Magic Mike Live Founder Channing Tatum and Choreographer

Alison Faulk are Joined by the Magic Mike Dancers

Half His Age Author Jennette McCurdy

Air Date: Friday, January 23^rd   

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Drew Gifts Channing Tatum a Swear Jar for Everly Since She Refuses to Swear

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Drew: Is it true also that Everly, your daughter, is not a swearer?

Channing: She, I can't pay her to cuss. Like I've tried. I've, I'm like she just won't do it. I think I cuss so much that she's like, she's just like, no, I'm not doing it. I've been like, look, Taylor Swift says it in the song, just sing it in the song. I want her to cuss so bad, and I think because I want her to cuss so bad she won't do it.

Drew: OK, this is an interesting tactic for a parent to take. Well, I did, I got you a swear jar for her and then it also.

Channing: Mother of pancakes, son of a monkey's uncle. I like that one. That one's my favorite.

Drew: It's just some options for her.

 

Drew & Channing on Their Kids Wanting to Act and Their Approach to It

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Drew: We were actually talking about like the informality of how we both got into our professions that neither of us studied, you know, professional dancing.

Channing: I actually didn't know that you didn't take acting class. I thought you would have been like, you know, because you grew up in LA, right?

Drew: Yeah.

Channing: You just got it by osmosis just by being around it.

Drew: Well, in a weird way, I tell my kids all the time because they, they want to do this too. I'm just trying to scaffold them into it at appropriate ages. What would you do if Everly said this is what I wanna do with my life?

Channing: Yeah, me and her mom, we actually made this decision pretty early. If she wants to act, she can like take acting class, she can act, she can do the, the act of acting and learn it, but to do like actual jobs where she can be 18, like, I think she needs to have a life and be an adult to be able to make the decisions. I really think that's one of the best things that I ever did.

I had a full life. I started acting at 24, like, so it was, I had a like real, real full life. I mean I was, I was an actual stripper. I mean you get real life experiences.

 

Channing Tatum on Being a Stripper at 18

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Drew: What is it like being a stripper, may I ask?

Channing: I'm not gonna lie, it's weird and back then it was even, it, it was a different kind than we're doing now.

Drew: So it's surreal.

Channing: It was, it was, you know, I mean, I was 18 and just kind of looking to go, go a little crazy, you know, I was looking for the, the wild time, and I found it, and it was, yeah, I mean you, you go out and I don't know, you get on somebody that you don't know, and it's fun until somebody's like, oh, you remind me of my nephew, and you're like, what? You're like, OK, can I have the dollar now? I'm like I'm moving on.

Drew: I was in, I used to go to strip clubs for pleasure and I just was like, you know, I was a, I was like a weird chick, you know and I remember Cameron and Lucy. I was one night in Vegas and my two fellow angels, I was sitting in a thing and they came out and they're like, it took us 5 strip clubs to find you. Get up, it's 3 in the morning. You’ve had too many.

Channing: I wish we got to hang out when we were younger. That would have been so much fun.

Drew: I know, by the way, I know, I'm telling you I think we are cut from such a similar cloth, and yet here we are parents.

Channing: We're professionals now we're professionals. Hold it together, we have to hold it together. You can't have fun and be professional.

 

Channing and Alison on How Magic Mike Live Came To Be and What They Look For with Dancers

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Drew: When does it come to you guys as far as like deciding, let's take this beyond that. Where did that spark come from?

Channing: Well, after we made the first film, somebody like made a joke that they were like you need to do a, you need to actually make a club or a show, and I was like absolutely not. And then, Reed's partner, my, the guy that wrote ‘Magic Mike’ he's my creative partner, his partner went to Vegas for a bachelorette party and they went to one of the other shows, and she came back and she's like, that's it, you guys have to make a show because that was embarrassing.

I feel weird that I even went. I feel gross that I went and then we're like, alright, well let's just go change what the actual genre is or whatever male entertainment is or actually female entertainment and because it, that's what it felt like, it felt like it was when you go to those other shows, it feels like it's more for the men like that are dancing than it is actually for the women, and we wanted to make a show that's completely the opposite and, and just kind of change a, a genre completely. We've also found men that just are sweethearts. They're just absolute sweethearts. We do an interview. We do ask them what their relationship is with their mother. Like we're like we, it is, it is a real thing that we had to do because we've not hired some of the best dancers that we've ever seen because the vibe was off.

Alison: Because you can't put, you can't put him in like, you can't put a guy without a good heart in that environment otherwise some crazy stuff could happen.

 

Drew Reveals The Effect Jennette McCurdy’s New Book Had on Her

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Drew: Some of the things that I think as this female character Waldo, I think she, there feels like there's a permission and a license to sometimes speak the way I think dudes have zero problem talking. And I feel like you fly free in this without those constraints.

Jennette: I love talking about sex. I'm ready to go. I'm locked and loaded. No, I do think, I feel like sex so often when I see it sort of written or, you know, in film or TV or in books, it can be one of two things where it's really romanticized and it's completely unrealistic. Everybody's talking about like his manhood, it sounds disgusting. I don't want his manhood anywhere near me, that's gross, or it's like, or it can be really kind of performatively quirky, where people are like bumping into lamps and knocking things over, which is not true either because I think, I think whenever people have sex, whenever I've had sex, I'm trying to be sexy, maybe I'm not pulling it off, but I'm trying, I'm not trying to be quirky, nobody wants quirk in the bedroom.

Drew: Oh god, this might explain my sex life. I think I'm all quirk.

Jennette: Are you bumping into things?

Drew: It's been so long I don't really remember what I did, but this really woke me up because you speak about this area in a woman's body down there. And you reminded me of what it feels like to be alive, the female realization of I am into you and it is physical and you write it so perfectly, hello. I'm here I still work. You're such an amazing writer. The way that you write about sex is, it's such a turn on, and I don't feel like I read women writing about women the way you, master craftly did it.

Jennette: Thank you, that is so nice.

 

Jennette’s Advice For Drew When It Comes To Trust

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Drew: It's truly one of the most important pieces that this show has ever done is our conversation. It's still relevant, it's still watched, and, you know, we talked about the deepest stuff there I would say when I think about relationships and I get triggered, it's because the word trust comes up.

Jennette: Wow, I just got chills.

Drew: And so that you're saying you can trust him as someone I talk about the gnarliest stuff with, how do you know how to trust and, and is there any advice you have for me on what to look for or what to stop saying to myself or how to even find that trust, and I know it's gonna be about the other person too. It's not just you. You’re doing a tango with someone else, but.

Jennette: I feel like trust has to be earned, to your point, from both sides, and I do feel like it's something that comes with time. It always shocks me when somebody's like, you know, saying that they're, they've met the love of their life and they've been with them for like a month and a half or something. It's like, how can you possibly know at that point? I do think it takes time. And I think you know it's the old cliche, but actions do speak louder than words, so as much as somebody's saying the right things, you really know back to the woman's intuition, you really know based on what their actions are and how they're treating you and whether they're following through on promises and hopefully you're doing the same thing, but your intuition knows.