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Javier Ángel Encinas Bardem (born 1 March 1969) is a Spanish-American actor. In a career that has lasted over thirty years, he has received various accolades, including an Academy Award, seven Goya Awards, a BAFTA Award, and a Golden Globe Award. A son of actress Pilar Bardem, he first became known for such Spanish films as Jamón jamón(1992), Boca a boca (1995), Carne trémula(1997), Los lunes al sol (2002), and Mar adentro (2004). He received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actor for playing Reinaldo Arenas in Before Night Falls (2000), a criminal with cancer in Biutiful (2010), and Desi Arnaz in Being the Ricardos (2021). His portrayal of assassin Anton Chigurh in the Coen brothers' western film No Country for Old Men (2007) won him the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Bardem has also starred in auteur-driven films such as Woody Allen's romantic drama Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008), Terrence Malick's drama To the Wonder (2013), Darren Aronofsky's horror film mother! (2017), and Asghar Farhadi's mystery drama Everybody Knows (2018). He also acted in blockbuster films such as the James Bond film Skyfall (2012), the swashbuckler film Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales(2017), the science fiction epic films Dune (2021) and Dune: Part Two (2024), and Disney's live-action remake The Little Mermaid (2023). On television, he portrayed José Menendez in the Netflix crime anthology series Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story (2024). Bardem married actress Penélope Cruz in 2010, and they have two children together. In January 2018, Bardem became Greenpeace's ambassador for Antarctica's protection. Description above from the Wikipedia article Javier Bardem, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
A plague of rogue sorcerers erupts across the globe, each claiming to have mastered reality-bending black magic from a singular, malevolent source: the Darkhold. Recognizing that this ancient grimoire poses an existential threat to the mystical fabric of reality, Doctor Strange ventures into the darkest corners of the occult. He recruits a team intimately familiar with the supernatural underbelly: Blade, Elsa Bloodstone, Moon Knight, Ghost Rider, Man-Thing, and Werewolf by Night. Every member bears the scars of the book's corruptive influence, forging a deeply committed alliance of monsters and vigilantes. Their investigation leads their team straight to the source of the rot-Chthon, the ancient Elder God and author of the Darkhold. The deity attempts to tear the mortal plane asunder, igniting a war of hellfire, sorcery, and blood. Forced to adapt on the fly, the team members learn to trust one another, seamlessly blending Blade's swordsmanship, Ghost Rider's roaring hellfire, and Moon Knight's unpredictability to counter Chthon's reality warping. In the climax, the team coordinates a flawless offense. Johnny Blaze unleashes penance fire, dragging Chthon screaming into the deepest pits of Hell and securing a victory for the mortals. With the author defeated, Doctor Strange moves to secure and isolate the Darkhold forever, only to discover the altar is empty. The book is gone. The film cuts to a remote, hidden sanctuary bathed in crimson aura. Wanda Maximoff sits in absolute silence, the pages of the Darkhold floating before her. Having quietly stolen the text, her eyes glow with an unsettling, dark magic as she effotlessly masters its forbidden, reality-shattering incantations. Cut to black.
