Sorry Taylor Kitsch, CHANNING TATUM Wants To Be GAMBIT Now

If there’s one aspect of superhero movies I absolutely adore, it’s gotta be the revolving door of mediocre actors who are constantly campaigning for a role, any role, in any hero movie (sarcasm, ya’ll). It usually does’t matter which hero, as long as their name’s safely written on the proverbial ballot.

Speaking of which, we’ve just heard from Channing Tatum (that dude who takes his shirt off in a ton of movies) and apparently he’d love to play Gambit onscreen. Now, I’d usually cast a few disparaging comments his way, citing his dubstep drenched dance flicks as a poor mark on his record, but Tatum’s actually delivered the goods in his past few movies. Regarding the Cajun, card slinging mutant, here’s what the thespian had to say:

“I would like to play Gambit. Gambit’s my favorite, because I’m from New Orleans, and around that area. My dad’s from New Orleans, and I like to do the Cajun accent. I like to do it for real. No knock on Taylor Kitsch at all, because I actually like his Gambit, but I’ve always lived around the Cajun people. And I would have liked to have seen a little bit like… Gambit was always like the woman-loving, cigarette-smoking, drinking—he was the punk rock of all the superheroes.”

I’m not convinced Tatum can properly portray any role other than the “chummy, green kid”, but I’d be willing to give him a shot in this role. Hell, anything’s better than Taylor Kitsch’s Gambit in Origins: Wolverine. Not that it was his fault, or anything, but still… that Gambit was poopy (ignoring the badass rescue of Wolverine).

SOURCE: CB