Taylor Kitsch has been taking part in the hand he was dealt in Hollywood since wielding the purple-charged playing cards of Marvel’s Remy LeBeau, a.okay.a. Gambit, in X-Males Origins: Wolverine. Kitsch starred alongside Hugh Jackman’s beloved Logan within the 2009 film, and there have been nonetheless some MCU followers on-line hoping Kitsch would take up and wield Gambit’s bō workers within the billion-dollar blockbuster Deadpool & Wolverine (2024). After all, that did not occur, however Kitsch isn’t dwelling on the previous. Moderately than specializing in the function being recast, Kitsch is shifting ahead full throttle, and when requested if Channing Tatum taking part in Gambit reasonably than him was a “comfortable topic,” Kitsch responded by saying (per Display Rant):
“No, no, in no way, man. That is the enterprise, man. It is all good. It is like I like the trail I am on and the actor I’ve change into and the tales I am partaking in. No pun meant, here is a quote for you, however Gambit wasn’t within the playing cards for me, man.”
Kitsch’s iteration of Gambit performed an integral function in X-Males Origins: Wolverine, however after years of lobbying to play the function, Tatum lastly obtained his want in Deadpool & Wolverine. Tatum’s model of the Ragin’ Cajun was dramatically revealed to Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) and Wolverine (Jackman) — to not point out the followers — together with Jennifer Garner’s Elektra, Wesley Snipes’ Blade, and Dafne Eager’s X-23 in 2024’s billion-dollar blockbuster.
Nonetheless, despite the fact that Tatum will formally be reprising the function of Gambit in Avengers: Doomsday (2026), Kitsch hasn’t slammed the door shut on the MCU. When requested if he would possibly return to Marvel after he spends Eleven Days in hell, the actor mentioned:
“By no means say by no means, however I do not know, man.”
Taylor Kitsch Eyes ‘Eleven Days’ in Hell
Taylor Kitsch has come a great distance since starring as Gambit in one of many worst X-Males motion pictures ever made, and the Critics Alternative Award nominee (Finest Supporting Actor in a Restricted Sequence or Film Made for Tv, Painkiller), will star subsequent in director Peter Landesman’s Eleven Days. The hostage thriller relies on writer William T. Harper’s e book Eleven Days in Hell: The 1974 Carrasco Jail Siege at Huntsville, Texas, and Kitsch couldn’t be extra excited concerning the challenge. The actor mentioned in the identical interview:
“I’ve obtained this e book proper right here, 11 Days in Hell. That is my subsequent challenge. It is one thing I am unable to wait to service. It is a true story about an 11-day negotiation in 1974 in Huntsville Jail. And that scares the sh*t out of me. I am taking part in the director of corrections. Peter Landesman is directing, and it is a true story and I satisfaction myself on taking part in very totally different folks and characters and tales.”
Kitsch, who will probably be portraying the pinnacle of the Texas Division of Corrections, Jim Estelle, continued by saying in the identical sit-down:
“And I believe that is my eighth man that I am taking part in that has lived actually. In order that’s at all times extremely flattering once you get these calls. So, I do not know. I like the place I am at, man, so I’ve no regrets with it [playing Gambit again]. It simply wasn’t [meant to be]. Typically it isn’t in my energy to say who’s who or who will get to play what. So, I can solely deal with the those who need to work with me and collaborate with me.”
Kitsch will probably be costarring with Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and Andor’s personal Diego Luna in Eleven Days, however for these followers dying to see extra of Gambit, Channing Tatum’s model of the Ragin’ Cajun will return when the extremely anticipated Avengers: Doomsday drops in theaters on Dec. 18, 2026. Maybe, MCU followers will even get to see Gambit deal Physician Doom (Robert Downey Jr.) a dropping hand or two.
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April 8, 1981
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Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada