Channing Tatum’s Gambit movie never came to fruition due to the Disney/20th Century Fox merger, but the actor’s dream of playing Marvel’s Ragin’ Cajun finally came true last year. Deadpool & Wolverine featured Remy LeBeau as one of the superheroes the title protagonists teamed up with in The Void, and Tatum will reprise the character in Avengers: Doomsday late next year. Tatum is approaching Gambit in a different way for the upcoming Marvel movie that thankfully addresses a Deadpool & Wolverine-related concern that was on my mind.
During an interview with Variety, Channing Tatum mentioned that despite Gambit being one of Deadpool & Wolverine’s most popular elements, studio executives “really had to wrap their mind around the accent and how people are going to understand him” for Avengers: Doomsday. The actor’s solution? Tone down his character’s accent. In Tatum’s words:
