“Grey’s Anatomy” star Patrick Dempsey is looking to play a role of a different kind. The actor wants to go from Dr. McDreamy to Dr. Strange.
Dempsey, who has a role in the upcoming third installment of the Transformers saga, “Transformers: Dark of the Moon,” tells the Los Angeles Times that he’s ready to take his career to a different level, and is vying for the role of Marvel Comics sorcerer, Dr. Strange.
“There’s a whole bunch of people who are into comics and Marvel, too, on the set and they’re like, ‘Doctor Strange, that’s the one you should do.’ It would be fantastic,” says the 45-year-old actor.
Dr. Strange is on a short list of superheros slated for film action by Kevin Feige, president of Marvel Studios. “I have not been shy about my love for Dr. Strange, Black Panther and Luke Cage,” Feige said in an interview last December.
Apparently, Dempsey’s appeal in the role is not lost on Feige. “He knows what’s going on,” says Dempsey. “There was stuff going on. At Comic-Con they were talking about me playing it and there was a rumor that I’d been cast. I mean, it’s something that’s kind of out there and, you know, I’ve been looking at that. It would be a fun one to do. Hopefully, doing something like ‘Transformers’ is about to show myself in an action situation where I’m not mister-weepy-doctor guy, you know, not McDreamy. You have to change that in people’s view. I’m still hungry for other things. I’d love to play Doctor Strange.”
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Patrick Dempsey – Adriana M. Barazza/WENN
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