Rachel McAdams

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q190386: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

No film of theirs is counted: acting and studio count only when asked for, so what they drew on and who drew on them comes only from the lines with them at one end. Count them as actor (17 films) instead.

Draws on

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Acting (26) everyone in acting

Other (2) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

career (6)

  1. career (career): Rachel McAdams → The Notebook. Rachel McAdams's 2004 gets credit for both Mean Girls and The Notebook.
    “Which, and I think you really have to credit Rachel McAdams for both of those.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:21:36 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. career (career run): Rachel McAdams → The Notebook. 2004 brought Mean Girls then The Notebook then Wedding Crashers, the 'trilogy' that gave McAdams career power.
    “2004 is Mean Girls and then the notebook.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:26:46 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. career (career): Rachel McAdams → Mean Girls. Her Send Help charisma echoes the Regina George mix of evil and charming.
    “it's the Rachel McAdams Regina George thing where it is, it can be evil or it can be really charming”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 0:57:12 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. career (career): Rachel McAdams → Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. McAdams was in a Raimi film but terribly underused in it.
    “when we saw the trailer for Dr. Strange 2 directed by Sam Raimi, she was in flashback”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 1:06:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  5. career (career): LaKeith Stanfield → Rachel McAdams. Stanfield is like McAdams: funny, but credible in superhero or serious drama.
    “he's kind of similar to Rachel McAdams to me and that he's funny and can do comedy”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 1:19:00 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  6. career (career): Rachel McAdams → Doctor Strange. McAdams's Doctor Strange role as Christine Palmer rules her out as Invisible Woman.
    “forgetting that she is in Doctor Strange”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 0:54:22 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

industry (1)

  1. industry (MTV Movie Awards moment): Rachel McAdams → Ryan Gosling. The Notebook pair's MTV Movie Awards stage appearance was a landmark for college women.
    “Very important to generation of women.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 1:05:04 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)

lineage (2)

  1. lineage (lineage): Rachel McAdams → Screwball comedians of the 1930s. Her comic energy recalls 30s screwball comedians who are both smartest and dumbest in the room.
    “She reminds me a lot of 30s kind of screwball comedians”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 1:04:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (lineage): Rachel McAdams → Red Eye. Red Eye is a similar plane-set thriller to Send Help.
    “number 10 is a similar kind of movie to send help, which is Red eye.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 1:07:44 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

people (1)

  1. people (people): Mean Girls → Rachel McAdams. Juliet argues Rachel McAdams, not Lindsay Lohan, is the real protagonist of Mean Girls.
    “Do you think that I guess you would make that would be arguing that she's the protagonist of Mean Girls”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:17:44 · Juliet Litman (0.50 sure it was them)

programming (2)

  1. programming (recommendation): Rachel McAdams → Red Eye. Red Eye is called very underrated.
    “And the very underrated redeye.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:26:52 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. programming (recommendation): Rachel McAdams → Morning Glory. Juliet pushes Morning Glory as a wonderful underrated McAdams rom-com.
    “This is a great time to remind everyone to watch the wonderful film, Morning Glory”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:27:18 · Juliet Litman (0.60 sure it was them)

theme (1)

  1. theme (theme): Rachel McAdams → John Wick. McAdams has a unique skillset and can kill you many ways.
    “She's kind of like John Wick.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 1:16:38 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)

unmapped (1)

  1. unmapped (star power): Renee Rapp → Rachel McAdams. The 2004 film's success depended on the anti-chemistry and star power of Lindsay Lohan and Rachel McAdams, which the new cast lacks.
    “the absence of Lindsay Lohan and the Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams kind of anti-chemistry and star power is a big part of why that movie is so successful.”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 0:57:24 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)

what-if (1)

  1. what-if (role swap what-if): Lindsay Lohan → Rachel McAdams. They were originally cast in opposite roles; McAdams would have been too old to be believable as homeschooled Cady.
    “Originally an edition for the opposite roles.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:50:51 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Rachel McAdams: They recall being shocked McAdams was 27 when she played Regina; later debate whether she was 25.
    “I remember being shocked to find out she was 27 when she was in Mean Girls.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:26:27 · Juliet Litman (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Rachel McAdams: Who won the movie: McAdams, who came out of nowhere and made an all-time character, beats Lohan at her peak.
    “I just think Rachel McAdams comes out of nowhere.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 1:18:18 · Juliet Litman (0.45 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Rachel McAdams: Wedding Crashers, fascinatingly, ranks only thirteenth among her most popular films on Letterboxd.
    “Actually, Wedding Crashers, fascinatingly, is number 13.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 1:07:09 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Rachel McAdams: Letterboxd's most popular McAdams films: Mean Girls first, then The Notebook, Midnight in Paris sixth, Spotlight seventh, Game Night eighth, Sherlock Holmes ninth, Red Eye tenth.
    “Number 7 is a movie that I always forget that she's in.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 1:07:27 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about Rachel McAdams: Her generation list: 22 actresses, only about five (Hathaway, Johansson, Stone, Saldana, Blunt) truly emerged.
    “So that's 22 stars.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 1:12:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)