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Every ‘X-Men’ Actor in the ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ Cast: Channing Tatum, Patrick Stewart, James Marsden, Ian McKellen and More


From Channing Tatum's Gambit to Ian McKellen's Magneto and James Marsden's Cyclops, here are all the X-Men stars joining "Avengers: Doomsday."

Also back to the delight of Marvel fans is Channing Tatum as “Gambit.” The actor spent years trying to make a Gambit movie at Fox but it never got off the ground. Lizzy Caplan was set to star opposite Tatum and recently revealed the plan was to put a “screwball romantic comedy spin” on the comic book movie. Tatum told Variety in 2022 that he ended up “traumatized” after spending years trying to make a Gambit movie only for the project to be axed, adding: “I shut off my Marvel machine.

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