‘Magic Mike’ lap dance was ‘physically challenging’

Salma Hayek opens up about her steamy scenes with Channing Tatum on “Magic Mike’s Last Dance.”

trailer for Third and final installment “Magic Mike” featured a sexy lap dance scene with Hayek, 56, and Tatum, 42 — and Hayek talked about how it was filmed.

“It’s quite a physical challenge,” said the Oscar-nominated star. Entertainment tonight. “God. You’re just waiting to see. It’s just complicated.”

The Frida actress said it was a “magical moment” that made her “remember who I really am”.

Hayek – who took over the role from Thandwe Newton She gave an insight into her character and how she was on set.

“I play a strong woman,” she told Antonio Banderas while promoting their upcoming movie. Puss in Boots: The Last Wish.

“You know what my day was like going into the office? I’d just sit and watch, like 12 guys, dance semi-naked and spin.” Hayek exclaimed, and he kept going.

“Poor, poor girl,” Banderas, 62, joked with Hayek, and said he would have made a great cameo in the movie.

He would. Hayek replied. “He’s a really good dancer, Antonio.”

While the lap dance scene may be “complicated,” Hayek has previously praised Tatum for his dancing.

“If you think he can dance [before]You’ll Realize You Didn’t See Nothing, ‘House of Gucci’ Star people said in August.

His dancing skills He just got better,” she added.

In the third film in the series directed by Steven Soderbergh, Tatum’s Mike Lane is left as a bartender in a Florida bar after a failed business deal. He contacts a wealthy socialite (Hayek) who takes him to London with an offer to headline a dance show.

Tatum has people said He wants the movie to be the “Super Bowl of stripping.”

The film also stars Ayub Khan Dean, Gavin Spokes, Caitlin Gerrard, Juliette Motamed, Jamelia George and Vicky Pepperdine.

“Magic Mike’s Last Dance” is scheduled to hit theaters on February 10, 2023.