As a gay man, we’re sure Matt Bomer knows a little about primping (and looking at him, it’s tough to believe that incredible face and physique doesn’t take a strict beauty and gym regimen), but it appears for his role as a male stripper in Magic Mike, things went to the extreme.
He’s been talking to People, and telling them that if you’re going to wander round in a g-string and be true to the male stripper experience, body hair has got to be pretty much banished – including from the nether regions – and the same was true for Channing Tatum, Matthew McConaughey, Joe Manganiello and the film’s other stars! “We all had to go there,” Bomer says. “I’m not going to say it was fun, and personally I will never do it again, but for that project it was necessary. We were all in the boat together.”
“What was important to me was to tell the story authentically,” he adds, “and I wanted to reflect what the dancers in real life do. And that’s part of their job.”
They also knew that playing a male stripper was a bit of a risk. Bomer says of this, “It was us against the world. But in a lot of ways, that was the mentality of a lot of exotic dancers I talked to. It’s a profession that’s not widely accepted by the general populace, so even though they raz each other and it is a sort of locker room environment, they help each other out and look out for each other, and I feel like that’s something we picked up on.”
BGPS has already seen the movie and we’ll be bringing you our review soon (as soon as the embargo is lifted), so we can let you know it it lives up to the fun and saucy promise of the recent NSFW Magic Mike promo. The film hits UK cinemas on July 11th.
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