AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY Star Channing Tatum Teases Big [SPOILER] Battle; Says Gambit Won't Go "Full Cajun"

AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY Star Channing Tatum Teases Big [SPOILER] Battle; Says Gambit Won't Go "Full Cajun"

Deadpool and Wolverine actor Channing Tatum has teased his return as Gambit for Marvel Studios' Avengers: Doomsday, confirming that his Cajun accent will be "softened" somewhat...

By MarkCassidy - Sep 02, 2025 12:09 PM EST
Filed Under: Avengers: Doomsday

Channing Tatum is set to reprise his Deadpool and Wolverine role as Gambit in Avengers: Doomsday, but it sounds like the Ragin' Cajun will be taken a little more seriously when he makes his return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Though he did get to flex his action muscles in an exciting set piece, Tatum largely played Remy Lebeau for laughs in the recent R-rated movie (Wade Wilson not being able to understand his thick accent was a running joke). However, the Magic Mike star has now revealed that he won't be going "full Cajun" for Doomsday.

During an interview with Variety, Tatum said that studio executives “really had to wrap their mind around the accent and how people are going to understand him.”

“I’m not gonna go full Cajun,” he added. “[Directors Anthony and Joe Russo] want things to be funny, but they don’t want to go full Deadpool. They want to keep the drama and keep it tight. When Gambit gets serious — when he drops the Mardi Gras mask — things do matter.”

Spoilers follow.

We're still not sure how big a role Tatum will have in Doomsday, but the actor also revealed that he has a "big fight" scene with Robert Downey Jr.'s Doctor Doom that was intense enough to cause an injury. Tatum is now said to be walking with a "pronounced limp," and is undergoing physical therapy before returning to finish shooting his scenes.

"Tatum was sidelined, sitting in for close-ups and allowing his double to take on the heavy stuff. Today, he says, he’s taken the day off his pain meds 'so I wouldn’t be falling asleep on you and drooling. My body doesn’t do well with codeine — and those painkillers the U.K. docs gave me were strong.'”

Finally, Tatum reveals that he auditioned to play Thor back in the day prior to Chris Hemsworth landing the role.

“I didn’t really want to be Thor,” he says. “But I wanted to audition in front of Kenneth Branagh. After I did one take, [Branagh] was like, ‘You’re not allowed to move. Put your hands on this chair.’ And I froze. He nailed my crutch. I spent the next five years really trying to learn stillness.”

Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars were recently hit with significant delays, with Doomsday now set to arrive in theaters on December 18, 2026, and Secret Wars positioned for December 17, 2027.

Both movies will be directed by the Russo brothers, who also make their MCU return after helming Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Captain America: Civil War, Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame

"Being able to create stories and explore characters within the Marvel Universe fulfilled a life-long dream of ours, and we discovered a powerful connection with audiences in each film that we made. We’re thrilled to collaborate once again with Kevin, Lou and the entire Marvel team to bring this epic adventure in storytelling to new and surprising places for both the fans and ourselves”, said The Russos in a statement after the SDCC panel.

You can check out the full (for now) Doomsday cast list below.

• Paul Rudd as Ant-Man

• Simu Liu as Shang-Chi

• Tom Hiddleston as Loki

• Lewis Pullman as Sentry

• Florence Pugh as Yelena

• Danny Ramirez as Falcon

• Ian McKellen as Magneto

• Sebastian Stan as Bucky

• Winston Duke as M’Baku

• Chris Hemsworth as Thor

• Kelsey Grammer as Beast

• James Marsden as Cyclops

• Channing Tatum as Gambit

• Wyatt Russell as U.S. Agent

• Vanessa Kirby as Sue Storm

• Rebecca Romijn as Mystique

• Patrick Stewart as Professor X

• Alan Cumming as Nightcrawler

• Letitia Wright as Black Panther

• Tenoch Huerta Mejia as Namor

• Pedro Pascal as Reed Richards

• Hannah John-Kamen as Ghost

• Joseph Quinn as Johnny Storm

• David Harbour as Red Guardian

• Robert Downey Jr as Doctor Doom

• Ebon Moss-Bachrach as The Thing

• Anthony Mackie as Captain America

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Gambito
Gambito - 9/2/2025, 12:03 PM
[frick] yeah gambits back!!! Now if they could find a place for blade either the old one or the new one that would be epic
Malatrova15
Malatrova15 - 9/2/2025, 12:05 PM
He should kang
bobevanz
bobevanz - 9/2/2025, 12:06 PM
Thats great..
Urubrodi
Urubrodi - 9/2/2025, 12:12 PM
@bobevanz - Damn it looks amazing, and some people were like "oh why are they doing this crap", "what about quality vs quantity talk"...
WalletsClosed
WalletsClosed - 9/2/2025, 12:21 PM
@bobevanz - More content slop
JonAwesome
JonAwesome - 9/2/2025, 1:04 PM
@bobevanz - I liked Channing in the role but they should have cut out the dad nutsack and what’s up doc lines. They were silly
Comicmoviejunki
Comicmoviejunki - 9/2/2025, 1:12 PM
@Urubrodi - it was dumb as a comic book and it's dumb as a cartoon
Urubrodi
Urubrodi - 9/2/2025, 2:29 PM
@Comicmoviejunki - Must suck living in a reality where you watch a badass trailer like that and have the audacity to say it’s “dumb”. You do you man, but you’re not in the majority on this one.
Amuro
Amuro - 9/2/2025, 12:13 PM
I wish a good recovery to Mr. Tatum and good luck for his stunt double in the meantime.
Mercwitham0uth
Mercwitham0uth - 9/2/2025, 12:18 PM
Hoping he sticks around for the MCU X-Men film.
DocSpock
DocSpock - 9/2/2025, 12:34 PM

He should be gone. He was crap as Gambit. Would have been much worse as Thor.

I expect all the old X-Men folks, including him, to be totally gone after Secret Wars.

I wouldn't mind them keeping Fassbender as Magneto, and Mc'Avoy as Prof X, but I'm pretty sure that won't happen.

The big questions for the Hollywood agenda weirdos will be what characters they can turn gay/trans, and which white characters they can turn black. Quality means very little to them as compared to these things.

TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 9/2/2025, 12:35 PM
Not surprised that the Russo’s seem to have dialed back his accent for Gambit given the tonal difference (to an extent) between Doomsday and DP & W…

Tatum obviously deliberately exaggerated his accent a bit in the latter for comedic effect while this movie will likely be more dramatic given the Russo’s prior MCU work so there’s no need for that here.

Anyway , I still enjoyed his version of Gambit so looking forward to him in this!!.

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SuperCat
SuperCat - 9/2/2025, 12:35 PM
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DannyBrandy20
DannyBrandy20 - 9/2/2025, 12:58 PM
One of the worst cbm castings to date

TheNewYorkerr
TheNewYorkerr - 9/2/2025, 1:03 PM
Should’ve recasted him.
JFerguson
JFerguson - 9/2/2025, 1:04 PM
Nice! He has slimmed down a lot recently too so his flexibility in the costume will closer match how he moves in the comics and the cartoon.


Side note:
I'm very excited to see a comic-accurate take on Xmen. Particularly cyclops and gambit return. But i also wanted a conclusion to the kang story. This talk of dr doom introduction isnt hyping things up for me at all. If the primary hype of this is that some OG xmen characters are returning to fight B-list avengers and the FF, that kills the heart that these Avengers movies have come to be known for.
abd00bie
abd00bie - 9/2/2025, 2:51 PM
He was cast in 2014 lmao
1stDalek
1stDalek - 9/2/2025, 4:26 PM
the Branagh story is nice, not every actor will take that learning opportunity and adjust.

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