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Channing Tatum Reveals Exactly What the Deal Was with His Crazy Gambit Accent in ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: Channing Tatum's decade long dream of playing a superhero Gambit
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  Speaker 2: finally came to fruition in Deadpool and Wolverine, and Channing's
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  Speaker 2: performance left no question about the card slinging characters in
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  Speaker 2: New Orleans roots, as his Cajun accent was particularly dripping
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  Speaker 2: in Garlic Butter to the point where he was occasionally unintelligible,
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  Speaker 2: and Channing now wants to make it clear that was
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  Speaker 2: by design. He tells Access Hollywood. There's very little improv
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  Speaker 2: on set, and the Cajun dialect is a very particular one.
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  Speaker 2: I grew up in Mississippi. My dad is from New Orleans,
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  Speaker 2: so I grew up around it. But I've never tried
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  Speaker 2: to recreate it. We actually intended it to be somewhat unintelligible.
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  Speaker 2: That was the joke. Ryan Reynolds would say, I don't
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  Speaker 2: want to know anything you're saying on this take, so
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  Speaker 2: dial it way up. For other takes, he'd say, I've
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  Speaker 2: got to understand you for this one. That's Channing Tatum
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  Speaker 2: clarifying you weren't supposed to always understand him. As Gambut
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  Speaker 2: and Deadpool and Wolverine, For those who didn't quite get
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  Speaker 2: the gag, it's in theaters now.
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  Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood.