How Heavy Metal Prepared Jada Pinkett Smith for 'Magic Mike XXL'

Jada Pinkett Smith sure knew how to hold down the fort of the strip club in "Magic Mike XXL"

"I think that I got a lot of practice from being in my metal band, right?" she tells "Made in Hollywood," with a laugh, about her club-owner character. "The metal crowd is a very hard crowd to reel in."

Added Smith with another chuckle: "I think just connecting to energy and knowing how to move a crowd - I really learned through my band and the metal crowd, so thank you, metal!"

In 2002, Smith launched and fronted the vocals for the metal band Wicked Wisdom, performing under the stage name Jada Koren. The singer-actress has previously cited Metallica and Guns N' Roses as influences.

Inspired by Channing Tatum’s brief time moonlighting as a 19-year-old stripper, Smith joins the men of "Magic Mike XXL" as strip club owner Rome, whom she meets as the hard bodied bros travel to a stripper convention and meet other flirty beauties played by Amber Heard and Andie MacDowell. Also starring Matt Bomer, Joe Manganiello, Kevin Nash, Adam Rodriguez and Stephen “tWitch” Boss. -- Written by Dahvi Shira