Channing Tatum has spoken with Digital Spy about his starring role in Fox’s upcoming Gambit movie, detailing a little bit about his preparation process.

The interview asked about the costume choice for the movie, and whether we’d be seeing the distinctive pink or purple suit? Tatum’s response, “That’s kind of the fun part, to massage it. You can’t just, like, do it how people think. You want to give it some base of reality. If you do it, you got to make it sort of relative to the reality.”

When asked about Gambit’s distinctive Cajun accent, Tatum said “I’m from the South, so I know who to go to to find the accent. I haven’t found ‘the guy’ yet, because generally that’s how I do accents. I’ll find the person I want to sound like and not just do a generic Cajun accent. So I haven’t found the guy yet.”

And finally, he touched on Gambit’s weapon of choice – playing cards – saying, “Cards are always – they’re right there, actually” and nodding off-camera.

Producer Reid Carolin also added a few details about the movie, saying “This is a standalone movie and it’s the story of Gambit and we’ll probably gradually integrate that character into the X-Men universe as we go. As far as what characters from the X-Men universe make it into the movie – we’re not exactly sure yet, so we’re figuring it out. It’s still at the script stage… it’s his story in new Orleans.”

So what are we thinking about this one then, based on what we’ve heard so far?

Gambit is set to hit cinemas on October 7th, 2016.

The writer of this piece was: Craig Neilson-Adams (aka Ceej)
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