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‘Doctor Strange’ Director Owns Up to Whitewashing Controversy

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Filmmaker Scott Derrickson opens up about the MCU’s trippiest film yet, and the shitstorm surrounding his decision to erase The Ancient One’s Asianness.

In Marvel’s Doctor Strange, Benedict Cumberbatch’s brilliant neurosurgeon damages his million-dollar hands in a fateful accident, exhausts all known Western medicine in search of a cure, then goes careening across the world into the mountains of Kathmandu to give Eastern treatments a shot.

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