{"id":414377,"date":"2026-02-08T09:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T09:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/414377\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T09:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T09:55:09","slug":"sam-raimi-promised-himself-to-work-with-rachel-mcadams-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/414377\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Raimi &#8220;Promised&#8221; Himself To Work With Rachel McAdams Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAfter <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/sam-raimi\/\" id=\"auto-tag_sam-raimi\" data-tag=\"sam-raimi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sam Raimi<\/a> worked with <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/rachel-mcadams\/\" id=\"auto-tag_rachel-mcadams\" data-tag=\"rachel-mcadams\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rachel McAdams<\/a> in the <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/mcu\/\" id=\"auto-tag_mcu\" data-tag=\"mcu\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MCU<\/a>, he was determined to reunite with the actress for a much juicier role.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/send-help\/\" id=\"auto-tag_send-help\" data-tag=\"send-help\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Send Help<\/a> director explained why he \u201cpromised myself I would work with her again\u201d after previously directing her in <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/dr-strange\/\" id=\"auto-tag_dr-strange\" data-tag=\"dr-strange\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Strange<\/a> in the Multiverse of Madness (2022), in which she played Dr. Christine Palmer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cFirst, she was the perfect person because she\u2019s such a brilliant actress,\u201d he recently told <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/totalfilm\/status\/2020211000100942269?s=20\">Total Film<\/a>. \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<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tRaimi continued, \u201cThe fact that she has not really played a dark, terrible villain before\u2014[producer Zainab Azizi] is the one that told me this\u2014really sets the audience up to be surprised.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn Send Help, Linda (McAdams) and her overbearing boss Bradley (Dylan O\u2019Brien) survive a plane crash and become stranded on a deserted island, where their past office grievances become a violent fight for survival.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cBecause the movie\u2019s focus is, not a whodunnit, but what comes next, that\u2019s what really the movie wants to do to the audience,\u201d explained Raimi. \u201cThey don\u2019t know what\u2019s right around the corner. It turns left when they think it\u2019s gonna turn right, that was an important factor, that she, this good person that we know and love, becomes this terrible villain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSend Help is now playing in theaters, currently on track to reach No. 1 at the box office in its second weekend, which is competing with Super Bowl XL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After Sam Raimi worked with Rachel McAdams in the MCU, he was determined to reunite with the actress&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,153371,153372,96,7468,47403,52332,86284,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-414377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-dr-strange","tag-dr-strange-in-the-multiverse-of-madness","tag-entertainment","tag-mcu","tag-rachel-mcadams","tag-sam-raimi","tag-send-help","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}