Channing Tatum Sports a Buzz Cut in First Photo from London Set of Magic Mike’s Last Dance

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Channing Tatum is prepared for his near-up.

The Magic Mike star, 41, was photographed sporting a shaved head Thursday on the London established of Magic Mike’s Last Dance, the third installment of his male stripper motion picture franchise.

Tatum donned a denim hoodie with plaid lining in excess of a blue printed t-shirt from Biffle’s Smokehouse BBQ in Missouri paired with brown pants as he walked to set with masked crew members.

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Though Tatum went for a close shave over the neck, he earlier discovered that he is going for a extra organic overall body hair glance this time close to. “I’m not going to do waxing this time,” he explained Friday on The Ellen DeGeneres Exhibit.

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“I imagine we’re going to transform with the occasions. You don’t need to have to naked and… appear like a Chinese Crested hairless cat or anything to be attractive any longer,” Tatum claimed. “Which is type of a detail of the old.”

The former stripper instructed People today past month that he programs to make “the Tremendous Bowl of stripping” with Magic Mike’s Past Dance, which he declared in November will premiere on HBO Max.

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“I want dancing like we’ve in no way been capable to do in the other two motion pictures, since we had to be genuine to what the actuality of that world is, which isn’t really terrific dancing,” he explained, adding: “We are heading to go off. I’m so sore suitable now because I [have been] in [choreographer Alison Faulk’s] garage with a Dexter-style situation that you men will all know about eventually, when the movie’s out. You will know why it appeared like Dexter in her garage.”

The to start with Magic Mike premiered in 2012, loosely centered on Tatum’s individual practical experience as an 18-yr-outdated stripper in Tampa, Florida. The film grossed additional than $167 million worldwide, adopted by the 2015 sequel Magic Mike XXL.

The franchise also led to a London phase musical Magic Mike Stay and an HBO Max competitiveness collection Acquiring Magic Mike.