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R eprising their roles as
male strippers in this
sequel, Channing Tatum
and Joe Manganiello adopt their
most innocent expressions when
STACK asks them to explain the
XXL suffix.
“The X is for all the Xtra stuff
that you loved in the first one and
then the L is for laughter. Lots
more laughter,” grins Manganiello.
The fact is that before Tatum
became a major Hollywood player,
he actually did pay his rent as
a male stripper, leading him to
pitch a version of his own story
for the first Magic Mike. Directed
by Steven Soderbergh, the movie
became a surprise hit. Equally
surprising was how much the
guys actually enjoyed playing
their stripper roles, reuniting in
XXL with original cast-mates Matt
Bomer, Kevin Nash and Adam
Rodriguez.
Nobody wants to see a flabby
stripper, yet filming on locations
in Georgia and South Carolina
– known for their high calorific
culinary delights – was a form of
torture.
“Working out is fun, especially
when you can do it with buddies,
but it's the dieting that sucks.
No cake. But it's really good
motivation knowing you’re about
to get butt naked in front of
thousands of people and then
more than that, because it's
going to be on screens all
over the world,” says
Tatum, who looked
to Manganiello to be
the cheerleader in
the gym. “Joe enjoys
working out more
than anyone else on
this planet.”
If one thing really
chafed on XXL, it was
the thongs. “Right before
I have to get in a thong,
I ask myself: Why did I want to do
this movie again?" notes Tatum.
"It doesn’t matter how cool you
are on stage – as soon as you
get into a thong, it knocks the
cool right out of you. I’d hoped
we wouldn’t do thongs this time
round because most of the actual
male revues use boxer briefs or
tightie whities.”
As proud as he is of his
manhood, Manganiello is no
fan of the thong either. “I
was actually quite angry
when I found out,
post-Magic Mike,
that apparently
no-one has worn
a thong since the
80s.” Gill Pringle
All good things must come
to an end, and Glee is no
exception to that. Grieving Gleeks
can now get their hands on the
DVD of the sixth and final season,
where they'll discover insightful
featurettes including Glee: The
Final Curtain - An Inside Look at
the Glee Series Finale, “Looking
Back” Video Yearbook, and a Glee
Music jukebox. And for diehard
Gleekstars, there’s a limited edition
box set featuring all six seasons –
get ready to binge-watch all over
again, and don’t stop believin’. In
the final season of the high school
musical, club favourites Rachel
(Lea Michele) and Kurt (Chris
Colfer) return to McKinley High
and set out to revitalise the New
Directions. Moreover, Principal
Sue Sylvester (Jane Lynch) has
taken it upon herself to quash the
arts – especially the Glee club –
and it’s up to Kurt and Rachel to
reinvigorate the students’ jazz and
claim the national title.
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win an OFFICIAL McKinley High
Football Jersey – see page 18
Glee: The Final Season and Glee:
The Complete Series are out now
on DVD from JB Hi-Fi
Bill Murray comedy classic
Groundhog Day is among
the latest additions to JB Hi-Fi’s
exclusive collection of Blu-ray
catalogue reissues.
Due out on July 16, the
celebrated comedy from the late
Harold Ramis stars Murray as an
obnoxious weatherman who gets
trapped in nightmarish time loop
while on assignment in a sleepy
small town: every morning he
wakes up, it’s Groundhog Day!
The 1993 hit – which co-stars
Andie MacDowell – remains one
of Murray’s best movies and is a
must-have addition to your High-
Def collection.
Murray also provides a
memorable supporting turn in
another JB Blu-ray exclusive out
on July 16: the 1982 comedy
Tootsie, in which Dustin
Hoffman plays a struggling
actor who frocks up to land
a female role on a soap
opera. Murray stars as his
playwright roommate, while
Jessica Lange received the
Best Supporting Actress
Oscar for playing his soap
co-star and love interest.
JB Hi-Fi’s July collection
of Blu-ray exclusives is
completed by another essential
classic – Rob Reiner’s touching
coming-of-age drama Stand By
Me (1986). Based on a Stephen
King novella, the film follows four
young boys who set out to find
the body of a kid hit by a train.
The young cast is headed by
River Phoenix, Will Wheaton,
Corey Feldman, and an almost
unrecognisable (and chubby)
Jerry O’Connell, with Richard
Dreyfuss as an older version
of Wheaton’s character and
Kiefer Sutherland as a nasty
teenaged gang leader. The
huge success of Stand By Me
also resulted in the late Ben
E. King’s signature song climbing
to the top of the charts again.
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Checking out the billboards for Magic Mike XXL, it’s easy to jump to conclusions
given the close-up on the bulging underpants and suggestive “Coming Soon” tease.
Magic Mike XXL is
in cinemas on July 9 and
reviewed on page 26