Shazam! star Zachary Levi is in hot water once again, as another controversial quote of his has gone viral. “I personally feel like the amount of content that comes out of Hollywood that is garbage — they don’t care enough to actually make it great for you guys. They don’t,” Levi said during the Chicago Fan Expo this weekend.
He continued, saying, “How many times do you watch a trailer and go, ‘Oh my god, this looks so cool!’ Then you go to the movie and it’s like, ‘This was what I get?’ They know that once you’ve already bought the ticket and you’re in the seat, they’ve got your money. And the only way for us to change any of it is to not go to the garbage. We have to actively not choose the garbage. It’ll help. It’ll help a lot.”
Levi, who is the star of Shazam! and its sequel Shazam! Fury of the Gods, which was considered a box-office bomb despite its star-studded cast, was recently embroiled in a controversy when he said that one of the particular rules of the current SAG-AFTRA strike, actors not talking about their past work, was “so dumb.”
Levi has since apologized and said the comments were taken out of context, saying, “I fully support my union, the WGA, and the strike. I remain an outspoken critic of the exploitative system that us artists are subject to work in since I started my journey in this business 25 years ago. This strike is necessary to protect ourselves, our writers, and all those working in production who make the industry move.”
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