Deadpool & Wolverine is a film full of crazy gags and ideas. Several characters and their actors make cameos, including a Hollywood star who had to wait ten years for this moment.
Spoiler alert: If you don’t want to know anything about the guest appearances in Deadpool & Wolverine, you should watch the film first and then read on.
Which actor is it about? Most of you probably know the American actor Channing Tatum from his roles in films such as Magic Mike, 21 Jump Street or Jupiter Ascending. Tatum has his own opinion about the latter.
He also makes an appearance in Deadpool & Wolverine, albeit a rather small one. He appears in a role that he was actually supposed to play several years ago. It is the character Gambit, a Marvel character who appears particularly in connection with the X-Men.
Tatum was cast in the role about 10 years ago. However, various circumstances during production meant that a film was never made.
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A solo film was planned
What happened 10 years ago? At that time, the X-Men still belonged to 20th Century Fox, a studio that has since been bought by Disney. Gambit was supposed to appear in X-Men: Apocalypse and then get his own solo film.
Channing Tatum was considered for the role and was keen to take on the role. However, pre-production on the project was slow and no suitable director could be found. The film was dead, and with it Tatum’s performance as Gambit.
Even the takeover by Disney did not change this. There were no further plans to produce a Gambit film. At this point, Channing Tatum thought the role was gone forever.
Things only changed when Ryan Reynolds contacted him. Reynolds has a lot of say in the Deadpool issue. He wanted an old colleague back as director and offered Channing Tatum a guest appearance as Gambit in Deadpool & Wolverine. This was a long-held dream come true for the actor.
How did Tatum react? The actor is very grateful for the opportunity that his friend Ryan Reynolds offered him and says:
I thought I had lost Gambit forever. But he (Ryan Reynolds) fought for me and Gambit. I’ll probably be forever indebted to him. Because I don’t know how I could ever do anything that would compare to that.
Channing Tatum via jeuxvideo.com
Who knows whether Disney and Marvel are now thinking about a solo film with the character. Or whether Ryan Reynolds himself will use Gambit again in a future project. The actor had over 18 different ideas for Deadpool & Wolverine alone – even if most of them were rejected by Marvel.