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5. Channing Tatum

“We were sitting over a beer and I told [director Steven Soderbergh] that I was a stripper for eight months when I was nineteen,” Tatum said of the inception of Magic Mike. “And he said that would be a great movie. And I said, ‘Well I want to make a movie out of it.’ And he’s said, ‘You should write it.’ And I’m like, ‘Yeah Soderbergh, Steven Soderbergh I’ll go write that.’ Cut to three or four months later, I read an interview where he said that he would be willing to direct.”

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For 2024’s iteration of MadameNoire and HelloBeautiful’s annual series Women to Know, we knew we wanted to celebrate the people who help make the joys of film and television possible. To create art is to create magic. This year, we spotlight Hollywood Executive’s changing the face of cinema.