After her breakout position as Maria within the remake of West Side Story, Rachel Zegler returns to the silver display screen because the character of Anthea in Shazam! Fury of the Gods. However, this wasn’t the one position within the playing cards for Zegler at DC Studios, with the actress revealing she had beforehand been rejected from the position of Supergirl in The Flash.
This revelation got here from an interview Zegler did with Slashfilm the place she spoke on the manufacturing of the Shazam! sequel with co-star Lucy Liu who performs Kalypso, a fellow daughter of Atlas. During the interview she was requested in regards to the means of auditioning for this movie versus the method for West Side Story:
“Oh gosh, it was so fast,” stated Zegler “I auditioned for ‘West Side Story’ for a year…So then with this one, I booked them a month and a half, and I was like, ‘Is this what it’s like? Is it supposed to be like this?’ And my agents were like, ‘Yeah.’ But no, I read for Rich [Delia], who was our casting director, and he originally had come to me with Supergirl for ‘[The] Flash,’ and I was not right for it. He was like, ‘You know what, I’ve got a character in mind for you for ‘Shazam.’ They’re looking at X, Y, Z. We would love it if you came in and read.’”
The position of Supergirl in The Flash ultimately went to Sasha Calle. While Calle could have landed the position, her future in it’s simply as unsure as many different elements of the DCU. She was initially rumored to have a solo movie slated to return out after The Flash, although it appeared as if the movie had been cancelled as early as when Batgirl was first cancelled. It has additionally been left unclear whether or not she is going to reprise her position within the lately introduced Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, with James Gunn saying that even he doesn’t know Calle’s future within the role.
The expertise behind the Shazam! sequel
David F. Sandberg directed Shazam! Fury of the Gods from a script written by Henry Gayden and Chris Morgan, Shazam! Fury of the Gods. The movie stars Zachary Levi, Asher Angel, Jack Dylan Grazer, Adam Brody, Ross Butler, Meagan Good, D.J. Cotrona, Grace Caroline Currey, Faithe Herman, Ian Chen, Jovan Armand, Marta Millans, Cooper Andrews, Djimon Hounsou, Rachel Zegler, Lucy Liu and Helen Mirren.
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