Extra strange Cumberbatch upstaged by energetic background performance

A lot of the criticism directed towards Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness pertains to that final word.

- Stuart Heritage

Aside from a brief montage of Doctor Strange being quickly flung through a bunch of multiverses, the film just wasn't mad enough for most people.

Well, more fool us. A clip from the movie has just gone viral, and it contains perhaps the maddest thing put to film in the past decade.

We just didn't notice it at the time, because it happened in the background. If you've seen the film, you will know that there is a small, quiet scene in which Doctor Strange attends the wedding of his former girlfriend.

In the foreground, Benedict Cumberbatch does lots of complicated internal work to show his discomfort with the situation.

But watch the scene again. Look at the extra sitting behind him. She absolutely loses her mind. Within the space of 26 seconds, the extra looks offscreen as if calling across to an old acquaintance.

She gives a quick burst of three wildly distinct reactions to this unseen friend (that taken as a whole read as her learning of a minor scandal, absorbing the full weight of its sexiness and then knowingly agreeing to keep it to herself) and then aggressively scans the front of the church, the church's ceiling and her own knees.