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Ryan Reynolds and Patrick Stewart are addressing rumors that they will appear in the upcoming _Doctor Strange_ sequel. Last week, a new trailer for the forthcoming movie — titled _Doctor

Strange in the Multiverse of Madness_ — aired during Super Bowl LVI. In the clip, fans noticed a voice sounding very similar to Stewart's saying, "We should tell him the

truth." The British actor, 81, previously starred as the telekinetic Professor Charles Xavier in Marvel's _X-Men_ film series. Stewart was asked about the speculation in a recent

interview with Comic Book, though he played coy about his involvement in the sequel. "You know, people have been imitating my voice ever since I came on the stage 60 years ago,"

Stewart told the outlet. "So, I can't be held responsible for that." Meanwhile, Reynolds, 45 — who stars as Deadpool in the Marvel Cinematic Universe — also denied claims that

he is in the film after fans noticed what they believe to be an image of the anti-hero in a poster. (Disney has also merged with 20th Century Fox, which owned the first two _Deadpool

_movies.) "I guess I'm not really supposed to say anything about that, but I'm really not in the movie," Reynolds told _Variety_. "I could be an unreliable narrator,

but I promise you I'm not in the movie." _NEVER MISS A STORY — SIGN UP FOR __PEOPLE'S FREE DAILY NEWSLETTER__ TO STAY UP-TO-DATE ON THE BEST OF WHAT PEOPLE HAS TO OFFER, FROM

JUICY CELEBRITY NEWS TO COMPELLING HUMAN INTEREST STORIES._ In the action-packed trailer, Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) enlists the help of Elizabeth Olsen's Wanda

Maximoff/Scarlett Witch to control colliding universes. He also comes face-to-face with his dark variant, Strange Supreme, who previously appeared in the Disney+ series _What If...?_ The

film is directed by Sam Raimi — who previously directed the Tobey Maguire–led _Spider-Man_ movies in the early 2000s — and also sees the return of Rachel McAdams as Dr. Christine Palmer,

Benedict Wong as Wong, and Chiwetel Ejiofor as Strange's mentor-turned-enemy Karl Mordo. Xochitl Gomez will also make her MCU debut as America Chavez. Last year, Olsen, 32, spoke to

_Variety_ about filming the _Doctor Strange_ sequel after wrapping _WandaVision_ and how the stories inform each other. She earned an Emmy nomination for her performance in the limited

series. "I didn't know my part in _Doctor Strange_ until right before we got back to filming during the pandemic. We had two months left and we'd filmed the majority of our

show already," she recalled at the time. "Really, I knew nothing until that moment when they pitched [_Doctor Strange 2_] to me verbally." Olsen added, "So I tried, as

much as I could, almost less so, to have it affect _WandaVision_ as have _WandaVision_ affect it. I think that's really been where the connection is. It's almost like we're

trying to make sure that everything is honoring what we did [on the show]." _Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness_ hits theaters on May 6.