Patrick Stewart Has Perfect Response To 'Doctor Strange 2' Speculation

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Marvel Studios unveiled a new trailer for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness during the Super Bowl.
One of the big moments of the trailer seemingly featured the voice of Sir Patrick Stewart.
Stewart famously played Professor X in the X-Men franchise for close to two decades.

If you’re a Marvel Cinematic Universe fan, one of the biggest moments of Super Bowl Sunday didn’t take place during the game at all as Marvel Studios dropped a new trailer for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, their first film of 2022.

While the trailer was jam-packed with mind-blowing teases, there’s no doubt that the highlight was the brief tease of Patrick Stewart’s Professor X, whose iconic voice popped up for the briefest of moments.

During a recent interview, Stewart addressed the speculation in typically cheeky fashion:

“You know, people have been imitating my voice ever since I came on the stage 60 years ago,” Stewart told Comic Book. “So, I can’t be held responsible for that.”

It seems relatively certain that Stewart will appear as Professor X, although odds are that it’s a variant of the character and not the *exact* one we were familiar with from Fox’s X-Men franchise, as that version of the character undoubtedly died during the events of 2017’s Logan.

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, which was directed by Spider-Man filmmaker Sam Raimi and stars Benedict Cumberbatch, Elizabeth Olsen, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Benedict Wong, Xochitl Gomez, Michael Stuhlbarg, Rachel McAdams, Patrick Stewart — and likely many others — is set to hit theaters in the United States on Friday, May 6.