Channing Tatum Says Gambit Accent Was Supposed to Be ‘Unintelligible’ at Times and He Was ‘Too Scared to Ask’ Marvel for the Costume to Bring Home
variety.comZack Sharf Digital News Director Channing Tatum finally got the chance to play the superhero Gambit in “Deadpool & Wolverine” after he spent years trying and failing to develop a Gambit film 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 scared to ask to take the Gambit costume home with him after filming wrapped.
Tatum always takes home a outfit from set, but not Gambit’s. “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.” Gambit’s thick Cajun accent is a running joke in “Deadpool & Wolverine,” with Ryan Reynolds’ Deadpool asking at one point: “Who’s your dialect coach?
The Minions?” Tatum told Vanity Fair that criticism of the accent is not exactly fair as it was all intentional. “There was very little improv.
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