To be blunt, Rachel McAdams isn’t really the star you think of when reflecting on Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness. While the actress had a prominent role in the blockbuster’s predecessor as romantic interest Dr. Christine Palmer, she was relegated to a much smaller supporting part in the sequel, with series newcomers Elizabeth Olsen and Xochitl Gomez getting much brighter areas of the spotlight. That in mind, it’s a tad surprising that she happens to be the one star from that cast to work on director Sam Raimi’s follow-up movie Send Help – but the behind-the-curtain story is that it just took one scene to convince the filmmaker he needed to work with her again.
Raimi identified this moment while recently speaking with Entertainment Weekly about reuniting with the actress for the 2026 movie. The Marvel sequence in question is from the third act of Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness and plays out when the titular master of the mystic arts is using the Darkhold to take possession of the dead Doctor Strange buried in his home universe. A penalty for using the evil book is that it opens the door for ghosts to attack Strange and Christine, and the director loved how McAdams reacted when he pitched her the scene. Said Raimi,
