Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness director Sam Raimi couldn't resist roasting actress Rachel McAdams, who starred in Marvel's Physician Unusual and its sequel, at her Hollywood Stroll of Fame star ceremony.

"In 2001, Rachel made her movie debut in Shotgun Love Dolls," Raimi mentioned of the Canadian actress, with whom he additionally collaborates on the upcoming movie Ship Assist. "The film opened to unlucky circumstances as all of the seats confronted the display screen. Then in 2002, Rachel got here to Hollywood, the place she starred within the prestigious Sizzling Chicks, thought-about by many because the Citizen Kane of Rob Schneider body-swap films."

The director flubbed the title of Schneider's masterpiece, which is The Sizzling Chick.

Within the 2002 comedy, McAdams performs a catty teen who's became, yep, Saturday Night time Stay alum Schneider, by way of a curse. (For what it's price, the critiques from critics at present stand at 21 % on Rotten Tomatoes.)

Raimi started his speech by saying that the distinction for the star of later gems equivalent to The Pocket book, Imply Women, and Highlight was "a lot deserved," however he saved it humorous.

"Again then, Hollywood was a tricky place to be for a younger actress. And for Rachel, it was no completely different," he mentioned. "Individuals had been imply. They'd stroll throughout her. However after 25 years of very good performances, she's risen to nice heights. And now, due to that star, folks will as soon as once more stroll throughout her."

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He additionally made positive to poke enjoyable at himself.

"Rachel's newest movie is a thriller known as Ship Assist, which can be what Rachel mentioned after she came upon I used to be directing. As her director, I can truthfully state that Rachel McAdams is without doubt one of the greatest actors within the film. There are solely two actors within the film."

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Then he bought severe.

"Congratulations, Rachel," Raimi mentioned. "You might be so variety and thoughtful. You're an excellent collaborator and a superb good friend and an actual film star, somebody to mild up this Hollywood Stroll of Fame. And you might be actually deserving of this honor. And all of us love you. Thanks, Rachel."

McAdams's newest film, Ship Assist, costars Dylan O'Brien, Bruce Campbell, and Dennis Haysbert, in a psychological thriller about two colleagues who’re the one survivors on a abandoned island after a aircraft crash.

Ship Assist arrives in theaters Jan. 30.

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