Avengers: Doomsday actor Channing Tatum opens up on his failed Thor audition – and the main lesson he learned from the underwhelming experience

Channing Tatum as Gambit in Deadpool and Wolverine.

He may be cutting cards now as Gambit in the MCU, but Channing Tatum once auditioned for Thor – and it didn't turn out well.

"I didn’t really want to be Thor," Tatum told Variety of his headspace heading into the reading for the first Thor film. “But I wanted to audition in front of [director] Kenneth Branagh.”