Channing Tatum Defends Gambit Accent in 'Deadpool and Wolverine' – Knowligent
Channing Tatum Defends Gambit Accent in 'Deadpool and Wolverine'

Channing Tatum Defends Gambit Accent in 'Deadpool and Wolverine'

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Channing Tatum finally got his chance to play the superhero Gambit in "Deadpool & Wolverine" after years of trying and failing to develop a Gambit movie during Fox's Marvel era. The role is so sacred to him that he recently said in a Vanity Fair video interview that he was too afraid to ask to take the Gambit costume home with him after filming wrapped. Tatum always takes an outfit home from set, but not Gambit's.

"I was too scared to ask," Tatum said. "And I usually steal the very last outfit I'm in, in every movie, and I was too scared to do it in this movie."

Gambit's thick Cajun accent is a recurring joke in "Deadpool & Wolverine," with Ryan Reynolds' Deadpool at one point asking, "Who's your dialect coach? The Minions?" Tatum told Vanity Fair that criticism of the accent isn't exactly fair, since it was all intentional.