Channing Tatum finally got the chance to play the superhero Gambit in “Deadpool & Wolverine” after he spent years trying and failing to develop a Gambit film during Fox’s Marvel era. The role is so sacred to him that he recently said in a Vanity Fair video interview that he was too scared to ask to take the Gambit costume home with him after filming wrapped. Tatum always takes home a outfit from set, but not Gambit’s.

“I was too apprehensive to ask,” Tatum said. “And usually, I take the last outfit I wear in every movie, and I was too scared to do it on this one.”

Gambit’s thick Cajun accent is a running joke in “Deadpool & Wolverine,” with Ryan Reynolds’ Deadpool asking at one point: “Who’s your dialect coach? The Minions?” Tatum told Vanity Fair that criticism of the accent is not exactly fair as it was all intentional.

“There was very little improvisation. The Cajun dialect is very distinctive,” Tatum shared with Access Hollywood . “Growing up in Mississippi, my father is from New Orleans. So, it's something I've always been around, but I've never used it in acting. There are certain subtle nuances that are distinctly Cajun, but we intentionally made it somewhat unintelligible. That was the joke.”

“[Ryan would] approach me and say, ‘I don't want to understand anything you're saying in this [take],’ so I just amped it up completely,” Tatum continued. “Then for other takes, he'd be like, ‘Okay, I need to comprehend what you're saying now.'”

After “Deadpool & Wolverine” shattered box office records during its opening weekend, Tatum took to social media to share an emotional message on finally getting the chance to play Gambit on the big screen.

“I thought I had lost Gambit forever. But [Reynolds] advocated for me and Gambit,” he wrote. “I will probably be indebted to him forever. Cause I’m not sure how I could ever do something that would be equivalent to what this has meant to me. I love ya buddy…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 subsequent interview with Variety , Tatum admitted that he is still enthusiastic about making that standalone Gambit movie, adding: “I’ve been saying I want it for the last 10 years. It’s in Bob Iger and Kevin Feige’s hands. I pray to God.”

Check out Tatum’s full interview with Vanity Fair in the video below. “Deadpool & Wolverine” is currently playing in theaters across the country.