Written by Chris Snelgrove | issued
first shazam Although the film was a hit, the sequel’s failure was essentially the beginning of the end for star Zachary Levi’s career. He appears to have come out as an anti-vaxxer during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, but one of his co-stars says those beliefs have recently brought him to the absolute lowest level. It is said that it was brought down to . Levi and Laura Benanti both starred in Broadway plays. she loves meAnd she recently accused him of implying that their mutual co-star Gavin Creel’s cancer death was actually caused by vaccination.
Zachary Levi’s co-star goes missing
Creel was diagnosed in July and passed away on September 30, after which Zachary Levi hosted a pro-Trump Instagram Live. In it, he brought up Creel’s death and bizarrely said, “If COVID-19 vaccinations weren’t mandatory for Americans, theaters would be under pressure and underutilized.” , paused for a moment before blaming “people at the top.” Co-star Laura Benanti was furious because it sounded to most people like he was implying that Creel’s cancer was caused by vaccination. [Levi] use [Creel’s] “To use the memory of someone who wasn’t your friend for your own political agenda…I was like, ‘F-you forever,'” she said.
Interestingly, Benanti disagrees with those who think this conservative virtue signaling is “career suicide” simply because “Christian, faith-based TV and movies are huge.” She believes Zachary Levi will “become a huge star in his field” and “make more money than he’s ever made,” and the thought of that possibility makes her “nauseous.” Time will tell how much Levi’s increasingly vociferous politics will benefit his career, but blaming a co-star’s cancer death on the coronavirus vaccine is a no-brainer for the star. It’s a new low and frankly I didn’t think it would go any lower.
The rise and fall of Zachary Levi
This DC star’s breakout role was on the TV show chuckAnd he also voiced Flynn Rider in the hugely successful Disney movie. tangled. All this led to him being cast as the film’s title character. Shazam!and after that movie earned $367.8 million against a budget of $90 million to $100 million, he seemed poised to become a Hollywood megastar. but, shazam 2 ‘ was a huge flop, earning just $134.1 million against a budget of $110 million to $125 million, and the stars’ reactions to the film’s failure otherwise remained hidden may have revealed a sad and downright hopeless side of his personality.
rear shazam 2 Bombshell Zachary Levi posted a series of meltdown videos on Instagram, seemingly fighting back tears, as he slammed Dwayne Johnson for killing off his post-credits cameo in the superhero sequel. black adam. This complaint is particularly strange. Because while Johnson’s selfish decision seems so trivial, there’s no way the addition of a slimy post-credits sequence with relatively unknown characters like Hawkman and Cyclone will change the world. . shazam 2 A monster hit. It was even sadder to see Levi end one of his videos with a plea for fans to consider watching the sequel. john wick 4.
Zachary Levi’s first starring movie shazam 2 It was Harold and the purple crayonand that too bombed, grossing only $32 million against a $40 million budget. This second big-budget failure appeared to have ended the actor’s chances of becoming a big star, with many speculating that the star’s downfall may have begun with his post on X in early 2023. , where he agreed with users that Pfizer, the company that makes the coronavirus vaccine, is “cheating.” “The Real Danger to the World” about 2 months ago shazam 2 premiered. The star proved he has learned nothing from his previous mistakes after his co-star Gavin Creel hinted that he somehow got cancer from the vaccination.
tragically perfect casting
At one time, I would have felt some sympathy for Zachary Levi. After all, who wouldn’t be sad to have their wildest career dreams pulled out from under them? Things changed last year when the star appeared on a TV show. Andrew Irwin Storyteller He admitted on the podcast that he didn’t want his project to be delayed because of the coronavirus because “when the pandemic hit, I had no money, no income,” and had to rely on friends because “money was really tight.” There wasn’t.
Somehow, if I was being paid millions of dollars for a lucrative acting gig or licensing deal, and my income stream was temporarily disrupted by producers trying to save lives, suddenly… I can’t help but wonder if he never went bankrupt. And even if I were broke, I would put everything into the politics of grudges, like politicizing the tragic death of a co-star, to gain support from people who think vaccinations cause cancer. I have no intention of doing so.
But I have to admit that Zachary Levi was perfectly cast as Shazam because of his antics. After all, who else in Hollywood could so perfectly embody what a child’s mind is like inside an adult’s body?
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