Josh Holloway to Play Gambit in X-Men

'Lost' star Josh Holloway is being tipped to star in the next X-Men movie. Holloway, who plays fan favorite Sawyer on the hit TV show, will be cast as Gambit, the X-man comic book mutant who possesses the ability to charge objects with energy, causing them to explode.
Holloway was set to appear in “X-Men 3”, but had to decline the offer. "He auditioned. He signed. He was ready for work”, a source told Moviehole.
“They may say that they just didn’t have a use for him in that movie, but the truth is, Lost wouldn’t let him go for the period of time it was going to take to film his part”.
The film's producer Lauren Shuler Donner told Moviehole, "Remember in Lost? There was a guy in there that was the perfect Gambit, the guy with the straight hair, good-looking, the bad boy… Sawyer. The reason we didn't use Gambit was because in a sense his persona is a bit like Wolverine in that he's got attitude and his power is not quite as exciting as the others."
"That's why we went to Nightcrawler on 2 because he looked different than everybody else and he had a great power. So yes, I think we would weave Gambit within our story, (but) it wouldn't be The Gambit Movie."

Josh Holloway Coulda Been Your Real Estate Agent

Josh Holloway, who plays hunky con man Sawyer on 'Lost', recently told Time magazine that he was like THISCLOSE to giving up his dreams of being a big Hollywood star and going off somewhere to sell real estate. Luckily, he landed his big break on the popular TV show.
Yet even with being a regular on Lost, he thinks his performances on the show are at times wobbly: "...I suck at it sometimes because I get confused."
When asked how he balances playing the complicated Sawyer, a man who is both callous and sensitive, Josh says, "It's been a nice evolution. I miss the simplicity of Sawyer's hard line -- when you're an ass, it's easy. [LOL] I like the subtleties of everything else, but I suck at it sometimes because I get confused."
One thing he does love is that he gets to keep his natural southern drawl (he grew up in Georgia) while playing Sawyer. Josh says, "By nature Southerners like to throw out sayings that help add a little comedy when something's not so comical. But I've got to get back to learning how to lose [the accent] again. For eight years in Hollywood, all I heard was 'get rid of that accent.'"
While Josh acknowledges that 'Lost' was his big break, he admits he thought success would happen to him a lot earlier than it did.
The 38-year-old actor says, "When I first started, I thought, 'I'm gonna be a big star.' Then eight years later, I was skeptical. [Laughs] I was going to move to the country, pursue real estate and be a forest ranger."
"My real estate license came in the mail three days before i booked 'Lost,' he says. "I thought, 'Wow, I'll file that.'"