- [Kelly] How are you doing?
- I'm so good.
- [Kelly] Yeah.
- Yeah, I'm great. How are you?
- I think about you often, this is why.
We read Sparkella so much.
- [Channing] I'm so sorry.
- [Kelly] No, we do.
My kids always wanna read it and I'm like
there's other books in the library, but we read it so much.
Anyway, your your children's book is a hit,
how's your daughter doing?
- Thank you. Thank you very much.
She's so good. My daughter's great.
Like we read the book a lot as well.
- [Kelly] Yeah
- I mean like it's so it's, it's still in my house
even though like, she basically helped me write it.
So she,
- I know.
- She just likes calling me a poop
and a poopy snail.
- Glitter poop
- [Channing] Like glitter poop.
- I read it.
So it wasn't a lie.
So wait, so magic Mike three it's happening, right?
- Yes
- I heard that it's happening.
- Yeah, yeah
- You were trying keep it from us.
- I really did not.
- You were trying not to do it.
- I, I, you know, if I'm, if I'm moving here.
- Oh my gosh.
- If I'm, oh God,
- [Kelly] That's amazing.
- [Channing] No, No, don't put that up.
- I would put that, if I worked out and looked like that
I would put it up everywhere.
- Trust me.
That might be the reason why I didn't want to
do a third one is because I have to look like that.
- Is it, so you don't work out regularly all the time.
- No, but it's, it's hard to look like.
Even if you do work out,
to be that kind in shape is not, it's not natural.
- Do you have to eat like so well?
- Yeah, you have to, well is not even
that's not even healthy.
You have to starve yourself.
- [Kelly] Oh my God.
- I don't think when you're that lean it's actually health
- Health is dangerous, that's why.
- [Channing] It's true.
New public service announcement folks.
Health is not good for you.
- This is why I don't work out.
I am just trying to save people here.
No, but what is it like getting into shape for that?
Like is it that kind of hell?
- Yeah. I mean, I, which truly, I don't know how
people that work in nine to five actually stay in shape
because it's my full-time job and I can barely do it.
- [Kelly] Yeah.
- But it is.
You work out twice a day
you have to eat completely right a certain time.
It's a, it's a specific thing.
- [Kelly] It's a talent to be able to do that as well.
Even in like, when I have like vacation time,
I'm like, this is the time.
- [Channing] Yeah.
- I'm gonna do it.
No, no, I don't do it.
- I fluctuate like almost
I, it was a lot more when I was younger
but now I can't, I can't get it off.
So, as easy. So now I'm fluctuate like 15 pounds,
but I used to fluctuate like 30 pounds.
- [Kelly] Age is not fun.
- No.
- [Kelly] Yeah.
- And why? When it takes like, I don't know, two months to
get really lean, but in like three days you can lose it.
- You can ruin it.
- It's gone. I was like, what, what happened?
- It was just a weekend.
- [Kelly] What's the thing that you miss most?
- [Channing] Yeah.
- Like what's the thing you miss most?
- The thing I miss most probably is like salt.
- [Kelly] Oh.
- Like when, like when you need to get really close to the
like the day where you gotta be butt naked on screen.
- [Kelly] Yeah.
- And, and it lives enough for me.
- [Kelly] Those, those, those days aren't for everyone.
- No
Salt is just like, you know, it goes, you just
everything just tastes like I don't know,
tastes like water. It's nothing.
- [Kelly] See, I'm a sweet person.
I, can't not like when they're like, oh
you're not gonna be able to have sugar on this diet.
I'm like, oh, I'm out.
- Oh, see you later.
- I mean I like monk fruit.
I like salad.
I like all the things you can like do.
But every once in a while, I just want some good,
like Ben and Jerry's so.
- Do you have to finish every meal with like a sweet taste?
- [Kelly] No.
No, but I don't.
But what I crave though, every time I've done
like a hardcore thing is always like cake.
- [Channing] Yeah.
- Chocolate cake,
- [Channing] Cheat days.
- I want it right now.
- Yeah.
I was actually at doing a, doing press doing a junket and
and so I was like, I'm gonna give myself a treat.
And I ate like an entire two pieces of chocolate cake.
And I was just like,
- [Kelly] Dam straight.
- But it was, as soon as it hit, like my brain
I felt like immediately sick,
it was euphoria.
And then immediately sick.
I, I was just like, why did I do that?
- [Kelly] I know it's so bad for us.
- Yeah. It's terrible. But it's delicious.
- But it's so good.
- Why are the most delicious things this horrible way?
- I know. That's just Satan.
So I,
so I hear the new Magic,
the Magic MIke movie has more of a female point of view.
- Yeah
- [Kelly] Is that true?
- Yeah.
- [Kelly] Okay.
I'm interested.
- Yeah. So like the first two movies were
about men and kind of weirdly made for women.
So they were like these feathered fish types.
- [Kelly] Yeah, we thank you.
- You're welcome. We thank you as well.
- It was a public service, I feel.
- Still trying to do our part really.
- [Kelly] Pleasing people, doing Gods work
- Equal opportunity, objectification, yes
Yeah. And I was like
- But they're fun as well.
I don't actually, just as that, they're fun.
And it's talent to be able to dance like that.
- Look, we're just trying to do, do our duty.
- I agree, I agree, but what's the female perspective.
How does that play?
We, I really wanted like a central character
that it was at least an equal, if not more, even more
of a central character of, of Mike, you know?
Because it, it, it should be told at some point
through a female's perspective, like what the world is
and how sex or freedom or relationships kind of like evolve
around her world.
So we're gonna go to London and there's gonna
Thandiwe Newton
- [Kelly] Oh, it's getting fancy.
- I'm not sure if I can say that
but Thandiwe Newton is gonna be our,
- [Kelly] oh my God.
- [Channing] Our lead.
So,
- [Kelly] Oh my gosh, oh my gosh
I'm excited. I have to say
Have you, this is my first question.
Cause when I watch this movie, this is my first question.
I have actually taken showers with my dog.
- [Channing] Oh yeah.
- Because it's easier.
- Yeah, totally.
- Because he gets to so dirty, like at the beach
or something or a skunk got him once.
And I was like, look, this is too much.
So I was just so I, yeah
I've taken showers, but not, not a bath, but showers.
- The skunk thing is such a menace.
Like they're menace because like my dog
before the dog I have now Lulu
which would kind of inspired this movie.
- [Kelly] Yeah.
- She was obsessed with skunks
And like, I think there was about four or five years
that her mouth never didn't smell like a skunk.
And there was like skunks living
in our backyard and it was just
- Me too.
- I was like, I'm gonna kill every one of those skunks.
- [Kelly] I know there were three of them.
There were three of them.
They kept attacking my dog.
My dog just kept wanting to play with them.
- [Channing] Ah God.
- And every time he got sprayed and I was like, dear God
- [Channing] Your whole house smells, you have to do
like the the weird concoction with tomato juice
and all this stuff.
- [Kelly] Dude.
I did all the things that everybody told me, but I just
I was dying when I watched this movie,
and I was like done that, I've been there.
- Yip, yip, fully.
- Well, everybody Channing's new movie is called Dog.
- [Kelly] If you didn't know, it's amazing.
You've gotta see it.
The one thing I love about the movie I have to say is
and I wrote this in your card
but I love that you like laugh and it makes you think.
- Yeah.
- You know and because there's some serious subject matters
in there and it's also just such a great story
and people relate to it and you just feel all the feels.
- Yeah.
- I love a movie that takes you on that ride
like emotionally.
And it perfectly does that.
- Fully. I mean, we, we got inspired from, I lost my puppy.
Like my first, like, you know, I had dogs all growing up
but like my first dog was this dog Lulu.
And like, she was like my shadow.
She didn't like want to do anything that didn't
have me involved and, and lost her.
We went on a road trip
and then literally like two days later she passed.
And so we were gonna tell that story about a guy that went
on a bucket list, sort of like journey with his dog.
- [Kelly] Yeah.
- And that, that story.
And sadly, like, you know, we were like
who wants to actually see that?
And we don't want people like leaving the theater
wanting to kill themselves,
- [Kelly] Yeah
- But it's relatable as well.
Because that happened to me as well.
- Truly it, yeah, it is.
- But I like this movie better
- Truly though, because like it, dogs are joyful.
- They bring so much joy.
- [Kelly] Yeah,
- We wanted to tell a joyful story.
And, and so we, we decided to tell a different story and
and something that had a lot more hope in it.
And we landed on this story and, and you know, the
these two crazy characters end up just like kind of biting
and fighting each other, all, all down this road.
- And they're going through their own stuff.
That's, what's kind of cool.
- They're bit mirrors for each other.
- Exactly. You're both kind of going through similar things
but in different ways and it's dog's perspective
your perspective and how y'all kind of
your relationship is hilarious, but it's also cute
and sad and all the things, it's all the feels.
It's so good.
But the last time that you were here
you premiered the trailer for Dog
and you brought your co-star
and I remember he very much like DVDs.
- I'm sorry.
- Let's see this.
- [Channing] She likes to eat this.
This is Dog, our movie that we have coming out.
- She eats your movie.
- Yes. She eats the movie.
So we're just gonna let her eat it.
- Oh God. I love it. I love it.
Get it, just tear it up.
Tear it up.
- I know, I know.
- This is how I am with chocolate.
- Welcome to making a dog movie.
I was so worried. I was like, cause you know, dogs
especially those kind of dogs.
They're they're just so intense and
- Highly trained ones.
- Highly, highly trained, and they're there, there are a lot
of energy.
- [Kelly] I had one.
- And I'm just happy she didn't scratch you.
- No, I had, I was so prepared though.
I had Cairo, we had a Doberman for years.
- [Channing] Cairo's a cool name
- He came with that name.
He was beautiful.
He was of Doberman.
And he was trained by like SWAT.
Like he was a trained dog.
Like, and I would get a fearful though, because of if he was
around other people because he was trained to
protect our home and us.
So I'd get, people would come over and they'd be like, so
- They'd go to hug you and you'd be like,
oh let's do hug in the other room.
- Like he's like all of a sudden you see
in the corner just like eyeing you.
It's like, yeah.
Yeah. It was like, but I love, I think it's really cool
because those dogs are so important.
I also love that y'all are showcasing that in the movie.
They're so important to military.
- They really really are.
- Yeah.
- Yeah. I,
- They're like best friends.
They are your, the comrades, like going out there,
doing it with them.
- There's such a thin line between human and,
and like canine.
And, and in our experience, we did this documentary for HBO
about war dogs and they're really high level canine dogs
and they're handlers.
And what we got to see was that these soldiers that are
like the ultimate at warriors, they're, you know
very little like emotion.
They don't let you in very much.
They've been taught and kind of probably just were already
predisposed this way to like really compartmentalize
their emotions and not really kind of, I don't know
not let you in not be vulnerable.
Yeah. But then all of a sudden you'd see this like
this like big, tough guy that's you know
like the literal picture perfect of a soldier.
- [Kelly] Yeah.
- Turned into like reduced to like baby talking
and this dog,
- [Kelly] How you were with the bath.
- Exactly. You so cute
And you're just like what?
That's not the same person and they just have
an access point, I think.
That that not a lot of other things
can do for these men and women.
- [Kelly] I love dogs.
I'm like, I love all animals, but I'm such a dog person.
I grew up with them.
Did you grow up with them?
- Oh yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah. My whole life outside dogs inside dogs often.
- I, I love this though.
You, you spoke about this before, but you co-directed
the film, right?
- [Channing] Yes.
- Is this your first time doing something like that?
- First time, first time.
- [Kelly] Was it scary?
- It was
- I feel like its a lot of pressure.
- It was, it was,
it was a lot harder than I, as you can imagine
than than I expected it to be,
we thought it was a simple movie.
You know, it was me and a dog and what not.
But at the end of the day, I probably won't direct again,
if I'm gonna be in the movie.
I'm in every frame of the film
and to try and like direct, you don't have any time to
actually go watch what you've done.
- [Kelly] Yeah.
- So it's, it's a little frustrating, but
- [Kelly] And are dogs like kids?
Like, you know what I'm saying?
Like you think it's gonna be great.
And then it's like, whoa, this is hard to control
- The dog doesn't care what the story is.
Like he doesn't care about, he's like, oh yeah
what's going on with your like whatever.
What do you want me to do?
He's like,
- [Kelly] I don't wanna go over here.
- Gimme the treat.
Like I just gimme the but, but yeah, you're
you're kind of, I don't know, cornered into like
you just need the dog to like walk over here
and sit down and, and that's that's you could do one task
but if you started getting, like asking two things
you now were in like no man's land really?
- Yeah. And there there's so many people
around the dog, so yeah, yeah, yeah.
- Yeah. That's why Brita was so kind of crazy.
She'd never been around people clapping and,
- [Kelly] I, oh wait, a band
We had everything going.
- [Channing] It was going off.
- She was like wow
- [Kelly] What kind of speed am I on?
- This is a party let's ride.
- She's so cute though.
So do you, I don't know.
Do you consider working with animals as a career?
Like would you, did you ever do that?
Cause I think you like animals a lot.
- I do like animals.
- Would you ever been like a vet?
- [Channing] I could have done.
I, I was, I worked at a puppy kidding nursery in senior,
my senior
- You're adorable. What?
- It was just like cleaning up poop.
I don't know how adorable it was.
- [Kelly] Oh yeah. Well I,Yeah.
I worked in a zoo and they put me right
by the monkeys and all they did was poo all day.
- [Channing] Yeah.
Were they throwing it?
- [Kelly] Yeah.
So I was near poo a lot as well.
They did, but I was guarded by the kiosk.
- You were smart.
You were smart. I got,
- But its like 108 in Texas, so,
- I got a spattering one time, it was gardens.
- Oh you did?
- Yeah, it was, not cute.
- Well you have a kid.
Have you ever been peed on or pooped on or?
- [Channing] Yeah.
- Yip, Yip
- Tons. Tons of time, but never by a monkey before.
That was, that was
- [Kelly] I never got, I never got nailed by it
but my kiosk did, but thank you so much.
I love the movie.
- [Channing] Yes. Thank you so much.
- You have to go see it, it's so good.
I'm not kidding.
You literally do feel all the emotions
like while watching it.
It's so good.
And Dog is in theaters tomorrow.
So go check it out.