Channing Tatum’s Gambit Cajun accent and love for the ‘outfit’

Channing Tatum got candid on the love and respect he has for the character he played in Deadpool & Wolverine, Gambit, and opened up on the accent of the superhero.

After years of efforts to bring the character to the big screen, Tatum got the chance to play Gambit in Deadpool & Wolverine.

The actor expressed his love for the character during a recent interview with Vanity Fair, and how he was too scared to ask to take the Gambit costume home, despite the fact he takes outfits home from every movie he works in.

“I was too scared to ask,” Tatum said. “And usually, I steal the very last outfit that I’m in, in every movie, and I was too scared to do it on this one.”

Tatum also opened up on his character’s thick, “intentional” Cajun accent.

“There was very little improv. The Cajun dialect is a very particular one,” Tatum told Access Hollywood in a separate interview.

“I grew up in Mississippi and my dad is from New Orleans. So it’s one of those things that I grew up around it, but I’ve never done it. There are certain little isms that are very Cajun-y, but we actually intended it to be somewhat unintelligible. That was sort of the joke.”

“[Ryan would] come up to be and say, ‘I don’t want to know anything that you’re saying on this [take],’ so I just dialed it all the way up,” Tatum added.

“And then other ones he’s like, ‘All right, I’ve got to understand what you’re saying now.'”