“I thought I had lost Gambit forever,” actor Channing Tatum writes in an emotional message on Instagram praising Ryan Reynolds for helping rescue Tatum’s dream of playing the Marvel character.
Reynolds, writes Tatum, “fought for me and Gambit. 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.” Tatum was attached star in a Gambit stand-alone X-Men spinoff film back in 2014, but the project was scuttled in 2019 with the acquisition of 21st Century Fox by Disney.
The Magic Mike star finally got to don the Gambit costume just this year for a cameo in Deadpool & Wolverine starring Reynolds and Hugh Jackman.
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