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

A Marvel Cinematic Universe star who made his debut in 2024 addresses returning for Avengers: Doomsday. While Phase 6 just kicked off this summer with The Fantastic Four: First Steps, only a handful of movies and TV shows are left in The Multiverse Saga, which will conclude in 2027.

via: Variety

Channing Tatum revealed in a new Variety cover story that Gambit will be somewhat softening his Cajun accent in “Avengers: Doomsday,” which is now in production. Tatum debuted as the Marvel superhero in last year’s “Deadpool and Wolverine” after spending years trying and failing to get a standalone Gambit movie made under 20th Century Fox. A running joke in “Deadpool and Wolverine” is that nobody can understand Gambit’s thick Cajun accent. Ryan Reynolds’ Deadpool quips at one point: “Who’s your dialect coach? The Minions?”

It appears Gambit will be easier to understand in “Avengers: Doomsday,” which sees Tatum back to face off against Robert Downey Jr.’s Doctor Doom alongside Florence Pugh, Pedro Pascal, Chris Hemsworth and various other Marvel actors. Tatum told Variety that studio executives “really had to wrap their mind around the accent and how people are going to understand him” as Gambit moves forward in the MCU beyond “Deadpool and Wolverine.”

“I’m not gonna go full Cajun,” Tatum said. “[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.”

Tatum previously told Access Hollywood that his Gambit accent in “Deadpool and Wolverine” was intentional, explaining: “There was very little improv. The Cajun dialect is a very particular one. 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.’”

Just how Gambit factors into “Avengers: Doomsday” remains under wraps. But he’s clearly got fight scenes, as Tatum also revealed to Variety that he suffered an injury on set that has resulted in him taking pain medication and will require intensive physical therapy. He had to be sidelined from some action scenes due to the injury, instead sitting in for close-ups of his face while relying on his stunt double to do the heavy lifting.

“It’s not about the pain I feel in the moment,” Tatum said. “It’s knowing I can’t take this back. And now I know what the next six months of my life will be like.. I just hate getting old… In my mind, I’m literally still 30 years old — 26, if I’m honest.”

“Avengers: Doomsday” is set for release on Dec. 18, 2026 from Disney and Marvel Studios. Read Tatum’s full Variety cover story here.