Steven Soderbergh’s spy-action pic Haywire opened in theaters this weekend, and among the stars is Channing Tatum, who, of course, is teaming with the director for 2012's eye candy male stripper flick Magic Mike, which opens this summer on June 29.

Collider.com featured an interview this week with Tatum, who wrote the draft script, in which he reveals some goodies about the upcoming film (which also stars Joe Manganiello, The Smoking Nun's Sexiest Man Alive for 2011). I watched the video interview clip and am happy to report the following nuggets:

* Comparing the film to his experience as a stripper at age 18: “It's a fantasy fulfillment movie and an education. If you want to know what it's like to be a male stripper, this is it.”
* The movie is rated a "hard R": "You've got a bunch of naked guys; there won't be full frontal, it's just thongs and underwear. There's a couple girls that are topless. It's not overtly gratuitously sexual. It's a fun movie. We wrote it very comedic: It's outlandish and the characters are bizarre."
* On co-star Matthew McConaughey: "We knew the propensity he had to get naked and that's awesome. I think he's a very underrated actor, because he's (so) good-looking. He's one of the most committed actors to his character and to the whole picture. I've always seen him in my head as a Mad Hatter. I wanted all that craziness and to create a character that fosters all those eccentricities he has. But he is utterly believable and real."
* In a second interview with Matt Bomer, the co-star tells Collider: "It’s a really intricate plot. It’s very much of a Saturday Night Fever, Boogie (Nights) coming-of-age story. The central relationship is Channing and Alex Pettyfer’s. They play Mike and The Kid. It’s a mentorship type thing. One is unhappy with where he is and knows there’s a real ceiling to that lifestyle, (while) one is just getting into the whole glorious aspect of what it means to be a stripper." *

Just when you thought 'Magic Mike' couldn't possibly lube itself up with any more testosterone, it's hit the webbie that hunk Adam Rodriguez has joined the cast of the stripper-fest flick.

Rodriguez joins lead Channing Tatum, alongside Matthew McConaughey, Alex Pettyfer, Joe Manganiello and Matt Bomer. Directed by Oscar-winning Steven Soderbergh (Erin Brockovich, Oceans Eleven, etc., Sex, Lies and Videotape), the film is an earnest exploration of Tatum's younger days working as a g-string, lap-dancing stripper at Florida club Male Encounter. Psych! It's nothing but beefcake, baby!

The 36-yo Puerto Rican/Cuban-American Rodriguez, born in Yonkers, is best known for roles in CSI: Miami and Ugly Betty. He's also in the upcoming big-budget The Dark Knight Rises.