{"id":2069388,"date":"2025-10-04T21:58:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T21:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2069388"},"modified":"2025-10-04T21:58:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T21:58:23","slug":"former-gambit-actor-confirms-if-hes-ever-returning-to-the-role-alongside-channing-tatum-in-the-mcu-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/former-gambit-actor-confirms-if-hes-ever-returning-to-the-role-alongside-channing-tatum-in-the-mcu-exclusive\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Gambit Actor Confirms if He’s Ever Returning to the Role Alongside Channing Tatum in the MCU [Exclusive]"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For years, Gambit<\/a> had been the great \u201cwhat if\u201d of the X-Men<\/a> franchise. Originally lined up for a small role in X-Men: The Last Stand<\/a>, the Cajun card-slinger was never a big-screen priority, despite Channing Tatum<\/a>\u2019s 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<\/a>(2009), but when Tatum<\/a>\u2019s schedule kept him tied to G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra<\/a>, the part went instead to Friday Night Lights<\/a> alum Taylor Kitsch<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Kitsch\u2019s version of Remy LeBeau<\/a> showed up for a brief stretch of the ill-fated Origins<\/a>, but the performance never quite hit…<\/p>\n

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For years, Gambit had been the great \u201cwhat if\u201d 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\u2019s name circling the role for years. That false start was followed by an even stranger twist: Gambit was finally […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2069389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2069388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Former-Gambit-Actor-Confirms-if-Hes-Ever-Returning-to-the.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2069388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2069390,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069388\/revisions\/2069390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2069389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2069388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2069388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2069388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}