Zachary Levi: With Shazam!, the actor hoped to realize this dream

Zachary Levi made headlines in late September when he was spotted performing at a Donald Trump rally in Michigan. The Shazam! star has been embroiled in a number of controversies, and according to an insider who knows the 44-year-old actor well, the actor had always had a dream that he unfortunately never got to realize.

Zachary Levi, a rising star with a career that is not taking off

Everyone thought it was only a matter of time for Zachary Levi to become a huge star in Hollywood. The actor is known for his role as Chuck Bartowski in the television series Chuck or for having voiced Flynn Rider in the cartoon Disney, Rapunzel. And that's exactly what happened in 2019 when he was announced to star in the film Shazam!, one of the highest-rated DCEU productions of all time. For his performance as a teenager in the body of a superhero, Zachary Levi received a multitude of positive reviews. And yet, despite this, the actor's film career has not taken off.

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Maybe it's because of the Covid-19 pandemic that came along or maybe part of the public considered that his performance was not as important as it was. Add to that the box office flop of his last film Harold and the Magic Pencil or Shazam! Rage of the Gods which has one of the worst starts of all DC films and Levi's desire to become a huge mainstream movie star has completely disappeared.

It must be said that his positions on social networks, in particular his anti-vaccine opinion and the fact of having followed transphobic X accounts, have not helped matters. Not to mention that his support for Republican candidate Donald Trump risks getting him blacklisted from Hollywood for good. Levi is well aware of this, as he declared on stage at Trump's rally in Michigan that he had committed “professional suicide” by supporting the former US president.

Zachary Levi, bitter, far from Hollywood

Today, it is an insider who knows the actor and who declared to The Hollywood Reporter the dream of Levi that he was never able to realize. When “he was cast as Shazam, it was literally his dream“:

He thinks it was his ticket to becoming The Rock or Chris Evans. But it didn't happen and he's bitter about it.

So much so that Zachary Levi has reportedly left Los Angeles to live on a ranch in Texas. Far from Hollywood and his professional dream, he's devoted himself to producing faith-based projects that seem to appeal to his conservative fan base.