Keke Palmer Is ‘Ready’ For Channing Tatum To Play Gambit To Her Rogue: We’ll Be ‘Perfect Together’ (Exclusive)

After dressing arsenic Rogue for Halloween 2022, Keke Palmer is acceptable to springiness fans what they privation by portraying the iconic X-Men character connected the large screen. And she wants to bash it with Channing Tatum, who was expected to play Rogue’s on-again/off-again person Gambit successful a standalone movie earlier the Disney merger with 21st Century Fox successful 2019.

“I judge that maine and Channing Tatum volition beryllium cleanable together, honey,” Keke, 29, told HollywoodLife EXCLUSIVELY when discussing her concern with Doritos for its Big “Dip” Campaign astir its caller enactment of Doritos-flavored dips and Big Dip Energy giveaway.

Keke Palmer; Channing Tatum (Photo: OConnor / AFF-USA.com / MEGA)

“I’m acceptable for him to beryllium my on-screen husband,” the Nope actress added astir Channing, 42. “Or boyfriend, whatever. We don’t adjacent person to person immoderate labels. I’m acceptable for it.”

Keke explained that Channing “doesn’t instrumentality himself excessively seriously,” but he’s besides “quite endearing arsenic a performer.” Keke thinks that operation makes Channing the cleanable Gambit to her Rogue erstwhile the X-Men (eventually) participate the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

“It’s not similar helium doesn’t instrumentality themselves excessively seriously, and he’s similar a jerk off,” Keke said. “It’s like, helium doesn’t instrumentality himself excessively seriously, and it’s like, ‘oh, my gosh, I privation to spot you win.’ And truthful I deliberation that coupled with my benignant of like, ‘oh, you know, I don’t instrumentality myself excessively seriously. But hey, I’m gonna springiness it my champion shot,’ I deliberation together, we could be, like, fab. I emotion the casting already.”

While Anna Paquin notably played Rogue successful Fox’s X-Men films, Channing ne'er got the accidental to play Gambit connected the large screen. He talked astir feeling “traumatized” aft the Gambit movie was scrapped successful an interrogation with Variety in Feb. 2022.

“I shut disconnected my Marvel machine. I haven’t been capable to spot immoderate of the movies,” Channing admitted. “I loved that character. It was conscionable excessively sad. It was similar losing a person due to the fact that I was truthful acceptable to play him.” But Channing did corroborate that he’d play Gambit if fixed the chance. “I would emotion to play Gambit. I don’t deliberation we [him and his longtime shaper spouse Reid Carolin] should nonstop it. I deliberation that was hubris connected our part,” helium said.