Before becoming Chuck on TV or the superhero Shazam! At Cinema, Zechariah Levi He began his acting career in theater, in musical comedies such as Fat OR The Wizard of Oz. That’s why she says she understands that Helen Mirren, at 77, wanted to do many of her scenes without stunt doubles Shazam! The fury of the gods(which opens in Argentina this Thursday 16), including one in which they fight hand to hand.
“She was always very present, with the desire to jump and roll up her sleeves ready for anything. When you start doing theater, you learn it in order for the job to work you have to put your ego aside and put the best of one. And she shares it, of course. Even when I have scenes like our fight where they lift you up with cables and you fall to the ground in a spectacular way.
Zachary Levi himself tries to do his action scenes whenever he’s allowed to.
“Some scenes are dangerous and they’re done by the amazing doubles we have, it makes sense, they don’t want you to get hurt, you have to show up for work the next day,” she said clarion in Los Angeles. The city where Zachary came from Louisiana in the interior of the United States to develop his acting career and which has seen him become a superhero.
A comic that took some time to get to the cinema
The DC comic he was born into!Shazam! is from 1940. But it only arrived in cinemas in 2019, with young actor Asher Angel playing the 14-year-old orphan who becomes a superhero when he says the magic word Shazam! and his alter ego appears, in an adult version, played by Zachary Levi.
In the sequel that opens this week, the young Billy Batson is already 18 years old, the alter egos of his adoptive brothers are learning to manage the super powers he has passed on to them, while his alter ego (in Zachary’s body) painfully tries to flirt with another one of your DC colleagues, Wonder Womanin a cameo played by Gal Gadot.
Like his character, Levi is also a man with a teenage heart, the producers say.
Messi, the other superhero
Zachary passed by Buenos Aires almost by accident, when a cruise ship that was taking him closer to Antarctica broke up. He liked what little he saw, he hopes to return as a tourist at another time, and more than anything surprises by applauding the Argentines for the World Cup.
“Congratulations! I’m sure many people around the world wanted you to win. E all for mess. He’s such a nice guy, so humble, maybe the best of all time. With all the things he has won, he failed to win that world title to write history. It was worth watching.”
Levi says another thing that was worth it was agreeing to shoot the sequel right away when he was directing the first one Shazam! She told him that she wanted to continue the story by having him fight this time with the evil daughters of a Greek god and some mythological creatures, including a dragon.
It is for director David F Sandberg the gods and monsters of greek mythology are the first superheroes and villains of history. Zachary Levi feels the same way. “Since I was a child I grew up between comics and video games. It was a dream to be able to play a superhero as an actor, above all Cold What have I done in my life.”
The production has tried to differentiate the dragon from Shazam! The fury of the gods Of the game of Thrones you hate the dragon housealso owned by Warner.
In Greek mythology, Ladon has over 100 heads, but they ended up making him more conventional but no less menacing, as his power is to project terror by freezing his enemies. He is distinguished by his four legs and by the villain who rides him, one of the daughters of Atlas, Kalypso, played by Lucy Liu.
His sisters Hespera (Elena Mirren) and Athena (Rachel Zegler) will try to moderate their thirst for revenge with more or less success.
Helen Mirren, super goddess
The British actress ended up admitting that she injured her finger in a battle scene, but didn’t want to say anything because she saw that the stuntmen are very brave and want to be taken seriously.
Mirren (what He knew how to interpret Queen Elizabeth II and now focuses on Golda Meir) says that what convinced her to accept this demanding role, in which she recognizes herself as unsportsmanlike, “just a little yoga in the morning”, was having seen the first Shazam!
He found the film sweet, funny and liked that the superheroes ended up being the kids who were bullied in school. This quickly made her jump on the bandwagon, turning into an action movie villain, something else to add to his extensive resume.
The fight between them takes the best part in the sequel, the survival of humanity depends on who wins the final battle. As happened with Messi, spectators bet on the hero. And the greatest strength that this superhero has, says the actor who brings him to life, is his heart. “Shazam! He has a good heart and that’s why he always ends up making the right decisions.”
An orphan with magical powers
Angel Asher He is a musician as well as an actor. Although one of his songs with Wiz Khalifa made him very popular on YouTube, he assures that it was his work Shazam!in 2019, the one that changed his life.
Although his character, Billy Batson, has a wizard to give him super powers, it’s not him wearing the superhero suit, but his adult alter ego played by actor Zachary Levi.
However, he says that being able to participate in this saga is a dream come true: “It’s great to do something that people can connect with.” Be thankful that in the sequel, Shazam! The fury of the godscharacters have been added such as the villains of the story, the three daughters of Atlas, angry with the wizard who took away their father’s powers to pass them on to Shazam!
A blockbuster with talented actresses, mythical monsters and lots of special effects. “More heart, more family, more action”. The child’s dream, she admits.
The heart, which attracted Levi and Mirren to the story, puts it from the very beginning that orphan who has passed through several families and that he is finally accepted by the Vasquezes, a couple with many adopted children, with whom Billy ends up sharing some of his magical power.
The Shazam family of Vasquez family alter egos adds a tender moment to the story. His friend Freddy, played by Jack Dylan Grazer, even has a semi-romantic encounter with the youngest of Atlas’ daughters in the sequel.
In the first film the boys were awkwardly trying what to do with magical powers. They did so badly that they were nicknamed: “the Philadelphia fiasco”.
Billy now feels he has to lead them, but isn’t sure he can until the bad guys show up and it all makes sense. “This second part of the saga allowed us to get back on set and reconnect with each other. It will be possible to see that there is a special chemistry in the group,” Angel teases.
Source: Clarin
