{"id":2271852,"date":"2026-02-07T22:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T22:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2271852"},"modified":"2026-02-07T22:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T22:00:12","slug":"sam-raimi-says-rachel-mcadams-was-underutilized-in-doctor-strange-promised-myself-that-i-would-work-with-her-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/sam-raimi-says-rachel-mcadams-was-underutilized-in-doctor-strange-promised-myself-that-i-would-work-with-her-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Raimi Says Rachel McAdams Was \u2018Underutilized\u2019 in \u2018Doctor Strange\u2019: \u2018Promised Myself That I Would Work With Her Again\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sam Raimi<\/a> told Total Film<\/a> that Rachel McAdams<\/a> was \u201cunderutilized\u201d in his 2022 MCU sequel \u201cDoctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness<\/a>,\u201d and after that movie, he \u201cpromised\u201d himself he would work with her again. This pledge led to Raimi<\/a> casting McAdams in his latest comedy thriller, \u201cSend Help<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFirst, she was the perfect person because she\u2019s such a brilliant actress,\u201d Raimi said. \u201cI had a chance to work with her on my last film and saw how talented she was and actually underutilized, and I promised myself that I would work with her again. And then this film came up, and her warmth is wonderful.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added, \u201cThe fact that she has not really played a dark, terrible villain before, [producer Zainab Azizi<\/a>] is the one that told me this, really sets the audience up to be surprised.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSend Help<\/a>\u201d follows an underutilized and undervalued employee (McAdams) and her younger,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sam Raimi told Total Film that Rachel McAdams was \u201cunderutilized\u201d in his 2022 MCU sequel \u201cDoctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness,\u201d and after that movie, he \u201cpromised\u201d himself he would work with her again. This pledge led to Raimi casting McAdams in his latest comedy thriller, \u201cSend Help.\u201d \u201cFirst, she was the perfect person […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2271853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2271852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Sam-Raimi-Says-Rachel-McAdams-Was-\u2018Underutilized-in-\u2018Doctor-Strange.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2271852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2271852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2271852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2271854,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2271852\/revisions\/2271854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2271853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2271852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2271852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2271852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}