Newton said she left the film after 11 days of filming in London of her own free will. “Thandiwe Newton has made the difficult decision to step down from the production of Warner Bros. Pictures’ Magic Mike’s Last Dance to deal with family matters,” a spokesman said in a statement. The actor’s representatives called the reports that he was fired by Tatum, who is also a producer in the film, “completely inaccurate”. The report, which first appeared on the Sun, showed that Tatum and Newton had a fight when they discussed the incident at the Oscars last month, where Smith slapped Chris Rock on stage after a joke about alopecia. of his wife. A source described the dispute as a “confrontation” and added that Tatum had said: “I am no longer working with her.” Salma Hayek will take on the role of Newton. Magic Mike’s Last Dance returns for Tatum as male stripper Mike Lane, as well as a return to the franchise for the original director, Steven Soderbergh, who left for the second film. The two films have grossed over $ 300 million worldwide. A lucrative spin-off scene, Magic Mike Live, featured performances in Las Vegas, London, Berlin and Australia. Speaking to People magazine, Tatum expressed hope that the new film would be like “Super Bowl of stripping”, with a much higher quality routine than before. He also described the films as “very, very female-forward” and stressed the importance of having a strong female protagonist. “I want to have an equal, if not even more central female character for Mike to play really far and almost… I do not want to say, [to have her] take the baton, but really let the film be about a woman’s experience and not Mike’s experience, because it was so much about Mike and the men’s experiences. “
