Getting Up Close and Personal with the Women of "Doctor Strange"

Marvel – 2016(LOS ANGELES) — Marvel’s upcoming blockbuster movie, Doctor Strange stars Benedict Cumberbatch as an arrogant surgeon-turned-seeker-turned-Sorcerer Supreme. But behind every great man, as they say, are some great women.

Rachel McAdams and Tilda Swinton sat down with ABC’s Chris Connelly to talk all about the movie, and their respective roles.

Strange has already been heralded for it’s eye-popping special effects — effects special enough to excite the movie’s co-stars.

“Magic even for us because these people are so cutting edge they’re inventing the programs kind of a week ago to be honest,” Swinton marveled. “I mean, the film is still wet as far as I know,” she added with a laugh.

Swinton stars as an incarnation as a wise guide to the unseen world, The Ancient One — a character who is bald, originally male, and, as the character’s name implies: OLD. 

The role was specifically written with her in mind, director Scott Derrickson has said, so how did Swinton accept that in youth-obsessed Hollywood? “…[B]eyond accepting that he wanted someone ancient, which I was very happy to take on the chin, yeah,” she laughed.

“No, The Ancient One absolutely does me well. Apart from everything else, people say I’m too young to play someone 700 years old.”

As McAdams’ Dr. Christine Palmer joins Dr. Stephen Strange to mourn the loss of his surgical gifts in an accident, she marveled at Cumberbatch’s craft. “He is so emotionally in touch with his feelings, I mean, we spent a whole day crying and I’ve never cried for that long,” she notes. “You know, and it was take after take after take and I just thought, you’re my rabbit’s foot. I have to take you everywhere with me.”

Doctor Strange opens nationwide on Friday, November 4 from Marvel Studios, which is owned by ABC News’ parent company, Disney.

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