Worst DC Superhero Star Sinks Even Lower, Costar Has Nothing Good to Say

By Chris Snellgrove | Published 14 seconds ago

while the first shazam The film turned out to be a success, the failure of its sequel was effectively the beginning of the end of lead star Zachary Levi’s career. He apparently came out as anti-vaccine at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, and according to one of his co-stars, these beliefs recently caused him to sink to a whole new level. Levi and Laura Benanti starred in the Broadway play. she loves meand recently criticized him for suggesting that their common co-star Gavin Creel’s cancer death was actually caused by his vaccination.

Zachary Levi’s Co-Star Goes Off

Creel was diagnosed in July and died on September 30, and Zachary Levi subsequently hosted a pro-Trump Instagram Live. During this, he brought up Creel’s death, bizarrely saying “if these COVID vaccines weren’t forced on the American public, that movie theaters weren’t being pushed or taken advantage of,” before pausing and then blaming “ the people above.” It seemed to most people that he was implying that Creel’s cancer was caused by the vaccine, which angered his co-star Laura Benanti: “That (Levi) uses (Creel’s) memory, a person he doesn’t know.” He was a friend, to use his memory for his political affairs. agenda… I was like, ‘Fuck you forever,’ he said.

Interestingly, Benanti disagrees with those who think this conservative virtue signaling is “career suicide” simply “because Christian, faith-based television and film are huge.” She believes Zachary Levi “is going to be a big star in that area” and “is going to make more money than he’s ever made,” a prospect that makes her “nauseous.” Only time will tell how much Levi’s increasingly vocal politics will help his career, but blaming a co-star’s cancer death on a COVID vaccine is a new low for a star who, frankly, I didn’t think could go much lower. .

The rise and fall of Zachary Levi

This DC star’s breakout role was in the TV show. Throwand also voiced Flynn Rider in the hit Disney film. Tangled. All this led him to be chosen as the main character in Shazam!and after that film grossed $367.8 million on a budget of between $90 and $100 million, he seemed poised to become a Hollywood megastar. However, shazam 2 was a huge flop, earning only $134.1 million on a budget of $110 to $125 million, and the star’s reaction to the film’s failure revealed a sad and downright desperate aspect of his personality that was otherwise could have remained hidden.

After shazam 2 bombed, Zachary Levi posted a series of meltdown videos on Instagram where he seemingly held back tears and blamed Dwayne Johnson for killing off a post-credits cameo that tied the superhero sequel to black adam. This grievance is particularly strange because, while Johnson’s selfish decision seems very petty, there is no way in the world that the addition of a tepid post-credits sequence featuring relatively nameless characters like Hawkman and Cyclone would have transformed shazam 2 in a monstrous blow. It was even sadder to see Levi end one of his videos asking fans to consider watching his sequel instead. John Wick 4.

Zachary Levi’s first major film after shazam 2 was Harold and the purple crayonand it also flopped, earning only $32 million against a $40 million budget. This second big-budget flop seemingly spelled the end of the actor’s chances of becoming a major movie star, and many have speculated whether the star’s downfall began with his early 2023 release in X, where he agreed to a user in which the manufacturer of the COVID vaccine Pfizer “is a real danger to the world” about two months before shazam 2 released. By implying that her co-star Gavin Creel somehow contracted cancer from being vaccinated, the star shows that she hasn’t learned anything from previous failures.

Tragically perfect casting

I would have once felt a modicum of sympathy for Zachary Levi. After all, who wouldn’t be sad if their most ambitious career dreams were taken away from them? That changed last year when the star appeared on the Storytellers with Andrew Erwin podcast and admitted that she hated when projects were delayed due to COVID because “when the pandemic hit, I had no money or income” and had to rely on friends because money was “really tight.”

Somehow, I can’t help but think that if I had been paid millions of dollars for lucrative acting jobs and licensing deals, I wouldn’t suddenly be broke if my income stream was temporarily delayed due to producers trying to save lives. And even if I were broke, I wouldn’t channel it all into a politics of resentment that would have me politicizing my co-star’s tragic death in an obvious attempt to win over people who think vaccination causes cancer.

However, because of his antics, I have to admit that Zachary Levi was perfectly cast as Shazam. After all, who else in Hollywood could so perfectly embody what it’s like to have the mind of a child in the body of an adult?

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