If you're going back for one last ride, you better make it count. Steven Soderbergh teased that in his return as director of "Magic Mike's Last Dance," the film will go to great lengths to end with a massive dance sequence that exceeds half an hour. That's a lot of skin.
“We wanted to blow up the dance big,” Soderbergh said in a new interview with Empire magazine on Wednesday. “We have this dance number with Channing [Tatum] and Salma [Hayek] leading it. And then the last 30+ minutes of the movie is just this giant dance sequence."
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Writer: Reid Carolin
Stars: Salma Hayek, Channing Tatum, Caitlin Gerard
Soderbergh added that the sequence in question was filmed in an old South London theater called Chapman Grand, allowing him to stretch his experimentation - perhaps a good reason he was willing to return for "Last Dance" after putting aside "Magic Mike XXL". .” And the way Soderbergh describes it, you'd think he was remaking “An American in Paris,” which helps when you have a modern-day Gene Kelly like Channing Tatum who can do anything with his legs.
“My job is, how do I make each of these different? I can't photograph them all in the same way, I have to come up with a different approach to each dance. And that was really the challenge,” Soderbergh said. "That was fun, there's not a bad angle there."
Soderbergh also hinted at some of the themes of the third film in the "Magic Mike" franchise, saying that in addition to Mike putting on a massive show at a legendary London theater, it's also the first time Mike has been seen in a serious relationship. .
“The first film was a fairly straightforward interpretation of a set of characters that exist in a set environment that hasn't changed since its inception. And the second movie was trying a little bit to talk about what women look for in a night out where fantasies and sexuality are explored, and how you retain a sense of mystery, while still existing in an environment where that things like permission and consent are front and center?” Soderbergh said. “The third movie really dives into this in a much broader way, partly because for the first time we see Mike in a relationship. That just allows for a dynamic and a set of discussions that we haven't had access to before 'Magic Mike's Last Dance.'"
"Magic Mike's Last Dance" opens in theaters on February 10, 2023.
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