* ActorSharedBackground: Before his acting career, Creator/ChanningTatum was a male stripper like his character.
* AwesomeDearBoy: Creator/MatthewMcConaughey accepted the role within ten minutes when it was offered to him over the phone.
--> "I knew that I was just going to be able to fly."
* ChannelHop: {{Averted|Trope}} with ''Magic Mike's Last Dance''. The film was initially set to release on Creator/HBOMax, like Steven Soderbergh's previous films ''Let Them All Talk'', ''Film/NoSuddenMove'' and ''Film/{{Kimi}}''. However, management shifts following the creation of Creator/WarnerBrosDiscovery resulted in the film being taken back to a theatrical release by Creator/WarnerBros, as with the previous films; this made it Soderbergh's first film released in theaters since ''Film/{{Unsane}}''.
* CreatorBacklash: Creator/ChanningTatum has spoken out against the diet and training regimen actors go through to look good on camera, saying that there's nothing healthy about cutting calories and fluids while working out constantly for months on end.
* DawsonCasting: Lampshaded as Alex Pettyfer is a couple of years older than his character, Mike saying "he doesn't look nineteen". Creator/ChanningTatum was also a couple of years older than Mike, who is said to be thirty.
* DyeingForYourArt:
** Creator/MattBomer had to put on fifteen pounds of muscle to play Ken.
** Creator/MatthewMcConaughey got waxed regularly to prepare.
** The men had to lift weights between takes in order to maintain their physiques.
* FakeAmerican: Creator/AlexPettyfer is British, playing an American teenager.
* HostilityOnTheSet: Creator/ChanningTatum and Creator/AlexPettyfer didn't get along during the first movie[[note]]This was during the year Pettyfer all but destroyed his reputation in Hollywood due to his bad behavior[[/note]], leading to Adam being dropped for the sequel.
* NoBudget: Made for only $6 million, which was financed by Creator/ChanningTatum and Creator/StevenSoderbergh.
* TheOtherMarty: Creator/ThandiweNewton was cast as the female lead in ''Magic Mike's Last Dance'' and had shot some scenes when the role was abruptly recast with Creator/SalmaHayek, who reshot Newton's scenes. [[https://nypost.com/2022/04/14/thandiwe-newton-denies-will-smith-tiff-led-to-magic-mike-firing/ The reasons]] for the recast vary, per Newton it was due to family matters.
* PlayingWithCharacterType: The three male leads - Creator/ChanningTatum, Creator/AlexPettyfer and Creator/MatthewMcConaughey - all were known for being MrFanservice in most of their famous roles. Here they play people who have {{Fanservice}} as they're living - and also shows problems associated with such a lifestyle.
* SequelGap: ''Magic Mike's Last Dance'' came out 7 years after ''XXL''.
* SleeperHit: A low-budget drama about male stripping ended up grossing $167 million worldwide, assuring everyone that Creator/MatthewMcConaughey's CareerResurrection was here and giving Creator/ChanningTatum some SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct reactions.
* ThrowItIn: At one point during Dallas's strip routine, he rolls away from the women grabbing at his crotch. This was a result of the female extras getting too excited and accidentally ripping his G-string. Creator/MatthewMcConaughey just kept on going.
* WagTheDirector: Dallas wasn't scripted to have a stripping scene in the original draft of the script. Creator/MatthewMcConaughey requested to have one, which eventually became the climactic "Ladies of Tampa" sequence.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** Creator/NicolasWindingRefn was originally signed on to direct, handpicked by Creator/ChanningTatum. But he wasn't able due to scheduling conflicts, and Creator/StevenSoderbergh - with whom Tatum was working on ''{{Film/Haywire}}'' - was chosen as a replacement.
** Creator/MatthewMcConaughey had been in talks to reprise his role in the sequel, but his salary had gone up since his Oscar win for ''Film/DallasBuyersClub'' and they couldn't afford him.
** Rome was written for Creator/JamieFoxx, but ended up getting a GenderFlip and played by Creator/JadaPinkett-Smith.
** Creator/JamesMarsden told ''GQ'' that he was offered a role but turned it down because he was worried his lines would be cut and he'd look like "a naked extra."
** Creator/AnthonyMackie said in interviews that he tried and failed to convince his friend Creator/ChanningTatum to give him a role in the film.
** Creator/JessicaBiel was offered the role of Brooke.
* WriteWhatYouKnow: Sort of. The movie is inspired by Creator/ChanningTatum's time as a male stripper when he was eighteen (making Adam something of an AuthorAvatar). The sequence of Brooke showing up to Adam's first night stripping is based on Channing's own sister showing up on his first night to guilt him out of doing it. However he insists that the story is fictional.
* WrittenInInfirmity: Tarzan wears a knee brace when he dances because Wrestling/KevinNash has a history of knee problems and wouldn't be able to dance without it. He showed up on set with it and they just added it in.
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