Channing Tatum was 'fat' when he started Magic Mike XXL
Channing Tatum was "super fat" when he started filming 'Magic Mike XXL'.
The 35-year-old actor - who has two-year-old daughter Everly with wife Jenna Dewan-Tatum - spent over four months training and a month on a diet to shed the pounds to get in shape for the stripper sequel.
He said: "I was super fat when I started. It was daddy fat. Actually, it was every kind of fat.
"I haven't eaten for four days!"
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Though Channing resumes his role as the titular stripper in the movie, he insists the plot is very different to the first 'Magic Mike'.
He said: "I'd call it a lot more fun and probably a little less dark."
And if there is ever a third movie in the saga, Channing thinks that one will be different too.
He said: "If we do another one, it will be someone gets kidnapped and we turn it into an action movie."
The movies are based on the '22 Jump Street' star's own experiences as a stripper, and though he enjoyed "going back in time" in a "controlled" way, he has no desire to revisit those days for real.
He told Grazia magazine: "I don't know if I understood anything when I was 19. I don't know if I learned anything profound.
"You can look back on the crazy times and think, 'That was insane!'
"I like that I got out unscathed for the most part. But I don't want to go back. I like the controlled going back in time."
