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ACROSS
1 Fit
5 Van Halen icon
10 Shortening in
some cookie
recipes
14 “Keep talking ...”
16 Fade
17 House blends,
e.g.
18 “Likely story”
19 Trap during
January, maybe
20 “Euphoria” actor
Eric
21 Nej : Swedish ::
__ : Russian
22 Doesn’t work
hard
24 Sabermetrics
input
26 Hosp. scan
27 “The Boys of My
Youth” writer Jo
__ Beard
28 Jolly good
30 Lock
32 United in a
cause
35 Word with
string or sing
36 Focus of a diary
in some sleep
therapy sessions
39 Campus group
40 Yellowish pink
41 “And all that”
43 Forrest player
44 Bitey dog
47 Unlikely to
pipe up
48 Buckwheat
noodle
51 Chemical
synthesized
in the liver
53 Sail a zigzag
course
55 Résumé
concerns
57 Put a handle on
58 Gardner of
mystery
59 Chow from a
halal cart, e.g.
61 Caught up to,
in a way
62 Yoga class
respite
63 Covers up a
plot?
64 Five Pillars faith
65 Taylor-Joy of
“The Queen’s
Gambit”DOWN
1 Aegean
peninsula
2 Boston street
where Cheers is
located
3 Retailer with
Outdoor
Discovery
programs
4 Golden Globe
winner Tracee
__ Ross
5 Fell
6 During
7 Reproductive
gland
8 __ rock
9 Starts over
10 Either “Twelfth
Night” sibling
11 Vacay for
parents-to-be
12 Disdainful
13 __ zoo
15 Experts
who prefer
open-minded
people?
23 “No need to
convince me”
25 Flashes of
insight
29 Ribs31 “Chocolat”
actress
32 Aleve target
33 Cy Young stat
34 Muscle worked
by a reverse fly,
for short
36 Rake
37 Repurposed
creatively,
as trash
38 Wildly39 Elements of
Petrarchan
sonnets
42 Mind field, for
short
44 “That can’t
possibly be true”
45 Weirded out
46 Herbal brew
49 Mikvehs, e.g.
50 National Scrab-
ble Day month52 City across
from the
Sunshine
Skyway Bridge
54 Shoe brand with
a Kate Spade
New York
collection
56 Actress Ward
60 Genre that
includes
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wouldn’t be told.... And yes, we
have to be on guard for any ho-
mogenized lack of choice. But you
don’t have to look far to see there
is a wide spectrum of art, and
audiences are all about art. So live
and let live.”
Cumberbatch’s movies have
faced minor barbs for their por-
trayals of LGBTQ characters, in-
cluding “Power of the Dog” facing
criticism from Sam Elliott and the
“Doctor Strange” sequel reported-
ly creating conflict with Saudi
Arabia. He says what’s at stake is
much more than the politics
around a movie, calling the latter
situation an “expected disap-
pointment.”
“To think this is a historic issue
is a massive underestimation of
the real-world problems that peo-
ple in excluded communities
face,” Cumberbatch said. “Another
important aspect of making films
on this scale: I’m able to highlight
the fact that people are not just
excluded, but they are beaten,
tortured and sometimes executed
for their sexuality in 2022. I’m
very proud to be an ally of those
oppressed and sometimes under-
represented communities to pro-
mote equality that should exist in
our lives.”
Cumberbatch’s Doctor Strange
remains one of the most recogniz-
able Marvel Studios superheroes,
in part because of how dedicated
he is to getting the comic-book
look right. A key factor in his
transformation: his goatee. His
secret?
“Keep it real,” Cumberbatch
said, which he does with the help
of a stylist. “As in don’t have a fake
one. Without a man who knows
what to do with a razor and a good
bit of lighting and mirrors? I’d be
at a loss.”Michael Cavna contributed to this
report.wasn’t off-putting in the slightest
to think about his strengths and
his status in this genre and the
horror genre, both of which are
aligning in this movie. It just felt
like a good fit and the right person
to be taking this rich, complex
character into the most bonkers
story and adventure that he’s had
to date.”
Raimi said Cumberbatch eased
the director’s return to superhero
moviemaking with his dedication.
“He wanted us to be true to
Doctor Strange and not play the
obvious,” Raimi said. “He would
always challenge me and chal-
lenge the material to be the best it
could be.”
Lately, a role as a Marvel Stu-
dios superhero is as critic-proof as
you can get in Hollywood. The
die-hards, and the box office mon-
ey, will be there. Cumberbatch
recognizes the growing divide be-
tween dedicated fanboys and the
movie critics who would prefer
superhero movies stop being
made. He knows there are those
who would much rather see him
in movies such as “The Power of
the Dog,” the Netflix western that
brought him an Academy Award
nomination for best actor.
But Cumberbatch credits “larg-
er fare” such as Doctor Strange
with allowing him to take on films
such as “The Mauritanian,” the
story of a Mauritanian man who
spent 14 years in a Guantánamo
Bay detention camp before finally
being released in 2016, and “The
Courier,” about a businessman re-
cruited to be a spy in the Cold War.
“I love doing both sort of sides
to the cultural argument. I’m not
interested in one or the other over
one or the other,” Cumberbatch
said. “We’ve always lived in a
system that either through stu-
dios or stars has helped to finance
smaller fare and draw attention to
important stories that otherwisethere’s also key differences,” Cum-
berbatch said. “It was a challenge
... t o create something that’s dif-
ferent but at the same time recog-
nizably Strange. There’s an el-
ement of him that’s constant. But
he’s still really injured by his ego
and his arrogance and his belief
that he has to be the one holding
the knife. This film really undoes
that logic and stress-tests him in a
way that means his evolution is
such that he can’t operate as a
solo entity. He has to collaborate.”
The Avenger more experienced
with alternate realities is Olsen’s
Scarlet Witch, after her time on
“WandaVision.” That show’s
themes of grief and denial bleed
into Olsen’s role in “Multiverse of
Madness,” and she told The Post
that Wanda and Doctor Strange
are more alike than they realize.
“I think these characters are
meant to be in the same world
together,” Olsen said. “It’s exciting
that we actually get to put them in
the same world because they have
an understanding of each other.
They’re both kind of indepen-
dents in a way.”
In the director’s chair is Sam
Raimi, whom many consider to be
the godfather of superhero cin-
ema. Twenty years ago, he direct-
ed Tobey Maguire in the first
“Spider-Man” movie, a film credit-
ed with opening the door to the
current superhero dominance in
the entertainment industry.
“The guy is so humble, and he
had a hard task. He was coming
into this late and hasn’t done it in
a while,” Cumberbatch said, refer-
ring to Raimi returning to super-
hero movies to replace original
director, Scott Derrickson, who
helmed the first Doctor Strange
film in 2016 (and reportedly left
over “creative differences”). “It
BENEDICT FROM C1
Doctor Strange’s return
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Benedict Cumberbatch runs by fans at t he premiere of “ Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.”