![]() “You’re getting free drinks…people are buying you drinks…the next day you might need a little pick-me-up…” This was more like Magic Mike, he says, and the lifestyle was one of constant alcohol and drugs. Before Weber joined Aussie Heat he was a go-go dancer, strutting his stuff in his underwear on platforms in LA bars and clubs. There aren’t many dramas.īut the films, based on Tatum’s real experience as a stripper himself, do conjure up a sense of some aspects of that world. “We’re not busting out strip scenes on a bus in front of an old lady.” Backstage he and his fellow dancers talk about working out and anime. “I go to Starbucks every day like everyone else does,” he says. What does the reality of being a male stripper look like? It’s not as dramatic as Magic Mike makes it out to be, says 33-year-old Quinn Weber, who performs in a Las Vegas show called Aussie Heat. Before Magic Mike, says Darrell, being in good physical shape was enough now, as the third and final film hits cinemas, dancers are expected to juggle multiple balls, as it were, each bringing a unique skill or style to the show. Audiences expected more from male dancers. The Magic Mike phenomenon capitalised on an obvious demand, converting the film into live shows in the US and the UK, sending (largely female) audiences into a frenzy. The third film in the series, Magic Mike's Last Dance, has so far made almost $40 million in two weeks of release. Channing Tatum’s 2012 film, directed by Steven Soderbergh, was made on a modest budget and made $160 million in profit. ![]() Suddenly, there was a huge audience, ready to be turned on. Only a year before this, the book Fifty Shades of Grey had achieved something similar in platforming female desire. By that point, Magic Mike had shaken the foundations of a much-mocked industry, bringing male stripping into the mainstream conversation. He was on tour as a dancer with Rita Ora when he saw an opportunity in the world of male stripping: he thought that audiences were “hungry for more entertainment and to have a sexual awakening”. It’s not about us loving ourselves any more.”ĭarrell, 38, is a stripper, and the “us” he’s talking about are Dreamboys, a group of male performers with whom he’s been stripping for the last eight years. It’s the storytelling it’s the music it’s the choreography and then almost the cherry on top is sexy boys. “No one wants to see a man in a thong nowadays,” says Jordan Darrell.
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