Benedict Cumberbatch made his appearance as Doctor
Strange in Spider-Man: No Way Home, and the actor heaped praise on the MCU film
in a recent interview.

Cumberbatch showered
praise on the film and the script, calling it a “humdinger.” He added
that he is astonished at the film’s success but understands the love of fans as
it is “a brilliant Spider-Man film.” In a chat with Collider

Apart from Tom
Holland, Andrew Garfield and Tobey Maguire reprised their roles as Spider-Man
in the Jon Watts-directed film. Because Spider-Man: No Way Home dealt with the
multiverse, fans got to see three different versions of the web slinger.
Supervillains from previous Spider-Man film franchises, such as Alfred Molina’s
Doc Ock and Willem Dafoe’s Green Goblin, also made the transition to the MCU to
face the three Spider-Men.

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No Way Home was
a love letter to the wall-cinematic crawler’s journey, as well as a tribute to
Garfield and Maguire. Strange was partially responsible for the multiverse rift
that allowed beings from other universes to cross over. Peter had asked Strange
for a spell that would make everyone forget he was Spider-Man, but he included
too many exceptions, such as Aunt May and MJ, and the spell failed.

Cumberbatch also recalled one of the film’s final
scenes, in which Strange and Peter (Holland) are standing atop the Statue of
Liberty and Holland is having script problems.

“And then,
we did the reshoots and I came up with this idea of, to show that I love him, I
didn’t want him to make the sacrifice of being forgotten. He was like, ‘That’s going to be in the film.’ And I was like, ‘Okay,
cool. That’s great’, “Cumberbatch said.”

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Cumberbatch was
nominated for an Academy Award for his role in Jane Campion’s The Power of the
Dog.