“I thought I had lost Gambit forever,” actor Channing Tatum writes in an emotional message on Instagram praising Ryan Reynolds for helping rescue Tatum’s dream of playing the Marvel character.
Reynolds, writes Tatum, “fought for me and Gambit. I will owe him probably forever. Cause I’m not sure how I could ever do something that would be equal to what this has meant to me. I love ya buddy.”
Tatum was attached star in a Gambit stand-alone X-Men spin-off film back in 2014, but the project was scuttled in 2019 with the acquisition of 21st Century Fox by Disney. The Magic Mike star finally got to don the Gambit costume just this year for a cameo in Deadpool & Wolverine starring Reynolds and Hugh Jackman.
Tatum’s message was accompanied by two side-by-side photos of himself and Reynolds taken at two Comic Cons separated by ten years. In both sets of the pics Tatum is wearing a Gambit t-shirt. (See the photos below).
“These pictures are almost 10 years apart to the day,” Tatum writes. “I sat in the audience when Ryan Reynolds showed his first peek of Deadpool 1 to the world and I think I ran back stage right after and found him and I think I just hugged him and was like holy shit you did it man. It’s perfect. I didn’t know him really at all back then. But since then I can say that there is almost no one that has had my back in this industry more than @VancityReynolds.”
Tatum went on to thank Deadpool & Wolverine director Shawn Levy as well. “Truly such a brilliant creator on every single level. All things happen for a reason. I’m so grateful to be in this movie. It’s a masterpiece in my opinion. And just pure bad ass joy. I was literally screaming in the theater.”
In a second IG post, Tatum gave a shout-out to Jackman, Levy and producer Kevin Feige.
“These two beautiful brilliant boys. Man this was an epic moment. Kevin Feige put on one hell of show with this. Getting to share the screen with the one and only Hugh Wolverine Jackman was something only dreams are made of. Thank you Shawn you genius.”
These pictures are almost 10 years apart to the day. I sat in the audience when Ryan Reynolds showed his first peek of Deadpool 1 to the world and I think I ran back stage right after and found him and I think I just hugged him and was like holy shit you did it man. It’s perfect.… pic.twitter.com/B5viY2f7nl
— Channing Tatum (@channingtatum) July 30, 2024
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