http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/assessment/2015/06/magic_mike_xxl_and_channing_tatum_a_great_dancer_and_physical_actor.html

“When shit’s not going your way, getting a little crazy with some random friends can help you sort out your shit.” This sage advice, dispensed in Magic Mike XXL by construction worker–turned-stripper-turned–furniture-maker Mike Lane, sounds curiously profound coming from the mouth of 35-year-old construction worker–turned–perfume salesman-turned-stripper-turned-model-turned–movie star Channing Tatum. Magic Mike XXL, the sequel to Steven Soderbergh’s 2012 summer hit Magic Mike, is the ultimate cinematic expression to date of that it’s-all-good-bro Channing Tatum ethos. Tatum’s career—which keeps getting more surprising, and more promising, with each new movie—has been built on gradually coming to embody that “random friend,” a down-to-earth, caring goofball with whom both audiences and his fellow actors can feel free to “get crazy” and play.