Looking for a hot Valentine’s Day movie? Look no further than Channing Tatum and Salma Hayek Pinault in the conclusion of the steamy and successful Magic Mike franchise. Warner Bros, has released the final trailer for Magic Mike’s Last Dance.
Ten years after Magic Mike surprised audiences, star Channing Tatum and the original filmmaking team have reunited—this time in Miami and London— to catch up with Mike Lane. Director Steven Soderbergh is back at the helm, with producer and writer Reid Carolin returning to pen the script, which introduces a steamy new love interest for Mike, played by Salma Hayek Pinault.
The story finds Mike in Miami at loose ends and with empty pockets, having closed his furniture business. Taking bartending gigs, however, proves fortuitous when he meets a mysterious woman, Maxandra Mendoza, who, after a night of getting to know each other, presents Mike with an opportunity he can’t refuse— one that could change him, and his life, forever.
Hayek Pinault shared the trailer on her Instagram page that teased the couple’s bedroom scene. Wearing a silky, hot-pink jumpsuit, Hayek gets into a little sumthin’ sumthin’ when she blindfolds Mike while showing off her flexible body.
Maxandra: Do you like bartending?
Mike: It’s not really what I do…
Maxandra: What is it that you really do?
She wrapped her legs around his waist, facing outwards, while she leaned back and made out with him — talk about a sexy scene! Watch below:
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Soderbergh comments, “What we’ve done with these films, this one especially, is give audiences all the pure fun of watching these amazingly talented dancers perform, but also used dance as a sort of Trojan horse to sneak in other ideas.”
Tatum, who also serves as a producer, observes, “The first movie was about Mike realizing, ‘I need to figure out what I’m doing with my life.’ The second one put these guys on a pedestal and let them flesh out their characters, but it was still really about these men. Since then, women in films have become more open, more conversational about what they want, and we’d also created the live show. What we learned doing that made us want to make this third movie and to really redesign what Magic Mike is. We wanted to put the best dancers in the world in the movie, and have a strong female lead who is pivotal to the story and as important as Mike in the plot.”
Hayek Pinault was excited to sign on, having observed the unexpected similarities between her character and Mike. “Maxandra meets Mike in a moment where she, too, feels a little bit lost. It happens out of the blue, and she does something out of character, just once, she thinks, because she’s going through so much in her life. But something happens to her, and she gets inspired by him; he reminds her of a part of her she had lost, and he gives her the strength to explore another side of herself.”
Magic Mike’s Last Dance slides into theaters only in North America on February 10, 2023 and internationally beginning 8 February 2023, and will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures.
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