“Mean Girls” is currently getting the musical treatment for a new film based on Tina Fey’s Tony-winning Broadway adaptation. McAdams harbors no regrets and many of her early films such as “Mean Girls” and “The Notebook” remain classics. There were definitely some anxious moments of wondering if I was just throwing it all away, and why was I doing that? It’s taken years to understand what I intuitively was doing.” “But I also knew it wasn’t quite jiving with my personality and what I needed to stay sane. “I felt guilty for not capitalizing on the opportunity that I was being given, because I knew I was in such a lucky spot,” McAdams said about turning down these films and taking a two-year break from Hollywood as her career was surging.
Christine Palmer in 2022’s “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.”
McAdams waited to enter the superhero universe until 2016’s “Doctor Strange” and reprised the role of Dr. All five movies which McAdams rejected, released between 20, ended up being box office hits, with “Casino Royale” reigniting the Bond franchise with Daniel Craig in the role (presumably McAdams was up for Eva Green’s role) and the first “Iron Man” launching the Marvel Cinematic Universe.