STACK #132 Oct 2016

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with CHANNINGTATUM & REID CAROLIN .

crazy. They’re just these kind of loveable screw-ups, in a way, who are really just trying to get on with life and have a blast. They’re still kind of hilarious and ridiculous. I think that’s how my friends and I are. Even when things are going crazy, we’re all sitting around laughing at each other. If something bad has just happened to our buddy, we don’t just let each other wallow in the crap of it all. We start poking fun at it, and that’s the only way we can get through it. So that’s what these guys do. Do you each have a favorite scene or moment during production that was particularly funny or memorable? RC: Well, my favorite moment was just when I laughed the most. It was Kevin Nash. [Laughs] His character resides in the shadows of the movie, but he’s in pretty much every scene. He falls in the background of everything that’s going on in the movie, so you can’t really pay attention to him. But every joke that he says brings me to tears somehow because of the way he delivers it. There’s a moment where all that sort of comes to fruition and crescendos. He’s in this plantation house with these well-to-do women. And all the guys are trying to hook up with the various young women that they’ve come there to meet. He’s sort of left on the outs. [Laughs] And he’s sitting there, this tatted out wrestler with a lion’s mane and a tank top, with a glass of wine. And these women are like, ‘Man, I wish that we had people like you back in our day. I wish we played the field. I wish we were just more free with our sexuality.’ And he just decides to tell these women, ‘You know, I have had as good of a run as anyone. I’ve engaged a lot of women, and I’d give anything to come home to a wife and kids that love me and a home…’ [Laughs] It kills me every time because it’s just so honest and real, and nobody knows how to react to it. CT: No one knows him.

and to join the fold of men that he wrote a movie about. RC: Men who have been training to get in thongs for months and months. CT: I don’t care. That’s not the point. [Laughs] Look, it always seems like a good idea until you actually have to go out on stage in a thong. Then you get out there and you’re thinking, ‘What am I doing? Why did I want to do this? This is a terrible idea.’ Every single time. I mean, every night when I was actually stripping, that was my least favorite part because you just go out there, you rip your pants off, and you’re just standing there in a thong. It doesn’t matter what moves you do or how cool you are, you are not cool anymore. Yeah, the girls are cheering, but they’re kind of like laughing at the same time. It’s already uncomfortable. [Laughs] In the movie, the guy are going out on this one last ride, and you know it will all end with everybody being embarrassed onstage in thongs. But the reason you do it is because of the guys—that’s what this movie is about. These guys

RC: We call himTarzan. He’s just this mysterious, hulking man always around that says these amazing one-liners. CT: There’s a whole movie around him. RC: Oh, completely. It’s basically if Mickey Rourke from The Wrestler became a stripper and then never bothered to tell his friends the journey that he had been on up until that point. [Laughs] And nobody cares to ask. CT: Because they’re strippers and they’re all just right there. I wanted to ask about shooting in front of an audience. What is that like? What is that energy like to perform in front of a huge crowd? CT: I challenged Reid to get onstage in a thong as retribution for a few things It’s basically if Mickey Rourke from The Wrestler became a stripper and then never bothered to tell his friends the journey that he had been on up until that point.

like walking on the edge and basically knowing that it is there. But they all love each other. No one will let each other completely fall off, and you end up loving them for that.

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