Former Gambit Actor Confirms if He’s Ever Returning to the Role Alongside Channing Tatum in the MCU [Exclusive]

For years, Gambit had been the great “what if” of the X-Men franchise. Originally lined up for a small role in X-Men: The Last Stand, the Cajun card-slinger was never a big-screen priority, despite Channing Tatum’s name circling the role for years. That false start was followed by an even stranger twist: Gambit was finally in play for X-Men Origins: Wolverine(2009), but when Tatum’s schedule kept him tied to G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, the part went instead to Friday Night Lights alum Taylor Kitsch.

Kitsch’s version of Remy LeBeau showed up for a brief stretch of the ill-fated Origins, but the performance never quite hit…