“Shazam!” star Zachary Levi has had one other DC in thoughts currently — Washington, D.C. — as he throws his assist behind Donald Trump for president.
The actor, 44, on Saturday moderated an occasion with former unbiased presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whom he had backed within the 2024 election. With Kennedy’s marketing campaign suspended, Levi expressed assist for Trump, the Republican presidential nominee.
“In an ideal world, in no matter that may seem like, maybe I might have voted for Bobby,” Levi mentioned. “However we do not reside in an ideal world. Actually, we reside in a really damaged one. We reside in a rustic that has been hijacked by lots of people who need to take this place manner off the cliff, and we’re right here to cease that.”
He added, “We’re going to take again this nation. We’re going to make it nice once more … Of the 2 selections that we now have, and we solely have two, President Trump is the person that may get us there.”
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Former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, who has additionally endorsed Trump for president, joined Levi and Kennedy on the occasion held in Dearborn, Michigan.
Explaining to attendees “why Shazam is standing right here speaking to you,” Levi mentioned he grew up in a Christian conservative household and his mother and father taught him to “have a wholesome stage of mistrust for the federal government,” including that Kennedy is the “actual deal” and the form of politician he needed to assist for president.
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Levi starred because the superhero Shazam, a younger boy who transforms into an grownup man after saying the title phrase, in two DC films in 2019 and 2023. It’s at the moment unclear whether or not he’ll reprise the function in any future movies following a reboot of the franchise beneath DC Studios heads James Gunn and Peter Safran.
Levi additionally starred within the TV sequence “Chuck” and voiced Flynn Rider within the Disney animated movie “Tangled.” He most just lately starred within the film “Harold and the Purple Crayon,” which grossed solely $17.6 million on the home field workplace.
The actor has beforehand been open about his political beliefs, saying in a 2020 publish on X that he has “at all times” been a Libertarian. “Some points I care about have been fought for by Republicans, & some by Democrats,” he wrote. In June, Levi described Kennedy by saying, “No candidate is ideal, however this man is the perfect we have had in a very long time.”
In 2023, Levi confronted backlash for a tweet that followers interpreted as spreading an anti-vaccine message. In response to a person who requested, “Do you agree or not, that Pfizer is an actual hazard to the world,” Levi replied, “Hardcore agree.”