The first of the DC movies to be delivered on the 2023 release schedule was Shazam! Fury of the Gods, which saw Billy Batson and the other members of the Shazamily clashing with Hespera, Kalypso and Anthea, the daughters of Atlas. Unlike its well-received predecessor, Shazam! 2 was met with mixed critical reception, and among the criticisms directed at the sequel was that Billy, played by as a teen by Asher Angel and in superhero form by Zachary Levi, behaved immaturely. Now Levi has responded to this complain by explaining why he played the character in this specific way.
While talking about his new movie Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget, which arrives to Netflix subscribers on December 15, Levi discussed with ScreenRant his reasoning behind Billy’s personality shift in Fury of the Gods, noting that there was a specific reason why the character wasn’t as serious as he was depicted in 2019’s Shazam!. In the actor’s words:
