“After the row he just went, ‘I am not working with her anymore.’ Him being a producer, it’s his movie, so she’s off the movie,” the source told the Sun.ĭirector Steven Soderbergh tried to defuse the situation to no avail, the source reportedly said. Producers decided to recast Thandiwe Newton’s lead female role to be played by Salma Hayek, according to Variety. Channing got into this car and he disappeared,” the source reportedly said, adding that Newton behaved like a “diva” on the set before the argument.įollowing the dispute, Tatum, who plays Magic Mike, refused to continue working with Newton on the HBO Max film. “It was a tense exchange of words, but suddenly it escalated. They were in and out of the house where we were filming having this confrontation. “They fell out over the debacle at the Oscars. But 11 days into shooting and it’s all over,” a crew member told the British tabloid. “Channing Tatum is the producer and number one on set. The altercation escalated to a very high level that caused Channing Tatum to drive off in a car and leave the set of “Magic Mike’s Last Dance.” Click News and Media / BACKGRID It was unclear from the Sun’s report exactly when the epic dust-up occurred, or what positions Newton and Tatum took in their heated debate. Producers of the sequel ultimately decided to recast Newton’s lead female role, which will now be played by Salma Hayek, according to Variety. The crew had been filming for 11 days before the dramatic turn of events, the report said.
The feud between Newton, 49, and Tatum, 41, occurred in early April, the Sun reported, and escalated to such “astonishing” and “unimaginably vicious” levels that Tatum stormed off the West London set of “ Magic Mike’s Last Dance” and drove off in a car.
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Thandiwe Newton was reportedly fired from the new “Magic Mike” movie after getting into a heated argument on set with Channing Tatum about Will Smith’s infamous Oscars smackdown of Chris Rock.
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