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Zachary Levi Unfiltered: Mental Health, Faith, Chuck Movie Hopes & Shazam’s Future | Fan Expo Dallas
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Jun 19, 2025
Zachary Levi delivers an unforgettable Q&A at Fan Expo Dallas 2025, opening up about mental health, faith, fatherhood, and the entertainment industry’s future. From heartfelt insights on self-love and anxiety to hilarious tangents about Mario Kart, Chuck, Shazam, and Tangled, Levi brings sincerity, wit, and raw honesty to the stage. He talks about the potential for a Chuck movie, shares thoughts on AI’s impact on Hollywood, reflects on his journey through depression, and reveals his dream Marvel and DC roles. Whether you’re a fan of Flynn Rider, Shazam, or just Levi’s realness—this panel is a must-watch. 💬 Let us know your favorite Zachary Levi role in the comments! 📍 Filmed live at Fan Expo Dallas 2025 📸 Follow for more celebrity Q&As and convention exclusives!
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zachary Levi
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what's going on Dallas so many beautiful people in the audience
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thank you so much for coming out to my panel i know thank you thank you for being here thank you for being here you
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guys enjoying your uh your uh fan expo here in Dallas this weekend yes you should be so many of us came out
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because we love you we appreciate you um by the way on that note take a moment
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right now this is kind of the thing I like to do i want you to turn to the person sitting next to you i want you to say "I'm grateful that you're alive and
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I'm grateful that you're here right now." Do that right now
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little It's a little church on Saturday guys that's what we're doing that's right that's right
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it's the most important thing we have to recognize that the people that are around us whether they agree with us or
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not are children of God these are people that are here because
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we are so grateful that we exist that we should now are you loving yourselves are you loving yourselves i want to show a
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hands of people that are actually actively choosing to love themselves
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okay now put your hands down that's another fun little exercise
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and and take a moment to look around the room when we do this raise your hand if you deal with stress in your life
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should be basically every hand in the room hands down raise your hand if you deal with anxiety in your life
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hands down raise your hand if you deal with depression in your life it's real guys we're all struggling
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right we're all dealing with this stuff mental health is like dental health if you don't actively brush and floss your
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brains and your heart on a daily basis if you're not working at that if you're not investing in yourself and you are so
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worthy of investing in yourself then those little little mental colds those
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little emotional colds those start like getting worse and worse those little cavities and they eventually you need a
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full-blown root canal and some of you guys know this some of you don't but eight years ago when I moved to the great state of Texas by the way eight
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years ago hey man happy to be here i love
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California but it's broke um and uh but when I moved out to Texas I
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didn't realize I was dealing with so much unhealed trauma that I was running from so many things that had happened in
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my life i had a complete mental breakdown and thank God I had the family and friends around me to support me and
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hold me up just long enough so I could get to life-saving therapy that s literally saved my life changed my life
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one of the biggest things I learned in that time was that I never loved myself i had never learned what that even meant
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and a lot of people talked about it and I always assumed well I'm not like you know I'm not cutting myself i'm not I'm not hitting myself i'm not I don't think
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that I'm not loving myself but I wasn't loving myself so I highly encourage any and all of you if you haven't really
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looked into what that means do it because you are worthy of that love god loves you and you are worthy of God's
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love and you are worthy of the love that in this crowd so give yourselves a round of applause because you are worthy of that love and
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I love you and I mean that i know I don't know a lot of you but I don't think we have to know everybody in order
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to love them honestly one of my I think the best definition of love that I've ever heard in my life to love is to will
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the good of the other and that's something we don't do enough of we think I don't like this person guess what you
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don't have to like somebody to love them you don't have to like somebody to want the best for them in their life to want
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them to wake up to that there's better for them in their life in fact sometimes most often it's the people that we don't
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like the most that we need to love the deepest and some of you out there are believers some of you out there are are
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Christians or believers in in in Jesus and and things like that right well what does it say in scripture it says to love
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those who love you that's easy love your enemy and pray for your persecutor so in
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a time specifically right now we are so polarized right the world is so polarized left and right and red and
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blue and all that nonsense everyone's being told "You've got these evil people over here on whatever side it is you got
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to hate those people do not listen to those lies we have to love the people across the aisle we have to love the
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people that we disagree with it doesn't mean you have to agree with them it doesn't mean you have to like them you can vehemently be against a lot of the
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lies that are being spewed out of their mouths but for God's sake for your sake and for their sake will their good want
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the best for their lives okay amen we good with that okay great
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i'll stop preaching well at least I'll stop preaching about that there'll be some other stuff I'm going to go on tangents about i'm a guy come on now i
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need like one of those cloths so I can keep like you know that muscle up uh listen so uh who's been to a Zachary
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Levi panel in the past before oh okay so show of hands who's not been
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to a Zachary Levi panel in the past oh well you're in for a treat i mean you
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already got treated to some servant but now you're going to So listen i Because a lot of you guys if you're here
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actually here's another fun little thing so I kind of heard in the back but through uh applause or yes or whatever
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you want to do so who's here because you're a Chuck fan
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oh yeah well I can tell boom you're welcome for the easiest cosplay ever created that Chuck is the easiest um
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great wait over here fantastic uh yep and applause if you are here because
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you're a Shazam fan thank you thank you thank you yes sir
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yes sir yes sir uh round of applause if you're here because you're a Tangled fan
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the pitch always goes a little higher it's all those girls
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the Splender did Did they get my nose right i don't
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know you tell me nope how's that is that better yes uh Eugene Fitz Herbert for
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the uninitiated or the initiated um well listen regardless of what brought you here even if you haven't been a fan of
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any of those things if it's something other random the the Allen and the Chipmunks the Squeak anybody yeah
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pew all day long for Kurt Warner American Listen whatever brought you here I'm grateful that
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you're here because by the way I know there are so many wonderful talented human beings that are out there signing
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for you here for you so thank you for taking a little bit of your weekend to spend with me right now how much time do
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we have by the way about 40ish minutes i don't know i for forever i get to stand
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here forever great you got some extra waters and beers because we're going to be here all right so what I like to do I
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don't really like to do moderated stuff but I don't clearly like to sit very much cuz I got a lot of energy and uh
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what I like to do is I like to do fan Q&A because you guys all spent your time and your money to be here so we got a
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microphone right here anybody that has any questions and anything at all literally anything i mean you know
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trying to keep it respectful but if you have any questions I want you to ask the questions and we're going to start right
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here with this gentleman wearing this wonderful uh Superman shirt by the way who's excited for the new Superman
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come on yes sir can you have you talked to James Gunn about joining possibly have I
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talked to James Gunn about joining about possibly going over doing something in the new DC universe i I have not no he's
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been very busy making Superman and and running DC and I've been very blessed that I've continued to be able to have
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more jobs and so no I I I don't know what the new plans for the DC universe are if they see fit to have more Shazam
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and I get to keep playing that role I would love to i love playing that role when I was a kid I was a big fan of
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Christopher Reeves in Superman and I was a big fan of Tom Hanks in Big and I got to be the superhero that was both so it
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was awesome and if I get to keep playing that then awesome and by the way listen I mean Jason Mamoa is now Lobo
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apparently so I guess you can be multiple people in that universe and if I there was another character I got to
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play or whatever I'd gladly do that too you could always just go to another universe in that the cave that you have
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in a cave that I have the uh Oh you mean go to another like a parallel universe with from that from the lair yeah the
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from the lar and the multiple doors yeah possibly sure thank you sir appreciate your Okay yes and who is next
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careful it does the microphone will jump out and bite you if you're not careful hello hello oh nice micing voice yeah
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thank you my question is about Chuck yes sir i know I've asked you actually but about Chuck the movie yes sir i need to
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know is there a plot somewhere that is in your head or some writer has this and
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what does Sarah remember hard-hitting questions um well who wants
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a truck movie [Music] that's the appropriate answer uh listen
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man I've said it even before we stopped making the series uh I I would love to make a Chuck movie and I think
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particularly because of the ending of the series which I won't spoil for anybody who hasn't watched it
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but if you haven't watched it you should watch it uh I think that the audience
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deserves at least one movie to wrap that up to to to answer some of those things
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and does Sarah remember she better if she doesn't I'll burn the world down i mean
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that's you know pretty much how I feel about that but that's I would answer that question in the movie for sure so does somebody have a script somewhere
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there is no script but I do have an idea that I've been churning on for a while that I think would be a lot of fun i'm
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not gonna tell you what it is okay nice try though yeah yes sir
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hi Zach big fan thank you um being a wrestling fan I know that you saw Black
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Adam of course okay what is the diff what would you like i would like to see you in uh your character versus Black
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Adam what do you think who's better you or Black Adam well me obviously what are
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you crazy did you think I would ever answer that differently the rock is twice your size
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i mean bro it's magic hang on black hey hang on a second hang
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on a second hang on a second hang on this is one of the things that I've never understood this by the way not
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that I'm trying to attack you i want to hear you but let me ask you let me ask you a question
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when you read and I I I was a big I I read a lot of Marvel comics i was more of a Marvel kid than I was a DC kid but
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I was I was sure yes by the way they're all great that that we don't have to hate each other we can all love Marvel
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and we can all love DC right we can all do all those things and even within DC we can love the Syd movies and we can
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love the other movies we don't have to be divided in all of this stuff we can we can get Can't we all just get along
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um but but hear me out really quick when you're watching a Spider-Man movie
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Spider-Man is a teenage kid who's not that big but you never question whether
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or not he has the strength to take on even the Hulk or somebody else that he would go fight in his comic books so why
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are we so hung up that Shazam maybe played by Shazam might be not as large
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as The Rock played by or The Rock playing Black Adam the size doesn't matter when it comes to all of those
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superpowers it doesn't that doesn't matter right that's true okay so there you go so she's so she won't win okay
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great thank you great i'm glad we got to the bottom of that yes hello hello
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it's all right when you play Mario Kart who do you play as and what is your favorite track finally somebody's
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getting to the meat of it um so so here's the thing
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i I don't I I'm still not convinced and some people are very very convinced and I think depending on the iteration of
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Mario Kart depending on the iteration um there may have been some advantages to being different characters and I the
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truth is like I haven't really dug deep enough into it to know if they've actually done that i try to do different like character and card situations and I
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never really find there to be that much of a difference but I'm a Mario guy i've always been a Mario guy i go like I'm
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like a straight down the middle like I liked I liked his kind of I liked his stats that he was kind of like in the
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middle a little bit like he you know I don't know not average but like he kind of had a little bit of everything but he wasn't like he didn't have the fastest
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acceleration or the most weight or whatever it was so I'm Mario that's who I am yeah i mean the name's in the title
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of the game so I figure I got to go with the star yeah and then what's your favorite track oh
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favorite track i mean Rainbow Road yeah it's kind of a
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banger yeah it's kind of a banger i mean it's a rainbow why wouldn't you want to drive on it also it's so hard like I
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remember that first Rainbow Road was so infuriating and you're particularly when you're playing against your friends and
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you're like crushing it and then you just get blue shelled off into infinity and you're like
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so yeah Rabbi Rainbow Road i'll go with that thank you thank you okay so um Yes
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by the way can we give a round of applause for ESL i know ASL
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ASL ASL okay um real quick just out of curiosity
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what would you say was your favorite aspect of playing Shazam his heart i mean honestly I I think
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that's probably the favorite aspect of most of the roles that I've gotten to play and I I can only explain it in that
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like you know sometimes I find roles but sometimes roles find me and often times
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they do and I think that it's like we all have a certain energy that we that
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God gives us uh uh you know our spirit our soul our energy that we bring into this world and ever since I was a little
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kid man I've just always led with my heart i love people i care about people i care about the world i care about fighting for the world i care about
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fighting for what's true what's right and sometimes that gets me into hot water you know even recently with c some
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stances that I've taken in this world I try to always speak what I believe to be true and I try to do it in love always
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and Shazam Billy Batson is another example of that he's this kid who you
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know bounced around with the foster system and and didn't feel that love from his parents but he always held on
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to it inside which is why the wizard saw that he was the champion it wasn't because he was the biggest and the strongest or anything else it's cuz he
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had integrity deep down in him he always was going to do what was right and he was going to fight for that and sacrifice himself if it meant it and so
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that's the biggest thing I loved and then also I mean it's just fun i mean like as an adult I get to be a kid again
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you know like that was so fun so those are aspects one more question if that's all right okay what would you say is
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your favorite role you've ever played me
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too to be honest I've just recently had a child i have a father now thank you
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thank you he's he's eight he's 8 weeks old and anybody who has kids so we're in that you know no sleep newborn phase
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which is an incredible juggling act of challenge and elation but that's the greatest role
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I've ever played man i am so stoked to be a dad i wanted to be a dad my whole life so yeah that's the best role I've
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ever played for sure god bless you god bless you too thanks man hello hi i'm Nice to meet you nice to
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meet you my sister Mary Rusty Robinson Landon okay guess we're family we're
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family hi i was wondering if I could give you a hug i I do hand I do hand
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hugs come here hand hug come here come here come here come here give me that hand hug come here there you go hi fam
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wait i'm sorry what was your sister's name siw sienna Robinson sienna yes sienna
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okay cool all right and then I was wondering if you could give us a smolder
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thank you very much what time was this moment that's awesome hey
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okay hi i'm going to film this sorry um so I've never seen Chuck i guess I need to watch it because everyone who's
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talking about it i know you from Chazam it's a banger okay i know you from Shazam but I'm here to talk about
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Tangled okay i love Flynn as usual is there going to be a part two or would
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you one would you Is there going to be a part two or would you ever do it on Broadway if there was a second part well
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I don't know about a part two um we did a Tangled series if you've not watched a Tangled series highly recommend it
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anybody watch a Tangled series here yes few people so we had a Tangled series it was on Disney it's not a kids cartoon i
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mean obviously it's fit for kids to watch it's a wonderful show for kids as
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well but it's it's really intelligent it's really wellm made chris Sonnenberg our showrunner still a really dear
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friend of mine both Mandy and I and a lot of the original cast came back to do that it's a different animation style
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it's actually really cool it's like almost as if Rapunzel was animating it it's like her artwork that is the type
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of art for the show so if you want more Tangled definitely go watch that that's
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it's really really good um I know that they were very actively uh talking about
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making a liveaction uh Tangled which unfortunately I am just
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too old to play i know i know stop it no stop no stop it
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stop um listen here's here's the thing here's the thing here's the thing uh the
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story you know you guys know this uh Rapunzel's 17 turning 18 and once she
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turns 18 she has her first kiss with Flynn i am far too old to be playing a man who
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is kissing an 18-year-old girl that is just not Well that's not okay well the part two could be like years later you
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know they had their own kids well Right but I mean the Disney live action remakes are typically remakes of the
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story that was the animated version so they were actively casting it out and looking for people i don't know that
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they're making it anymore i the I I don't know what's going on with all of that i was going to be happy if like
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Manny and I could be cast as the king and queen Rapunzel's parents i thought that would be a fun little you know video but I have no idea what's going on
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with that um and I don't know if they'll make a a a Tangled 2 movie although I'd
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love it if they did i think that'd be a lot of fun yeah and if they ever did it on Broadway I mean I I depending on how
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they cast that i mean I guess I don't know on from a stage I could look young enough people are part of it put some
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heavy makeup on me dye the gray um but uh yeah I don't know that's all I have
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to say about that I guess yeah thank you yeah for sure yes sir all right great segue given the
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age discussion so you were born September 1980 which makes you one of the youngest Gen Xers yeah that being
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the case what do you think was the coolest thing about growing up as a kid in the 80s bro where do I begin um well first first
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of all yeah I guess I'm Gen X well actually no recently I found out and for
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any of you who I think are born I think it's like between 1978 and 1985 we're the Goonies generation
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absolutely uh there should have been a lot more applause um uh so so yeah so I'm in I'm in that you
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know and we're that weird generation that kind of like bridges the gap from analog to digital some people call you
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guys zenial zenials sure I'll take that why not um but growing up in the '8s I
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mean listen we we I think the '7s and ' 80s and even a little bit in the '90s
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that was kind of the heyday of of I mean not to say that there's not cool stuff going on right now but listen man the
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internet social media these are like really double-edged swords and we're seeing the the really toxic effects of
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how that's all playing out particularly in our children right now even in us in in us adults i mean social media is is
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such a tr Well smartphones in general right smartphones are both like the greatest Swiss Army knife that was ever
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created you can do so many things with one tool and it's also the deepest narcissist pool we've ever stared into
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it's so sad social media is the like greatest source of mental illness and
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also the greatest resource of mental health resources right so it's it's a
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weird balance and I try to use it for that purpose it's like I can't just you know for my work and for everything else
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like I got to utilize it but I try to utilize it for as much good as I can utilize it for but in the 80s before we
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had all that [ __ ] sorry some by the way sometimes I do drop some language i apologize uh but before we all that
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stuff took over and before helicopter parenting I mean bro my parents had no idea where I was they didn't know and
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and we survived and we did okay i didn't wear a helmet when I rode a bike we were building ramps out of nothing and
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jumping it over each other and you know like like that that's the world that we
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grow up in and to be honest like with my son that is now fresh into the world I'm going to do everything I can to try and
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give him that kind of life i don't think any child before 16 should have a cell phone in their hands i just don't i
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think that particularly with smartphones because once any one kid has one even if you are really good about not giving
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your kid a smartphone everybody knows the kid that's got a smartphone and by the way not I'm going to get heavy in a
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few moments here but just so you guys know like online pornography has gone rampant right it is it it is bad it is
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bad bad the average age of children young boys watching pornography is 8
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years old 8 years old let that sink in for a second that is so sinister that is
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so nefarious and it's because all of these things these ubiquitous little machines are in everybody's pocket so we
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have to be more intentional about what we're doing what we're giving our children we have to be so I'm really grateful that I grew up in a world that
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didn't have any of that i got bullied plenty but I got bullied in real life and that was hard but at least I wasn't
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getting cyberbullied by people that are hiding be I mean now I get cyberbullied but I'm an adult and I can handle that
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stuff but so you know growing up in the 80s man and also I loved all the neon and I loved all the music so you know
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all that stuff god bless god bless you thank you well um thanks for being so open about your mental health struggles
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and all that you dealt with now that you've had such a great level of success and continue to do you still deal with
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imposter syndrome oh certainly yeah i think that imposter syndrome is something that everybody deals with on
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some level you know and I think that that is rooted ultimately in
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how much are you actually loving yourself how much are you having grace and patience and empathy with yourself
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and forgiving yourself a lot of us don't learn to forgive ourselves because our parents doing the best that they could
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by the way that's one of the things that we must recognize everybody is actually doing the best they can that's a really
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hard pill to swallow because a lot of people are jerks and they don't seem it's like why do you think that's your
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best by being a jerk and doing this and doing that but that's what they learned that's what they learned i mean
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literally people that go and strap bomb strap bombs to their bodies and they go into markets and they kill innocent
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people it's so easy obviously for us to say that is evil that is pure evil that act absolutely is evil that person who
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did it thought that they were doing the holiest thing that they could possibly do now it doesn't excuse any of it it
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doesn't excuse people going and doing horrible things evil things jerk things in the world don't ever confuse that
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we're not excusing it but it does allow us to have an empathy for the person right and so I think that the more we
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can apply that to ourselves a lot of our parents they parent us this in a way cuz they didn't want us to do stupid [ __ ]
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and so they would come down on us and they would go "You stupid jerk why are you doing that?" Right well what that does is it our inner voices more often
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than not are echoing our parents' voices and how they parented us that's what's going on and so you have to be able to
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break that cycle you have to be able to say "No no no no no that's not God's voice certainly not God's voice and
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that's not my voice that's that's a lie that's that's the condemnation that's the shame that is not from God that is
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not love." And we have to break those circuits we have to say "No I know that even though I failed even though I
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screwed up even though I've hurt people in my life I was doing the best that I could at the time." And then you recognize that and then you do better
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and then you try not to do that anymore thank you so much absolutely for sure
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hey Zach how are you i'm well thank you uh first of all I just want to say thank you for your talent and thank you for
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just all the great characters you've brought especially Shazam suzanne's always been important to me because he
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represents what you can be really bad sense bad situation but then he becomes
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you know the best version of himself and I think you were the perfect person to play that character thank you you're my
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favorite Shazam you'll always be my favorite thank you thank you for being Thank you thank you i appreciate that
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thank you oh love not even a question just love thank you bro you waited a long time to just give me a lot of
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compliments that's those guys yes um if you could pick anyone to be Flynn
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Ryder entangled besides yourself who would it be
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brad Pitt no um uh no well listen I mean people would
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ask that as that online and I and when they were doing the live action casting and I I was like I don't know i you know
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I know he he's gets all the roles for everything but I think Timothy Shalamay would be an interesting choice for that
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um some people are like not I don't know the the truth is there are
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so many talented actors i don't know all of them they're they're they're working in all these different movies and TV
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shows and stuff so there could be somebody that I'm just totally unaware of that would just knock it out of the park and I want them to i I I don't I
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don't hold on to it so tight that it's like no that's mine now i can't you I was like I just want whoever it is I
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want them to embody that character the way that our wonderful writers wrote it
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uh that our directors directed it that I tried to do my best to bring it to life i think Flynn Ryder is I know I'm biased
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but like the best Disney prince that ever was outside of Aladdin aladdin to me was OG and he had his own movie i
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mean he was like kind of you know one of the only ones that had his own men princes that had their own movie but of
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within the movies where it was about the princess and he then being the prince Flynn's the best he's like the Han Solo
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of Disney princess you know what I mean like how you can't beat that so I just want somebody to embody that and and
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understand that transformation that he goes through it's like one of the best character arcs he goes from being this
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selfish self-centered you know ego-driven kind of dude and he learns so much from Rapunzel because she's so pure
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and wonderful and loving and it just it changes him that love changes him so
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whoever it is I want them to do that thank you yeah thank you hello young
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Ghostbuster hi um what was your favorite role to play
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all of them uh Shazam was a lot of fun to be honest because it was a dream come
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true in so many ways like I said watching Superman and Big and all those stuff growing up and I got to play that
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also like be being able to be in the Marvel universe was amazing and even
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though I wasn't like I was supposed to be in the first Thor but Chuck the schedule conflicted and I couldn't do
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that but then I got to be in the well I got to be in the second one i was in the third one but for a moment before Hela
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just very unceremoniously murdered me um but that was cool but I got to be my own
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superhero i got to put on this bandex and lead that charge and play such a fun character so that was an amazing role to
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play but but Chuck Chuck I mean well it's hard to say Chuck because I was barely acting in Chuck i I am Chuck um
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playing video games and reading comic books i mean no joke I was reading every Anybody read Why the Last Man the
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graphic novel Why the Last Man i was reading Why the Last Man actively and I came back to work that season and in
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Chuck's bedroom they had put Why the Last Man graphic novels in his bookshelf
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and I was like "What is this this is all right art imitating life imitating art
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so that was a wonderful role to play but also Flynn Ryder and also like all the other wonderful roles I've gotten to
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play so I don't know that's a very tough question thank you thank you so much
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so I'm a huge fan of She Loves Me and uh First Date and I'm so thankful I got to
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see She Loved Me at least online um what was your favorite thing about stage
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acting versus in movies or TV shows and would you ever consider doing it for
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another role on Broadway absolutely i would love to go back and do more stage work um I mean I that's where I started
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i by the way anybody out there who wants to be an actor is thinking about like oh I'd like to do film and television and
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stuff like that well actually hold on i'm going to well
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I'll say I'll I'll go with what I was saying which is if you want to be an actor theater don't think I'm just going
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to go jump and do film and television start in theater you learn so much you learn everything it's the it's the fundamentals of what it means to be an
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actor what it means to build a character and have a scene partner and work with them and take direction and amplify the
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words that you've been given and all that i love stage um and the thing I love the most about it is this it's
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quite literally this you know I tell people a lot when they come to my table what I love about conventions so much is
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first of all I love people and I'm also an extrovert so like my introvert friends that do conventions they get
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drained real quick cuz it's a it's an energy thing right energy transfer i'm a hardcore extrovert so I meet people all
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day long and it just fills me up particularly because you guys you know I I tell people it's like this is the
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wackiest job i mean it's the coolest job but we basically I stand there I bring my little boom box by the way if you
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ever come by my table I got some nice tunes playing for everybody uh but I play my music and wonderful people like
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you wait very patiently to pay me very good money to scribble on pictures of my own face like it's very strange but
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philosophically I really believe that I'm being paid to love on people i love that i love it but what it also does is
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it gives all of us the opportunity to close the loop of love and appreciation because when I do theater I get that in
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the moment right if I tell a joke and people laugh or I finish a number and
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people are clapping or at the end of the show whatever we've all gotten to experience together i know how people felt about what it was when you make
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film and television you make it in a vacuum you have no idea what people think about it you have no idea if it resonates with people or not unless you
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meet those people and the coolest best place to meet the most amount of people that actually watch your film and television is coming to conventions just
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like this so with theater yes absolutely give yourself a round of applause you
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guys are the ones who even make this happen never forget never forget we
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don't have jobs unless you guys support our jobs don't let anybody tell you differently thank you from the bottom of
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my heart that you guys support me and continue to support me in the things that I do i would not be able to keep doing it unless you did that so thank
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you but with theater you get this really wonderful live like it's it's a live
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wire it's incredible and it it and it and it fills you with so much dopamine and so that's the thing I love the most
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about theater yeah absolutely hello hello
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uh first um I loved your performance in American Underdog thank you and my
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question is like um is there a chance um that you can come back as a Shazam in a new DCU or is that version like just
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done uh I I answered that earlier but I don't know i really have no idea that's all way above my pay grade okay thank
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you absolutely i thought you were going to ask if I was going to come back in American Underdog 2
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uh oh gosh um so my question I I think it's a little obvious but who would win
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between Shazam and Flynn Ryder and could Flynn maybe outsmart Shazam
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that's a tubby um well Shazam
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I think you you started this this is an obvious question um yeah Shazam will win but also
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Flynn has a cartoon that's true that's very true and so if we learn nothing
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else from Who Framed Roger Rabbit which is a banger
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you should by the way go back and watch that movie it's so good it still holds up to this day um what was the what was
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the Somebody help me with this what was this by the way and also Christopher Lloyd is here who was so good as the villain in uh whoever driving it but
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remember there was like the who was the dip the dip there's only one way to
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kill a two and it's the dip and unless Shazam has the dip then I don't know if Shazam can be right i mean he can like
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hold him down indefinitely yeah or like use some magic to do whatever but I don't know that he can kill him so I
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don't know that's That's You should ask Rea cuz I think you might probably answer there okay yeah all right thanks
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thank you hello great cosplay thank you you're
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welcome yeah um I was wondering um if you were ever
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offered a role for either Marvel DC not Shazam yes what would you like to play
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oh what uh
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I don't know um I think I've been playing like like I really loved um
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Spiderverse because I loved seeing like the older kind of like schlubby version of Spiderman it was like eating too much
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pizza and kind of like down on his luck i think that would be a really fun Spider-Man to I mean I don't necessarily need to be the schluffy version but like
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the older version of Peter Parker like I think that would be fun i just love Spider-Man i think he's you know to me
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Billy Batson and Peter Parker are actually quite similar like they just have that childlike exuberance and and
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care and they want to do what's right in the world and so I think that would be fun i always before Ryan Reynolds played Deadpool I wanted to play Deadpool so
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bad bro i loved that character but Ryan did a great job doing that um I'm trying
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to think of what else i don't know i really have no idea i haven't spent a lot of time thinking about that uh cuz
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I've been doing all the other things i don't What role would you want to see me be if I was playing a Marvel character
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for season 3 cuz you did say like a older Peter Parker that would be really
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cool but then I heard somebody in the back say a Reed Richards but that would be Oh I listen it's mainly the hair
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you got the re in this uh yeah in the long arms yeah exactly
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that would be fun i listen man that would be an amazing role but I'm I'm looking forward to seeing that as well i think that that you know I'd like to I I
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I I want all of these movies to work i mean our industry actually this is a good time to tangent into this uh when
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the person asked me about um theater acting and I was giving advice on being an actor
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y'all I cannot stress this enough i cannot stress this enough
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ai AI is very re very very very very very
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real it's very real and it is and and and and and can be and will be used in
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very evil ways it will be AI is coming for Hollywood first we are the canary in
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the coal mine you are going to start seeing have you has it have you guys seen the new Google uh videos AI videos
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with audio and all that stuff we are like you know people were saying "Ah we're never going to get there it's
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people are going to have six fingers." And it's like "No no no no no we are the uncanny valley is almost we're almost
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across it." And so I cannot appeal to you enough that if you want to have
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actors and and people that make movies movies that you love to still be able to make those movies and TV shows you have
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to support them you you have got to do something to say "Hey we want this." Because if you don't and a lot of movies
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are not doing well the studios are all going to basically just start making AI and more than that they're going to
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start giving you all the opportunity to make whatever you want and it's going to be very tempting and I won't blame you
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it's going to be by the way it'll be the price point will be pennies on the dollar but eventually it's going to become very ubiquitous it'll be like
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you'll be able to go to using an example I don't know if this is going to happen or not i don't have like insider Disney info or whatever but imagine if all the
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studios and all of their big libraries of IP they give you access to that and
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so you can go to let's say Disney Plus and you can go and they have like an AI creators corner and you have access to
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everything in their catalog which means you can go and say "Uh okay well I want
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a action adventure treasure hunt on Mars with Luke Skywalker and Indiana Jones
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and the Avengers and Flynn Ryder cuz why not and they're fighting killer clowns from outer space and uh it feels like it
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was directed by Steven Spielberg and scored by Han Zimmer enter and you will have a one-on-one instantaneously right
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in front of you a movie that you will feel like oh I I made this i'm the filmmaker look at this thing i just made
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this remote with my own creativity and a few keystrokes and you just got access to that how many Star Wars fans are in
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the audience right now show hands i would imagine it' be everybody but okay i see I see your lightsabers thank you
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yes how many Star Wars fans in the world when given the opportunity to make
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whatever Star Wars movie they want whatever Star Wars series they want whatever Star Wars video game they want
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and for pennies on the dollar aren't going to go and do that you will i I imagine you probably will just know that
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when you do if you do that that's 400 people that just lost their job and
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that's just my industry we as human beings have got to hold some kind of mind because AI is coming for every
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single one of our industries in just a couple of years the people that are at like the top level of all these AI
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companies the former Google CEO he says in like one to two years white collar
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jobs are gone all of them are gone ai will replace all those jobs that's millions and millions and millions of
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people that are going to be unemployed i mean I don't want to sound like a doomer and a gloomer i don't want to sound like
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you know the sky is falling but guys the sky is falling it really is coming so I
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don't know what else to say about that other than we have to keep our eyes open and we have to be able to see each other and support each other as much as you
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can when you see people in in human industries which basically all industries are right now and you have
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five minutes that's we got a few people left but we're just try to support human as much as you can
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human art human entertainment human food service human drivers human whatever you can got it yes good please yes all right
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thank you sir thank you speed round we're going to get as many of these as we don't like that so I really respect
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you as an actor i really respect you as a character respect your faith everything thank you someone already
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asked my question can I challenge you to an arm wrestle really quick really quick
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arm wrestle no okay fine different question 100 Flynn Riders versus one
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gorilla who wins 100 filers why because they're cartoons you're right we've been
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over this hi hi my name's Izzy izzy my question is
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if you could play any book comic or movie character who would you play
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[Applause] i don't know i don't know i don't know i
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don't know but great question you stop me thank you thank you hey Zach i'm Jason hi Jason that's my
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daughter as a father and a Christian I just want to thank you and congratulate
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you for the stand that you've taken for your faith and your beliefs thank you in an industry that tends to turn its back
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on i appreciate that and uh I don't really have a question i waited all this time just to tell you that it was on my
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heart i love the preaching in the beginning just stay strong for us and we'll keep supporting you thank you thank you very much really appreciate
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that hey nice to meet you hey hey hey um so
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just in contrast with AI said earlier do you think there are any like some benefits to it or do you think it's just
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all like No no no listen listen i I'm a firm believer and I've said this for many years you we cannot stop progress
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we can only hope to guide it right like we you can't just say no no no no no
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like I think there's going to be incredible advantages to a lot of these things in fact very soon we're going to have ear earbuds like Apple earpods are
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going to have real-time language translation right that's going to be amazing across the globe for us to travel
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anywhere for us to be able by not even travel even right here in Texas right my Spanish is I have a lot of friends that
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I would love to be able to interact with on a on a better level being able to translate that right i think that's going to be incredible it's going to
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break down so many language barriers and I'm about it that's going to displace a lot of translation a lot of translators
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we have to ask ourselves at any point is the juice worth a squeeze with that I think that the juice is worth a squeeze
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and I hope that we would also be empathetic to those people losing those jobs and help them find new jobs but we
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have to implement AI as best we can without allowing it to take over it should always to the best of our ability
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it should remain a tool in a human's toolbox and not replace the whole human that's what we need to do right i
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believe there's a balance it is a balance right there's a balance and keep in mind keep in mind it's not even just
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the AI it's who controls the AI because right now there are people that have certain agendas there are people that
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have certain slants about what they think about the world and so if you were to go to say chat GBT and you say hey
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can you write me a poem in the stylings of this person or that person and if that person agrees with their political
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agenda they go of of course yeah we'll write you a poem no matter that's fine great but if you were to ask them to write a poem in the stylings of somebody
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that they don't agree with they say oh that's hate speech and no we can't do that so that's not okay we can't do that
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we have to keep it as neutral as possible and make sure that it is never becoming our master right that's our job
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yes exactly yeah thank you absolutely I got a couple more Come on one more one
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more last question don't screw it up no okay silly question if Flynn Ryder had a
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therapy session with Shazam what do you think they'd end up helping each other with
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loving themselves good answer yeah yeah uh ladies and
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gentlemen that is my time thank you so much for coming i love you god bless you
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thank you Dallas thank you Texas we'll see you soon come on my table come on my table
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