Some of the Cardinals getting ready to enter the Sistine Chapel for their gathering to choose a successor for Pope Francis have been depending on inside information from an unlikely source: the 2024 Ralph Fiennes Oscar-winning movie “Conclave.”

“Some have watched it in the cinema,” an unnamed cleric involved in the conclave, where the cardinals will gather for their ritual starting Wednesday, told Politico.

The box office and critical hit features Fiennes as Cardinal Thomas Lawrence, the pope-appointed “camerlengo,” or chamberlain who oversees the conclave.

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