Nov. 1, 2016 "Strange days on big screen": Today I found this article by Bob Thompson the Edmonton Journal:
As part of the Doctor Strange world promotional tour, Rachel McAdams was at her Toronto base of operations recently to chat up the Marvel superhero flick.
Despite visiting previous exotic locations, she confirms there is no place like home. “I feel fulfilled when I’m here,” says the 37-yearold.
In the Scott Derrickson-directed fantasy, McAdams plays Dr. Christine Palmer, an ex-girlfriend and colleague of Doctor Strange (played by Benedict Cumberbatch).
She has to deal with him before and after his elaborate transition.
That occurs when Strange, a surgeon, severely damages his hands in a car wreck and then seeks an almost impossible cure.
His search for a remedy eventually takes him to Kamar-Taj in Kathmandu, where he meets the immortal Ancient One (Tilda Swinton), who trains Strange in the art of conjuring up magic and alternate dimensions.
Unfortunately, the Strange transformation puts him on a collision course with an all-powerful former student of the Ancient One.
Last year, McAdams earned an Oscar nomination for her performance as a reporter in the newspaper procedural Spotlight.
She’s dabbled in other genres, too, including a co-starring role in two high-concept Sherlock Holmes pictures after breaking out in the teen flick Mean Girls and the romantic drama The Notebook.
Doctor Strange marks her introduction into the superhero world.
The always-engaging McAdams offers her thoughts:
On acting opposite Cumberbatch:
“You always hope people you admire are just as great in person,” McAdams says.
“And he’s really one of the good human beings and a great actor.
“And he was so easygoing that you didn’t think for a minute he had the weight of playing Doctor Strange on his shoulders.”
On the interplay between their doctors:
Derrickson “came up with this idea where they already had been in a relationship and came out the other side,” McAdams says. “It was a better jumping off point for us.”
On defining Dr. Palmer, an amalgamation of characters from the comics:
“There was some creative freedom because of that, and it took the pressure off,” McAdams says.
On collaborating with filmmaker Derrickson:
“Scott was so excited about doing this movie,” McAdams says. “He’s a self-proclaimed disciple, but he always had an eye on the humour and kept it going.”
On portraying a doctor after shadowing neurosurgeons at Toronto and London hospitals:
“Everything was super-fascinating and in a pinch I could probably suture someone up now,” McAdams says. “And, it was so nice to wear scrubs all the time on set.”
On turning down an opportunity to do a shift on an Air Evac helicopter:
“I am so sad I had to turn it down because I’m a terrible flyer and I am really queasy about blood,” she says.
On how that contrasts with her mother’s profession:
“My mom’s a nurse and I did not inherit that gene,” McAdams says. “But I was always fascinated by what she did because it was so far from anything I really understood.”
On doing the extensive world promotional tour for Doctor Strange:
“It’s odd for a moment and then you get into it,” she says. “We’re in this bubble when we’re working on a movie, so later it’s nice to have direct contact with the fans.”
On continuing to stay low-profile:
“I hope it makes me better at my job to be away from the industry.”
In Toronto after her successes: On rumours of another Mean Girls and a third Sherlock Holmes movie:
“I personally have not heard a thing for either,” McAdams says. “Maybe it’s wishful thinking, but it’s still nice to be wanted.”
On her recent joke suggesting that her Regina George character from Mean Girls would probably be working on Donald Trump’s presidential campaign:
“I was just being silly.”
Nov. 14, 2016 Ryan Reynolds: ‘Deadpool’ Gave Me A “Nervous Breakdown”:
The actor is featured on the cover of GQ’s 2016 Men of the Year issue, for which he speaks about his big career comeback with this year’s superhero blockbuster Deadpool.
“When it finally ended, I had a little bit of a nervous breakdown. I literally had the shakes,” Reynolds tells the magazine of his experience making the movie. “I went to go see a doctor because I felt like I was suffering from a neurological problem or something. And every doctor I saw said, ‘You have anxiety.’”
His unease was mostly in part to finally reaching the end of a strenuous 11-year journey to get Deadpool onto the big screen.
Reynolds had lobbied hard to make a film adaptation about the irreverent superhero, but not a single studio was willing to put up money for an R-rated comic book movie about a little-known character.
But Reynolds explains that when test footage leaked online and went viral in 2014, 20th Century Fox “responded to that groundswell by saying, ‘Okay, here’s the absolute bare minimum amount of money that we will give this character. Let us know when the movie’s done.’”
Of course, Deadpool went on to become one of the biggest surprise hits of 2016, not to mention the highest-grossing movie in the entire X-Men franchise. “We made our production budget back on Friday,” Reynolds notes. “There’s a certain vindication that comes with that, especially because the studio – granted, under different regimes – for years just kept telling us to go ***k ourselves sterile.”
But when asked if Fox would increase the budget for the upcoming sequel, Reynolds responded, “Are you insane? That never happens, trust me. And the first time, it was almost like the more Fox took away from us, the stronger we got.
There’s two moments in the movie where I forget my ammo bag. That’s not because Deadpool’s forgetful. That’s because we couldn’t afford the guns that we’re about to use in the scene.”
Jan. 17, 2017 "Clever Deadpool dreams of Oscar": Today I found this article by Michael Cavna in the Edmonton Journal. I can't access the article so I will have to type up this part.
Fox had give director Tim Miller to make a Deadpool test reel. In summer 2014, it was leaked on the internet. They then got the green light. Ryan Reynolds, Miller, and writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick won't tell which one of them leaked it.
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