On Tuesday, the first trailer for Magic Mike’s Last Dance has hit the internet, with Channing Tatum, 42, reprising his role in the third installment.
The new entry also stars Salma Hayek, who replaces Thandiwe Newton. Steven Soderbergh, who directed the 2012 original but not the 2015 XXL sequel, returns to helm Last Dance.
In the trailer, Tatum’s Mike Lane, now a broke bartender, and Hayek’s socialite character strike up a romance and set out to put on an epic stage show together in London. She says at one point, “I want every woman who walks into this theater to feel that a woman can have whatever she wants whenever she wants.”
Here's what Tatum told PEOPLE back in February about his goals for the new movie: “I want dancing like we’ve never been able to do in the other two movies, because we had to be honest to what the reality of that world is, which isn’t great dancing.”
Additionally, Tatum felt it was important for Last Dance to have a well-written female lead.
“I want to have an equal, if not even more centralized female character for Mike to really play off of and almost to,” he explains. “I don’t want to say, [to have her] take the baton, but really let the movie be about a female’s experience and not Mike’s experience, because it has been so much about Mike and the guys’ experiences. These movies are very, very female-forward. At least that is our intention.”
Along with Tatum and Hayek, the film’s cast also includes Gavin Spokes, Caitlin Gerard, Christopher Bencomo, Ayub Khan-Din and Juliette Motamed. Reid Carolin wrote the script, while Soderbergh returns to the series as director, after Gregory Jacobs helmed “XXL.”
“Magic Mike’s Last Dance” premieres in theaters on Feb. 10, 2023.
Check out the trailer below.
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