Every superhero has to look like they can kick anyone's butt. I was so grateful to go and work with genuinely good, talented kids who've got good families too. So was Jack (Dylan Grazer, who plays Billy's best friend Freddy). We're just there to provide what our services are at any given point. But that's what you're doing with the director any time, because they're the ones seeing all the pieces. So then you're trusting your director to be the connective tissue, to make sure it's all there. So Ash and I got a couple of days of some meetings, having a meal, getting to know each other, and some rehearsals with David.Īnd then he had to go and was shooting the show and I was making the movie, and then we were never really on set together. It was mostly with David because Asher was still shooting his television show when we were starting production on the movie. How did you work that out with Asher Angel, who plays Billy, and your director David F. And then of course all of the actual superhero stuff, like super strength, super speed, flying and shooting electricity out of my hands! One of the things that's unusual about this film is that there are two actors playing one character. I try to walk as upright as I can in life and try to do as much good in life as I can, and so I love that about him.īut also, that he's 14 and just gets to be kind of silly and young at heart. And I just really love being able to bring those types of characters to life. I think that we need to be inspiring people to be more selfless and thoughtful of their fellow man. Ultimately, the Wizard chooses Billy Batson to be Earth's mightiest mortal Shazam because of the strength, purity and depth of his heart, traits that even Billy doesn't know he has. What are the attributes of Shazam that inspire you? So it worked out perfectly for me, and yeah, it's just been very dreamy. I feel like it was destined to be, because I'm just kind of a big man-child in a lot of ways. Then having got this role and having played this 14-year-old inside? I wouldn't change it for anything.
There were a couple of roles over the years that I wished I auditioned for, or that I came close to and I didn't get.
Maybe I missed my shot." And now getting to do that. It's so incredible to have loved superheroes, comics, video games and all that stuff for so long, always dreaming like, "Oh, you know, maybe I'll get a shot at playing a bona fide superhero one day."Īnd then being 37 and being like, "I don't know.
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