Thandiwe Newton’s camp is denying experiences that she left the third installment of the “Magic Mike” trilogy over a disagreement with Channing Tatum, the movie’s star and producer.
The “Westworld” actor, who was set to co-star with Tatum within the forthcoming stripper saga “Magic Mike’s Final Dance,” reportedly exited the Warner Bros. movie after capturing for 11 days in London.
“Thandiwe Newton has made the tough choice to step away from the manufacturing of Warner Bros Footage’ Magic Mike’s Final Dance to cope with household issues,” a spokesperson for Warner Bros. stated in a press release Wednesday.
However a report within the Solar that very same day claimed that she and Tatum, whose youth as a stripper the “Magic Mike” motion pictures are based mostly on, had fallen out final week when discussing Will Smith slapping comic Chris Rock on the Oscars. The British tabloid additionally claimed that Newtown had been fired.
That prompted representatives for the “God’s Nation” star to reply to the experiences, calling them “fully inaccurate,” the Guardian and the Each day Mail reported.
Newton‘s reps didn't instantly reply Thursday to The Occasions’ requests for remark.
Oscar winner and “The Eternals” star Salma Hayek has changed Newton within the Steven Soderbergh-directed movie, which is being made solely for Warner Bros.’ streaming arm HBO Max.
Soderbergh returns to the franchise after directing the 2012 hit “Magic Mike” and passing the 2015 sequel “Magic Mike XXL” to director Gregory Jacobs. Reid Carolin can be again as a screenwriter and is producing the movie with Jacobs, Nick Wechsler and Peter Kiernan.
Plot particulars have been underneath wraps, however Tatum has beforehand described the third installment as “the Tremendous Bowl of stripping” and that it will function dancers from a number of genres. In February, the “Canine” and “Step Up” star additionally advised Folks that it’s vital that the movie have a well-written lead feminine character.
“I need to have an equal, if not much more centralized feminine character for Mike to actually play off of and nearly to,” he advised the journal. “I don’t need to say, [to have her] take the baton, however actually let the film be a few feminine’s expertise and never Mike’s expertise, as a result of it has been a lot about Mike and the fellows’ experiences. These motion pictures are very, very female-forward. At the least that's our intention.”
Newton, who has starred in “Crash,” “ER,” “The Slap” and “Line of Obligation” as Thandie Newton, made headlines final yr for reverting to the Zimbabwean spelling of her stage title after going by Thandie professionally for years. Her full title is Melanie Thandiwe Newton, and Thandiwe is pronounced “tan-DEE-way.”
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