Masters Of Sex star Lizzy Caplan has joined the cast of Gambit, the high-profile X-Men spin-off over at 20th Century Fox. The actress joins Channing Tatum, who will play the title character in the film, and director Gore Verbinski (Pirates of the Caribbean).
Trade bible Variety says that Caplan will play the female lead of the film, the role of Bella Donna Boudreaux, the daughter of the leader of the New Orleans Assassins’ Guild and Remy LeBeau’s first love.
Tatum will play the ragin’ Cajun whose ability to ‘control kinetic energy enables him to weaponize playing cards and other projectiles’. The film has a release date of February 14th, 2019 penciled in.
Here’s some more on the character from the official Marvel Wiki.
Abandoned at birth due to his burning red eyes, the child who would one day become Remy LeBeau was kidnapped from his hospital ward by members of the New Orleans Thieves’ Guild who referred to the child as “le diable blanc” – the white devil. They believed he was the child that had been prophesied to unite the warring Guilds. Soon after, Remy was placed in the care of a gang of street thieves who raised the child and taught him the ways of thievery.
Later, when he was around ten years old, Remy attempted to pick the pocket of Jean-Luc LeBeau, then-patriarch of the Thieves’ Guild. Jean-Luc took the boy in off the streets and adopted him into his own family. As part of a peace pact between the Thieves’ Guild and their rivals, the Assassin’s Guild, a marriage was arranged between Remy and Bella Donna Boudreaux, the granddaughter of the head of the Assassin’s Guild. However, Bella Donna’s brother Julien objected to the marriage and challenged Gambit to a duel. Remy killed Julien in self-defense but was excommunicated and banished from New Orleans in an attempt to maintain the nonaggression pact between the two guilds.
More on the Gambit movie when it comes in.
