Zachary Levi Talks His Character in Shazam

Zachary Levi Talks His Character in Shazam, growing up, and more of his background!

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[DisneyFan]

Zachary Levi is incredibly underrated so it would be nice to see him get recognition. Loved him in Tangled and Chuck. Also liked that TV movie Remember Sunday.

[rethablair]

I loved this guy as Shazam. The actor and the hero is so underrated 👍🏻👍🏾👍

[Author_Alyssa_Taylor]

Just found Heroes (never seen it before) and am staggered at the latitude this guy has as an actor. Always love seeing someone show they're more than just a jokester!

[mayacskn]

SHAZAM WAS AWESOME ! The most funniest cbm I’ve ever seen !!

[Brandon-vyuw]

Zack was the best fit for this movie. It was so great. Out of the DC films WW and Shazam have so much damn heart to them. Not to mention, it was the funniest comic book movie ever because you never anticipated the comedy. It was always out of left field which was great

[TheRealDustinNunn]

Trivia: Captain Marvel (Billy Batson) was originally created by Bill Parker and C.C. Beck and published by Fawcett Comics as a competitor to DC Comics' Superman. DC did not like the idea of Captain Marvel being a Superman rip-off, so DC sued Parker, Beck and Fawcett in court and legally bought the rights to the Captain Marvel character for themselves. DC trademarked the Captain Marvel character, but they did not trademark the Captain Marvel name. The name "Captain Marvel" ended up being trademarked by Marvel Comics. Marvel used the Captain Marvel name for their characters who took on the name "Captain Marvel". Later, Marvel had a legal battle with another comic book company called M.F. Enterprises. M.F. forgot how copyright worked and created their own version of Captain Marvel, who was an alien robot who had the ability to split himself apart and put himself back together again. After M.F. got sued by Marvel and went out of business because of Marvel, Captain Marvel now had two owners. Marvel owned the Captain Marvel name and DC owned the Captain Marvel character. DC was unaware that Marvel trademarked the Captain Marvel name first before DC could get their hands on the Captain Marvel name, so DC got a cease-and-desist letter from Marvel telling DC that DC could not use the Captain Marvel name, so DC had no choice but to rename Captain Marvel the character from "Captain Marvel" to "Shazam" to avoid conflict with Marvel. DC should have renamed Captain Marvel (Billy Batson) the character's name from "Captain Marvel" to "Captain Marvelous" because back when Billy Batson was with Fawcett, his creators were trying to think of a superhero name for his alter-ego. The original name was going to be "Captain Thunder", but there was already a character named Captain Thunder. So then, Billy Batson's alter-ego was renamed "Captain Marvelous". But here was a problem: the name "Captain Marvelous" could not fit on the covers of the comic books, inside the comic books, word balloons, thought balloons and narrator boxes so the name was shortened to "Captain Marvel". Renaming the character "Shazam" was a stupid idea because there is already a character named Shazam, who was the wizard who passed on his powers to Billy Batson.

[Dabstxblasassassin]

Ryan's point about the power of the wizard changing them is Black Adam, Shazam's arch-rival. A person who ends up becoming corrupted by his God-like power and turns evil.

[CassFan]

1/3 into the video and Zach still ain't here. WTF?

[cristaljd]

Ask him if he ever had a thing with Yvonne lol

[tinamarie]

I wanted to watch the interview until I realized that the blond was a total creeper!😂

[Mxy]

👍🏾 Just mentioning Peter Parker Levi just got himself another tkt bought.