As Gambit said, he’s about to mak Channing Tatum’s appearance in Deadpool & Wolverine was one of the film’s biggest surprises, mostly because the actor had never played the character before. He’d tried though.

Sometimes you have to play the hand you're dealt. Half a decade after Channing Tatum's standalone Gambit movie was officially canceled, the X-Men hero sprung back onto the scene as part of Deadpool and Wolverine and its Void's worth of fan favorite surprises and cameos. Now, star Ryan Reynolds says Marvel Studios is "obsessed" with Gambit.