Matt Bomer spoke with Entertainment Weekly recently about his strip-teasing role in Steven Soderbergh’s “Magic Mike.” In the interview (which also contains new pictures from the film), Bomer talked about the newfound respect for women and their various waxing regimens.

Bomer said that for the film, he had to get waxed, and it hurt. “I had never been waxed before,” he said. “I’m not a very hairy individual to beginwith, but it was painful. But more than that…it was more the feeling of feeling kind of prepubescent again[.]”

“…[T]he regrowth process was really s—y,” he said. “[I]tchy, uncomfortable. I have a newfound appreciation for women, between the waxing, self-tanning, the constant gym time; I have a whole new profound respect for women and what they go through.”

You can read the full article (and view the pictures) at Entertainment Weekly.

The film stars Channing Tatum, Adam Rodriguez, Matthew McConaughey, Alex Pettyfer, Joe Manganiello and Olivia Munn, and is based on Tatum’s personal experiences being an exotic dancer. The film will be in theaters June 29, so for everyone eager to see this film for less-than-analytical-reasons (which might be mostly everyone, I imagine), see if you can gird your loins until then.