'Doctor Strange' News: Rachel McAdams Confirms She's Been Offered Female Lead Role

 

It was recently rumored that actress Rachel McAdams was in contention for a lead female role in Marvel's anticipated 'Doctor Strange' film.

 

The 'True Detective' actress has finally brought light to the situation by confirming she is indeed meeting with the studio about the role, however she doesn't want to raise too much alarm on the issue as she doesn't yet know if it will happen.

 

"It's still super-early days, and I don't know where that's gonna go, if it's gonna go anywhere at all," she told LA Times.

 

She goes on to state that she isn't disinterested in the role, but she also doesn't take on certain projects just because it's expected of her.

 

"I try to shut out ideas about why you should do things," McAdams says. "Trying to do good architecture and really designing a career? There's some attention to be paid to that, but I don't think it's everything."

 

Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige previously spoke on where 'Doctor Strange' would stand in the MCU.

 

"Doctor Strange, for instance, is kind of [in his own world]," he told Zap2it. "He's in New York, but he's a surgeon and he's got his own thing going on, and when he has to try to fix his hands he goes on another journey."

 

"All these movies are connected, so they inhabit -- as the comics did -- the same universe. Like Ant-Man, Doctor Strange lives in a world where aliens came out over Grand Central Station. Again, he also is a brain surgeon. When he's in the operating room, he's not thinking about those other things. He's working on what he's working on."

 

'Doctor Strange' currently stars Benedict Cumberbatch, Tilda Swinton, Chiwetel Ejiofor. It's set to premiere in theaters on November 4, 2016.