It Takes More Than Muscle Behind the scenes with Magic Mike Live Las Vegas dancer Ryan Carlson
By Camille Cannon Photography Krystal Ramirez
“Hold back, daddy,” says Channing Tatum,
who is onstage in a T-shirt, sweatpants and backward cap inside a venue once home to Hard Rock Hotel & Casino’s Body English nightclub. The space has been reimagined as Club Domina, the fictional cabaret at the center of the film Magic Mike XXL. Tatum has just offered those tender words of advice to Ryan Carlson, one of 13 professional male dancers in Magic Mike Live Las Vegas, a semi-scripted dance revue billed with the promise of “women’s empowerment.”
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