[laughing]
Coming in hot, coming in hot.
Oh! Okay.
Come on!
[man] And up,
-and down. -[grunts]
And up...
[exclaiming playfully]
[Levi] I've been at the gym five days a week
just pushing as much weight as I possibly can every single day
and eating 3, 700 calories a day
like something stupid and insane.
Which, by the way, I found out is on the low end of what...
You know, there's some guys, they eat like 6,000 calories a day.
It doesn't seem possible.
l feel like you'd just be chewing all day.
It could be worse.
[Djimon Hounsou] You have to see Zac
before he was cast for this film.
You see, truly, a superhero transformation.
-You look great, bud. -[man] So do you!
Thanks. Well, you know, I've been working out, so...
The beautiful thing about it is that
there's not a scene in the movie where I'm shirtless.
[laughing] So the pressure is off.
Of course, you know, the costume will have muscle in it, as well.
-Oh, there he is. -[Levi chuckles]
Oh!
[Leah Butler] David wanted the costumes to be true to the way...
...that the character has looked in past comics.
It's a little boxy. I feel a little frumpy.
[laughter]
It's as if Shazam joined a nunnery.
We embraced the classic themes, the classic looks
from the historical Shazam costume.
The red, the white cape,
the boots, the thunderbolt.
[Sandberg] I wanted him to have the short cape,
which is a throwback to the old Shazam.
But then he also has the hood of the newer Shazam.
_[Freddy] Y0“ QOt a Cape? ‘I QQT a Cape! .
-lt's got a hood. -Yeah, that's pretty cool.
I kinda look like a gangster superhero.
[Sandberg] And then we came up with these Greek patterns on his suit
as a callback to the origins of the mythological Greek gods
which is the source of his powers.
I love it.
-I get to wear the spandex. -He does.
Which has its pros and cons, you know.
I don't know... I don't even know how to pee in this thing.
You know, I've got these zippers where I can go
and take a number one,
but if I gotta drop a deuce, I gotta take the whole suit off.
Like, that's a lot, guys!
I've been trying to get this thing dry-cleaned,
-it's a pain in the ass, guys. -[laughter]
I got to go to my magic dry cleaner...
And so far, I'm not even kidding, I'm batting a thousand,
I have yet to have to take my suit...
I gotta wear it for ten hours straight.
I've got solid bowels, ya'l|.
I can hold this stuff in.
Yeah, Idid.
So who's doing the heavy lifting? Huh? Really?
-My bowels are doing the heavy lifting. -[|aughs]
Day time,
-night time. -[laughter]
Shazam's emblem or icon
is the big lightning bolt.
It's sort of a signal, almost, of his magic.
So we have it light up in the suit.
One of the biggest challenges for us
was this lit piece in the chest, you know?
We really wanted it to be a practical lighting piece
so that we can see all the reflection on the body
and the muscles and the face.
Chest lights.
We have a lot of things that light up in this film,
and they do malfunction.
[man] And three, two, one, go.
[man grunting]
[Freddy] Hyperspeed, check!
No, it's cool. Uh, my suit's not working.
So you're shooting, yeah, in the middle of the night, it's super cold,
and all of a sudden, the bolt stops working.
Did itjust turn off or did you turn it down?
[man] No, it turned off.
[Butler] We had producers kinda standing there going,
"Uh... What's going on?"
And our AD, who's like, "Oh, Leah, what's happening?"
The wire could be somewhere in my back.
It could be somewhere in my shoulder,
it could be somewhere in my arm, I have no idea where they put it.
We can't find it until you take the whole suit off.
[Butler] We weren ‘t quite sure what had happened,
something within the wiring,
and we ended up having the electricians come in.
Our tech guys were just maestros
of figuring out what little element had gone wrong.
Luckily, everything got worked out
and it's just been smooth sailing ever since.
It's crazy, right?
[Sandberg] There's been times, it was like,
"Why did we even do this?"
But then you get some of those cool shots where he's like,
coming out of smoke, being revealed,
and the first thing you see is that lightning bolt shining through.
And it's like, "Okay, it was worth it."
That's great. And cut.
[woman] Cut it.