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"Magic Mike&amp;amp;#8217;s Channing Tatum talks marriage, movie stardom, and what it was like to take his pants off for money. Channing Tatum is excellent at getting naked. If you somehow missed the grainy YouTube video of him dancing around in a thong and socks at age 19 (google it!), you can see the updated, big-screen version in this month&amp;amp;#8217;s Magic Mike, a film based loosely on the now 32-year-old&amp;amp;#8217;s real-life stripping experiences (he&amp;amp;#8217;s a producer of the movie). Tatum has danced on film before&amp;amp;mdash;in 2006&amp;amp;#8217;s Step Up&amp;amp;mdash;but 2012 has been the year of everything Channing: his action flick Haywire, his romance The Vow, his comedy 21 Jump Street, his sequel to G.I. Joe, and, of course, Magic Mike. The squinty-eyed hunk of the moment took a break, put on a shirt, and spoke to Glamour. GLAMOUR: How much of Magic Mike is based on your actual life? CHANNING TATUM: It doesn&amp;amp;#8217;t have much to do with the real me. Yeah, I worked on a construction crew, and I was a 19-year-old kid who stripped, and I have a sister. But that&amp;amp;#8217;s it. GLAMOUR: How was it to film the stripping scenes? CT: Hilarious. Every single guy, from Matthew McConaughey to Matt Bomer to Joe Manganiello, just jumped in and committed. Our choreographer would be like, &amp;amp;#8220;Grab your package!&amp;amp;#8221; You couldn&amp;amp;#8217;t keep a straight face. GLAMOUR: It is very funny. CT: That&amp;amp;#8217;s kind of the whole point of male stripping. You go out and make a fool of yourself. That&amp;amp;#8217;s what girls and women want. It&amp;amp;#8217;s not really sexy. It&amp;amp;#8217;s kind of cheesy. Women are so sultry and sexy, and that&amp;amp;#8217;s why guys go to strippers. But I think girls go to be embarrassed with their friends. GLAMOUR: Have you always danced? CT: I grew up in Florida, which has a huge Spanish population, and there were these quincea?\uFFFDeras every weekend. I got tired of being the tall, skinny white kid standing in the corner. I&amp;amp;#8217;ve always loved moving and music, so I put them together. GLAMOUR: You&amp;amp;#8217;re in five movies this year. Has that been overwhelming? CT: The fun part is making the film; it&amp;amp;#8217;s promoting the movies that&amp;amp;#8217;s overwhelming. But for Magic Mike, we&amp;amp;#8217;re going to do some creative stuff, like put on an actual strip show. GLAMOUR: If you do that, you will actually break the Internet, in a good way. CT: [Laughs.] &amp;amp;#8220;In a good way.&amp;amp;#8221; GLAMOUR: What do you and your wife do for quality time? CT: My wife and I go camping. There are no cell phones, no TV, no iPad, no nothing. We just sit by the campfire, and sip wine or beer, and talk. GLAMOUR: Has being in movies changed how people treat you? CT: I&amp;amp;#8217;m not like Elvis! Nobody&amp;amp;#8217;s crying in front of me. The weirdest thing is when fans come up and hand you their phone and are like, &amp;amp;#8220;Here, talk to my friend.&amp;amp;#8221; GLAMOUR: Who does that? CT: You&amp;amp;#8217;d think it&amp;amp;#8217;s kids, but no, it&amp;amp;#8217;s mainly straight-up 50-year-old women. Next time that happens, I&amp;amp;#8217;m just going to put it in my pocket and walk home. &amp;amp;mdash;Willa Paskin Um, how excited are you for Magic Mike? We can&amp;#x27;t wait! P.S. Want more Obsessed? Sign up for our awesome daily newsletter that features the latest celebrity gossip, TV news, hilarious Internet sensations, and more! More hot men we love... *Magic MikeTrailer (Now With Naked Butts!) *Joey Lawrence Tells Us the One Place He&amp;#x27;ll Never Get Naked And the One Place He Will. He&amp;#x27;s Helpful That Way. *Oooh, We Made a Hot-Guys Playlist! Wanna Listen? Photo: Norman Jean Roy/Trunk"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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