Writer and producer Reid Carolin had doubts about making a Magic Mike sequel, but as he exclusively told TEN, he knew it was something he had to do.
"I actually thought there was no way we should make a sequel. What we realised was, the first thing that Channing [Tatum] told me when we started to write the first movie, he wanted to make a movie based on his time as a dancer, but he wanted to tell the story of him driving up with all of his buddies in a U-Haul to a stripping convention," he said.
"We couldn't figure out a way to put it in the first movie, so I just said 'nah, it's a whole movie in itself'.
"When the first movie came out and it was such a success, I thought 'leave it alone and let's not make a sequel.' Then it all came to us that we had never told the other story and we have to do it."
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Read Laura Delaney's Magic Mike XXL review here.
