Gambit Actor Channing Tatum Reveals 'Big Fight' With Robert Downey Jr.'s Doctor Doom in Avengers: Doomsday, Says 'I’m Not Gonna Go Full Cajun'

With filming for Avengers: Doomsday successful afloat swing, we’re learning much and much astir what benignant of movie Marvel fans tin expect to spot adjacent year. Whether it’s via leaked acceptable photos oregon off-hand comments from 1 of the film’s galore stars, we’re gathering an ever clearer representation of Doomsday. Now, it’s clip to adhd Gambit prima Channing Tatum to the list.

Tatum is acceptable to reprise his relation arsenic Gambit aft his hugely fashionable cameo arsenic the card-carrying X-Men superhero. Now, speaking astir his clip shooting Doomsday successful an interrogation with Variety, Tatum has shed caller airy connected his involvement.

The archetypal happening to enactment is Tatum revealed helium was forced to skip what helium described arsenic a “big fight” with Robert Downey Jr.’s Doctor Doom owed to injury, leaving his treble to instrumentality the enactment and stepping successful lone for close-ups. This teases an X-Men vs Doctor Doom combat astatine immoderate constituent successful the movie, which astir fans had expected anyhow based connected leaked acceptable photos. The question is, does Gambit past this fight? Do immoderate of the mutants confirmed to look successful the movie?

The 2nd happening worthy noting is that we’ll spot a toned down mentation of Tatum’s Gambit successful Avengers: Doomsday, compared to the mentation we saw successful Deadpool & Wolverine. This, Tatum said, means that drama accent volition beryllium a small clearer, and the drama won’t lucifer Deadpool’s tone.

As Tatum said, executives “really had to wrapper their caput astir the accent and however radical are going to recognize him.” In response, Tatum said: “I’m not gonna spell afloat Cajun.” Co-directors Anthony and Joe Russo “want things to beryllium funny, but they don’t privation to spell afloat Deadpool. They privation to support the play and support it tight. When Gambit gets superior — erstwhile helium drops the Mardi Gras disguise — things bash matter.”

Tatum besides summed up Gambit arsenic helium sees him arsenic a character: “He likes women, helium smokes, helium drinks. He’s not conscionable a save-the-world benignant of feline — we request those, but we request contrast.”

Fans volition person to hold and spot precisely however it volition each play out, however, with Avengers: Doomsday presently acceptable to motorboat successful theaters connected December 18, 2026.

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