Channing Tatum is preparing to joing the X-Men film universe as the kinetically charged, mutant Southern rake, Gambit. In the most recent issue of Empire Magazine, Tatum shared where his affection for Remy LeBeau comes from.
“I love Gambit,” Tatum says. “I grew up in the South; my father’s from Louisiana. We’d go to New Orleans and I heard all the dialects. It felt so different from the rest of America; it has its own ancient culture. So I identified with that.
