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‘Dark Place’: ‘Shazam’ Star Says He Almost Didn’t Try Out For Role Because He Was Undergoing ‘Life-Saving Therapy’

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Zachary Levi attends the Los Angeles Premiere of Warner Bros.' "Shazam! Fury Of The Gods" at the Regency Village Theatre on March 14, 2023 in Los Angeles, California.
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“Shazam” star Zachary Levi said he almost didn’t try out for a role in the latest superhero film from DC because at the time he was in a “dark place” and undergoing “life-saving therapy.”

During the 42-year-old actor’s recent appearance on “The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon,” Levi said during this “super intensive” therapy he was encouraged by a casting exec to try out.

“I was in kind of a dark place in my life at that point,” the superhero star said. “And then fast-forward about a month and a half later, and I’m in this super intensive, life-saving therapy, and I learned how to love myself, really, for the first time in my life, and I have this whole breakthrough.”

The “Shazam! Fury of the Gods” star then turned to the audience and said “By the way, go love yourself. If you learn nothing else today, go love yourself, go love yourself, go love yourself, okay?”

He explained that even though he told his agents he was going to be “off grid” for a bit to work on himself, two in a half weeks into this therapy they told him about a supporting role in the movie “Shazam.”

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He said he decided to go cause he was feeling “good about himself” after two weeks into the therapy, ended up “doing one take” and sent in the audition tape.

“And in the course of basically one week, I ended up going from auditioning for this whole other role to them saying, ‘Hey, we think you’re our Shazam,'” Levi explained.

“They flew me to Los Angeles,” he added. “I had done all my therapy that I needed to do. I go to L.A. I audition and within one week I was Shazam.”

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“I just think it’s indicative of when we do the real work to heal ourselves, and help other people heal themselves, that’s where all the good stuff comes from,” the actor continued. “That’s where that blessing landed in my life.”

The “Shazam” sequel is the first superhero film to be released under the leadership of James Gunn and Peter Safran who recently took over as heads of DC studios.

Gunn recently hinted at what kind of movies/TV projects he and Safran have planned at the studio, as previously reported.

“One of the things of the DCU is that it’s not just a story of heroes and villains,” Gunn explained. “Not every film and TV show is going to be about good guy versus bad guy, giant things from the sky comes and good guy wins. There are white hats, black hats, and grey hats.”

Related: James Gunn Teases Plans For Upcoming DC Movies/TV Projects

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