After years of attempting but failing to make a Gambit film amid Fox’s Marvel era, Channing Tatum eventually got the opportunity to appear as the superhero Gambit in “Deadpool & Wolverine”. In a Vanity Fair video interview, he recently revealed that he was too afraid to ask to take the Gambit outfit home after shooting, demonstrating how holy the character is to him. Tatum never brings an item from the set home with him, but Gambit’s was a different situation altogether.
“I was too scared to ask,” Tatum said. “And usually, I steal the very last outfit that I’m in, in every movie, and I was too scared to do it on this one.” In “Deadpool & Wolverine,” Gambit’s strong Cajun accent is frequently made fun of, with Ryan Reynolds’ Deadpool once inquiring, “Who’s your dialect coach? “The Minions?” Tatum stated to Vanity Fair that because the accent was all deliberate, condemnation of it is not really appropriate.
“There was very little improv. The Cajun dialect is a very particular one,” Tatum told Access Hollywood. “I grew up in Mississippi and my dad is from New Orleans. So it’s one of those things that I grew up around it, but I’ve never done it. There are certain little isms that are very Cajun-y, but we actually intended it to be somewhat unintelligible. That was sort of the joke.”
“[Ryan would] come up to be and say, ‘I don’t want to know anything that you’re saying on this [take],’ so I just dialed it all the way up,” Tatum stated. “And then other ones he’s like, ‘All right, I’ve got to understand what you’re saying now.’”
Tatum used social media to make an emotional remark about finally being able to appear as Gambit on the big screen following “Deadpool & Wolverine” smashing record-breaking revenues during the film’s opening weekend. “I thought I had lost Gambit forever. But [Reynolds] fought for me and Gambit,” he cited. “I will owe him probably forever. Cause I’m not sure how I could ever do something that would be equal to what this has meant to me. I love ya buddy…I’m so grateful to be in this movie. It’s a masterpiece in my opinion. And just pure bad ass joy. I was literally screaming in the theater.”