February 7, 2012

Channing Tatum does SNL

Channing Tatum shirtless on Saturday Night Live

This past weekend, the very sexy Channing Tatum hosted Saturday Night Live, and of course he got a chance to promote his upcoming stripper movie, Magic Mike.

Tatum actually has a very real background as a male exotic dancer, and it was his personal experience that became the fodder for the movie, not to mention the entire episode of SNL.

“We were sitting over a beer and I told [Steven Soderbergh] that I was a stripper for eight months when I was nineteen,” Tatum said. “And he said that would be a great movie. And I said, ‘well I want to make a movie out of it.’ And he said, ‘you should write it.’

"Cut to three or four months later, I read an interview where he said that he would be willing to direct. I called him up and said, ‘how much bullshit is in this article?’ He was like, ‘I’m as serious as a bone spur, we should sit down.’ And we sat down…at Carney’s over a hot dog ironically enough. And we decided to do it.”

He got a chance to talk about his stripper past in the opening monologue. Check it out after the jump ...

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