- He can basically do everything that Superman can do,
he's really, really strong, and he can fly,
I mean, who doesn't wanna fly, right?
- I love the idea that I've got a whole team of dudes,
like, pulling me around like a marionette
and I'm flying around, but the harnesses are no bueno,
they are super uncomfortable and
it's a little pinchy dudes,
it's a little pinchy down there.
- Say my name so my powers will become yours.
Shazam.
- Are you for real?
- Say it! - Okay!
- Shazam!
- Billy's had a hard life, he lost his mom
when he was very young, and he's basically been
searching for her his entire life.
- He is, you know, put into a group home
with five other foster children,
and the family that they comprise,
and that's a different and awesome kind of family.
- It's different.
- Yeah, it's huge! - That's uniqueness.
- It's, yeah.
- It's got a cool family. - And, no one's like never
seen if before, and like, this is the first thing
that all of us get to be the character of,
'cause we're just in comics.
- Suddenly he discovers that he's capable
of this amazing superpower by just saying one word.
Immediately when I got the part, I was practicing
right away, I immediately went straight to my mirror,
and I was like, "Shazam! Shazam! Shazam!"
and I just kept practicing it over and over to find,
I don't know, the right way to say it, I guess.
- I'm pretty proud to play maybe the only character
in all of comic book lore, anything in the DCEU
who could legitimately beat Superman,
and I'm looking forward to one day
maybe getting to fight Henry Cavill,
I think that'd be friggin' awesome!
The first time I put on the suit, it was really trippy.
I would say trippy is the operative word.
To put on that suit, man, was just, it just,
it was an incredibly humbling experience.
I got to pull this brass ring and be one
of these characters that very few people
actually get to be in their career and in their life.
- Perfect man, pure of heart,
flawless in every way.
- Dr. Sivana is Shazam's nemesis, he is a guy
who decides to choose the dark side over the worthy side.
He has the seven sins, wrath, greed, you know,
all these guys inside him, and consequently
spends most of the film trying to grab power back
from Shazam so that he can be the most powerful person
in the world.
- Shazam's powers are many, he, you know,
has stuff like super flight, and super speed,
and super strength, and endurance, and durability
and all that jazz, and shoots lightning
from his hands, pretty sick.
- He's obviously a superhero, which makes him badass,
but he's not badass, 'cause he's a kid
in a superhero's body, he's not always, like,
he's not super intense and angry about stuff.
He's making fun of living a boy's dream
of being a superhero, 'cause that's what you see
when you look at Shazam, instead of looking at Batman,
always angry and intense.
- Fortunately, I'm just a man-child
in so many ways, still,
sorry parents.
- He's like a big kid, I don't think he would be upset
with me saying that, he's got energy,
and he has a kind of inventive humor
that just has everyone around him feeling really good,
and I think it really suits what he's playing.
- I've always tried to hold onto my sense of awe
and wonderment, and joy and fun, and so I'm really grateful
that my very makeup, you know, the way I was wired
from birth lends itself toward playing
a man-child, I suppose, a 14-year-old inside
of a 30-something-year-old.
- I think the tone of the film encourages
that kind of lively,
fun, childish, mad humor
that Zach encapsulates, and certainly all the kids
are bringing to their parts as well.
And the more fun they're having, then the more
terrifying Dr. Sivana can be.
- Hanging out with all of the kids on set
is awesome, they're genuinely a really great group
of kids, and families with them, you know.
- We're all super, super close, I feel like
we haven't been together for that long
and we're already like, really, really, really close.
- I think we know each other's Starbucks orders too, right?
- Yeah, Starbucks order. - I do!
- We all play Nintendo Switch, I mean, like (laughs)
we're all in it to win it.
- It's gonna be a fun family movie.
You know, what kid doesn't want to be a superhero?
- It's a dream, it's a dream being
in a superhero movie, right guys?
It's a dream come true.
- We're technically part of the DC Universe now,
so, we are in a whole new world.
- [Interviewer] I mean, look at Freddy's shirt.
- Woo, represent!
- I think it's wonderful that the film is gonna be funny,
simple as that, I think, you know, we've had
a lot of dark superhero movies in the past,
which have been great, but there's time now,
I think, for humor to have its part as well.
- I think that's what young and old will
both walk away from, and go, "Wow, that was fun,"
and, "I saw myself on that screen."
And that's a really cool thing to be able to give people,
particularly in a superhero movie.