Channing Tatum reveals meeting with X-MEN producer for the role of GAMBIT.

Channing Tatum has made it no secret that he’s interested in playing the mutant GAMBIT and now the actor reveals that he has already met with longtime producer Lauren Shuler Donner about the role.

“I met with Lauren Shuler Donner and I would love it,” says Tatum. Gambit is really the only X-Man I’ve ever loved. I mean I’ve loved them all, they’re all great, but I guess from being down south – my dad’s from Louisiana, I’m from Mississippi, Alabama, Florida – I don’t know. I just related to him. He’s just kind of suave… He’s the most un X-Men X-Man that’s ever been in X-Men. Other than maybe Wolverine, who’s like the anti-hero. He’s a thief. He’s not even a hero. He’s kind of walking the line of grey…He loves women and drinking and smoking and stuff so he’s just a cool guy who happens to have a moral center….I hope it [comes together]. You never know it’s a weird industry. If the stars align, I would die to play it. I’m already working on the accent. It’s crappy at the moment.”