“It wasn├óΓé¼Γäót in the script, but Soderbergh said in the beginning that if it felt right, I could strip at the end of the movie. I said, ‘I gotta dance, man.’ I would regret it for the rest of my life if I was in a male stripper movie and didn├óΓé¼Γäót get up there and strip myself. …At first it was scary as hell, but then it became like a drug, and I couldn├óΓé¼Γäót wait to do it again. Look, I love to dance, but I├óΓé¼Γäóve never been a stripper. Channing├óΓé¼Γäós one of the best hip-hop street dancers I├óΓé¼Γäóve ever seen, and I didn├óΓé¼Γäót want to challenge his style, so I worked on my own strengths. I also knew that my dance had to be the dirtiest. It had to be wonderfully filthy. That├óΓé¼Γäós all me up there. I don├óΓé¼Γäót need a stunt ass.”
– Matthew McConaughey, on his Magic Mike strip scene, to The Advocate
