Benedict Wong cast as Wong in Marvel's 'Dr. Strange'

British actor will play the Sorcerer Supreme's trusted manservant.



British actor Benedict Wong will appear alongside Benedict Cumberbatch in Marvel's Doctor Strange as Wong, the Sorcerer Supreme's faithful and trusty sidekick. Because every good superhero needs a manservant.

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First introduced in 1963's Strange Tales #110, Wong is Stephen Strange's right-hand man, serving as housekeeper, chef, medic, personal assistant and confidant in matters of the mystic. Among his functions is to look after Strange's body when the hero is astral projecting himself into other dimensional planes. While he doesn't possess any magical or superhuman powers, he is a master martial artist (of course).

So yeah, an Asian sidekick to the white hero. (Sigh.)

Hollis Wong-Wear is nobody's sidekick

"To be immediately labeled in boldface as a white guy's sidekick is fundamentally insulting."



Seattle-based singer/songwriter and creative producer Hollis Wong-Wear has served as tour manager for Blue Scholars, sang the Grammy-nominated hook on Macklemore's "White Walls," and recently released her latest EP Love Notes with her electronic group The Flavr Blue. She is an artist. She is a hustler. She is a badass.

She is not, however, anybody's sidekick.

Tell that to the Seattle Times editor who bestowed "sidekick" status on Hollis with this headline: "Warmth and intimacy from The Flavr Blue, with Macklemore sidekick Hollis Wong-Wear." The headline has since been changed to remove the "sidekick" reference, but not before Hollis noticed and called it out in a Facebook post.

"To be immediately labeled in boldface as a white guy's sidekick is fundamentally insulting."