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.<\/p>\n
“I met with Lauren Shuler Donner and I would love it,” says Tatum. Gambit is really the only X-Man I\u2019ve ever loved. I mean I\u2019ve loved them all, they\u2019re all great, but I guess from being down south \u2013 my dad\u2019s from Louisiana, I\u2019m from Mississippi, Alabama, Florida \u2013 I don\u2019t know. I just related to him. He\u2019s just kind of suave\u2026 He\u2019s the most un X-Men X-Man that\u2019s ever been in X-Men. Other than maybe Wolverine, who\u2019s like the anti-hero. He\u2019s a thief. He\u2019s not even a hero. He\u2019s kind of walking the line of grey\u2026He loves women and drinking and smoking and stuff so he\u2019s just a cool guy who happens to have a moral center\u2026.I hope it [comes together]. You never know it\u2019s a weird industry. If the stars align, I would die to play it. I\u2019m already working on the accent. It\u2019s crappy at the moment.”<\/p>\n