PR.com (Allison Kugel): I noticed that your profile picture on Twitter is of you posing in the Playboy bunny outfit. How do you feel about the Playboy bunny costume and what it represents?

Jenna Dewan Tatum: Like it or hate it, the Playboy bunny is iconic. I think it’s a beautiful, sexy, womanly outfit. I also believe that by today’s standards, we are wearing a lot more clothing [on the show] than most bathing suits and bikinis out there (laughs). What I love so much about the Playboy bunny costume is that it creates this hourglass figure when you wear it. For somebody like me who has to work hard to have my curves it’s nice to wear something that helps me out a little bit, gives me that corset and gives me those hips. As soon as you put it on you feel empowered, you feel sexy and you feel womanly. There are very few things I’ve worn in my life that I can say make me feel more like a woman.

PR.com: Is it because it has that retro vibe and it’s very reminiscent of a time back when ladies were ladies and men were men, that kind of overall feeling?

Jenna Dewan Tatum: Yes, absolutely! I think there is something to say about women being women, and just really embodying that energy. This outfit really does that. It’s about honoring your femininity. We are fully feminine characters in this show and I think that’s really fun to play.

PR.com: What attracted you to the role of Bunny Janie?

Jenna Dewan Tatum: I read it and I was cracking up. I thought, “This could not be a more fun character to play for a couple of years on a TV show.” She’s going to get herself in trouble. She’s definitely hiding something massive, which I didn’t know at that point in time, and she is the life of the party. She is so free and so free spirited. It was exciting for me to bring forward that part of myself that is Janie, more to the forefront of my own personality.

PR.com: Hugh Hefner is an executive producer on The Playboy Club. From a historically accurate standpoint, how much input has Mr. Hefner had?

Jenna Dewan Tatum: I heard that he had a lot of input. We [also] have Jason Burns, who is one of the Playboy executives. [Jason] is at the show each and every day, overseeing the whole thing. If you watch the Hef documentary, he is a really smart and progressive man who has been very involved in the Playboy brand from day one, and he’s never going to give up that control. It’s his baby, it’s his brand. He wants to make sure we are representing it well, and in the most truthful and right way in which it was in the 1960s. I met [Hef] and he told me that he was very happy with it. And the costumes are, to the stitch, exactly how they were in the 1960s. I mean every boning, every tie, how high the cups of the bust go up… everything is, to a tee, exactly how it was back in the 1960s, even the shoes. We wear all vintage clothing. [Hef] really wants it to be authentic and about these bunnies and their stories with each other.

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