{"id":137658,"date":"2019-07-31T10:25:52","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T17:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailyactor.com\/?p=137658"},"modified":"2019-07-31T11:02:18","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T18:02:18","slug":"zachary-levi-shazam-audition-tape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailyactor.com\/actors-on-acting\/zachary-levi-shazam-audition-tape\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Zachary Levi&#8217;s &#8216;Shazam!&#8217; Audition Tape"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Shazam! - Exclusive Clip \u201cCasting Zachary Levi\u201d | SYFY WIRE\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kVBBiAJFjoY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s easy to feel good for <strong>Zachary Levi<\/strong>&#8216;s success. The <em>Chuck<\/em> and <em>Tangled<\/em> star has always seemed like a perfect fit to play a superhero. However, before 2019 the closest he came was playing Thor&#8217;s Warriors Three ally Fandral in <em>Thor: The Dark World<\/em> and <em>Thor: Ragnarok<\/em>. However, in 2019 the DC Comics superhero movie <em>Shazam!<\/em> finally gave Levi the opportunity to play a comedic superhero that he seemed born to portray when he played DC&#8217;s Shazam onscreen with childlike enthusiasm.<\/p>\n<p>And even though Levi has a track record of success, he still needed to audition for the role &#8212; and as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.syfy.com\/syfywire\/shazam-zachary-levi-audition-clip\">SYFY<\/a> has revealed, Levi&#8217;s first audition was on Skype. It demonstrates his unbridled eagerness to portray the character, and despite not being in the room with him, director David F. Sandberg immediately asked, &#8220;Why is this guy not our Shazam?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You can watch the whole video on Levi&#8217;s audition above!<\/p>\n<h4><strong>More: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyactor.com\/film\/zachary-levi-auditioning-for-shazam\/\"><strong>Zachary Levi Originally Passed on Auditioning for \u2018Shazam!\u2019<\/strong> <\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zachary Levi&#8217;s audition tape demonstrates his unbridled eagerness to portray the character, and despite not being in the room with him, director Sandberg asked, &#8220;Why is this guy not our Shazam?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":138596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[11213,3650],"tags":[2946,12105,2193],"class_list":["post-137658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actors-on-acting","category-actors-screen-test","tag-audition-tapes","tag-featured","tag-zachary-levi"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.2 (Yoast SEO v24.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>WATCH: Zachary Levi&#039;s &#039;Shazam!&#039; 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