Doctor Strange extra goes viral with hammed up background performance

You’d have been forgiven that Benedict Cumberbatch’s performance in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness would be the one which stands out in Marvel’s latest film.

But that was not the case as an extra in the movie stole the show in a clip which has surfaced on social media.

The actress can be seem hamming it up in the background of a scene where Cumberbatch’s Doctor Strange attends his ex-girlfriend’s wedding.

The bewildering background actor first makes a strange glance to someone off-screen before three distinct and bizarre reactions to what the person is saying.

The actress can be seem hamming it up in the background of a scene where Cumberbatch’s Doctor Strange attends his ex-girlfriend’s wedding

The peculiar footage was posted on Twitter after the film’s release on streaming service Disney+

She then appears to look around to avoid looking directly into the camera – a cardinal sin for extras – before accidentally doing so.

The peculiar footage was posted on Twitter after the film’s release on streaming service Disney+.

In the similar frames, a child actor portraying Doctor Emmett Brown’s (Christopher Lloyd) son Verne, does a curious hand gesture towards Michael J Fox’s Marty McFly

The latest extra to go viral comes after similar scenes in Back to the Future: Part Three.

In the similar frames, a child actor portraying Doctor Emmett Brown’s (Christopher Lloyd) son Verne, does a curious hand gesture towards Michael J Fox’s Marty McFly – seemingly asking him to ‘come on’.

The sequence has long baffled fans of the franchise and has never been truly explained.

In the background of a shot of Daniel Craig on a motorbike, the sweeper can be seen brushing the air rather than the ground

Another such wonder is the ghost streetsweeper in Daniel Craig’s first Bond outing, Casino Royale.

In the background of a shot of Daniel Craig on a motorbike, the sweeper can be seen brushing the air rather than the ground.