soderbergh's new film "Magic Mike", witnessed by actor Channing Tatum inspired as a teenager took the veil on the world of male striptease and humanizes them through a chain of relationships.

Opening times in the United States on Friday, the film 32 years Tatum, Matthew McConaughey and Alex Pettyfer. Tatum plays Mike, who juggle several jobs a day and night to dance Xquisite Club. Mike falls in love with Brooke (Cody Horn), the sister of a 19-year-old nicknamed "The Kid" (Pettyfer), he recruited to work in the club. Mike, the charm of the women in his audience, can not work his magic on Brooke because she does not love his lifestyle.

Soderbergh sat down with Reuters about the movie, wardrobe malfunctions and how the whole "Magic Mike" is a certain similarity with the erotic novel, talk, have "Fifty Shades of Grey".

Q: What made you decide that stripping could be male, a viable idea for a film to be?

A:. Described "as Channing to me like it was a great movie idea was I'm always on the lookout for a world that I have not seen or immersed in. So it is certainly that was, he seemed ready.. "

Q: You worked with Channing on action film in the last year, "Haywire" and just finished working with him on what you love about him "bitter pill".?

A: "It really impressed me about, he had good ideas and gave an excellent performance I liked his attitude seemed to it, he had his act together and was smart about the business' topsy-turvy. '... During this experiment, we started on "Magic Mike." It felt like an obvious hook my wagon to the train Channing Tatum, because I know how he felt what he does. And it can not be more complicated than I'd like the guy. "

Q: Did you personally prepare stripper in the world in order for the shoot?

A: ". In this case, no Channing was my filter for all of this in relation to what is real and what's right I saw a lot of video and there are very few things under control .."

Q: What is it?

A: "Some of the routines very explicit sexual acts with women All I can think what you is." Are they not aware that there are camera phones everywhere and it is announced? It was shocking to see how mob mentality takes over the brain to be unaware that someone will see this stuff for them. "

Q: Is there a lot more mob mentality with female extras for the scenes of the performance?

A: "They went straight to the point for scenes like this, you must receive a document that there are issues of sexual content to be and says, if it makes you feel good, then you should not be here, not you.. a problem with that. They even tried to scam string Matthew (McConaughey)! "

Q: Really?

A: "You look at the film's string hangs Matthew himself seizes and makes a role, because he to flee when a woman grabbed her thong and tried to pull him trying on his body ... I told him, ' You're pushing it. He went straight into the sea of ​​women, and I can not blame them, crossing the line. And I had no desire to control them! "

Q: "Fifty Shades of Grey" is in fashion and now has a pop culture reference. Do you think that the "Magic Mike" taps into the same audience?

A: "It is certainly useful, it does not matter." Fifty Shades of Grey "is about female fantasy -?. It is the fantasies of how powerful they are women want them to be true So started the whole conversation there is no question that we ended up at a time when it in the air. "

Q: "Magic Mike" calls to the 1977 film "Saturday Night Fever" in a sense, sense. Did you rewatch this film before shooting began?

A. .. "I have had I not seen for some time, what was interesting, when we were screening our films and taste was a little, some people have had a problem with the fact that it is a little dark because of the things that to have the baby. People have been made by the effort.

"John Travolta made a difference in" Saturday Night Fever "that you do not get out today. It uses racist language. He drives a car to get to know a girl is slammed as a band in the back seat. So, when people made these comments, I thought my film is not so dark. No one is killed. "