Zachary Levi ate "thousands of calories a day" to physically transform himself for Shazam!

The actor Zachary Levi said to have undergone a physical transformation for Shazam! but not because superhero movie makers asked him.

"I'm really grateful that no one at Warner Bros., DC, New Line said," You have to be in some form to do this ", with regard to physical appearance. that they wanted to make sure that I could physically do everything I could do, they were going to need me, what I was like, "Yeah, yeah, me too" ", said Levi in ​​a statement.

"But beyond that, I also wanted to seek as much as possible my self-confidence and my own kind of journey as a man, and as an actor filling the skin of that character I wanted to go and have a transformation, "he added.
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The actor said that he was "in the gym practically six days a week since certainly the last year".
"Maybe even a little longer, about 14 months, eating thousands and thousands of calories a day.It's actually the hardest part.The gym to which I'm addicted and that I'm not sure about. I love it, and I can not wait to go to the gym every day, I feel that even for mental health, it's so healthy for you, "he added.

Levi says that he is "stronger and healthier" than he has ever been in his life.

"I'm raising more and more people and more and more definitions in my body." Going to the gym literally releases many healthy endorphins and makes the head and heart more enjoyable.

"I'm probably weighing about 220 pounds now, and I was 200 pounds at the beginning, so I took about 20 pounds, somehow deep inside me always believed that I was going to find a job one day and they were going to pay me to have the best shape of my life. "

The superhero movie, firmly anchored in the DC universe with a your distinctly fun and family-centered, is a wish fulfillment story. Former orphan Billy Batson (Asher Angel) is offered the opportunity, by a former wizard, to transform himself into a powerful adult with strength, invincibility, flight, and more. other powers, all while pronouncing the name of the wizard: Shazam.

In the case of Billy Batson, shouting a word "Shazam", the 14-year-old adoptive child of civil society can become the adult superhero Shazam (Levi). The Warner Bros. Pictures project released in India on Friday.

When asked if he could say a magic word in your real life, what did he want it to happen, he said, "If I could say a magic word, whatever that it could happen, I would say a magic word and we would be rightfully at peace as human beings and we would feel love and empathy for one another around the world. "

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