The Magic Mike franchise has gotten the ladies all riled up over the years, and with the sequel, Magic Mike XXL, hitting theaters today, it can only add more to the madness. While some of the favorites are returning to the big screen to take it all off, including Channing Tatum, there are some new faces, and washboard abs, that viewers won’t be able to get enough of.

Famed choreographer and actor, tWitch, already blew us away in the Step Up series a couple of years ago, and now we’re getting a taste of his male stripping moves with his new role in Magic Mike XXL. Not only did he learn “a new approach” to seducing his woman from working on the movie, but he even got his first body waxing.

See what he had to say about the experience, and much more about the film, in our Civil Interview on the following pages. –Lindsey India