Zachary Levi is aware that his religious and political beliefs have impacted his acting career. The “Shazam! Fury of the Gods” star has made his views on Christianity, vaccine skepticism, and his support of Trump more prominent in 2025, thanks in part to his very active X page. Levi, who is now building his own studio, told Variety that voicing his views will benefit his work in the long run, despite knowing that certain filmmakers now will refuse to collaborate with him.
“I know that there are people that would prefer not to work with me now because of my opinions,” Levi said. “My team has let me know. They haven’t given me any specific names, but there are people who prefer not to work with me at this time. And it’s unfortunate. I knew that was probably going to happen. I didn’t make this decision blindly or casually.”
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Levi is a devout nondenominational Christian, and despite voting for Donald Trump, now says that he was “not a fan of Trump’s Trumpiness” in the public eye. “I didn’t like a lot of these personal things, the ways that he carries himself a lot of the time. I understand people’s aversion,” he said. “Do I think the whole package is somehow perfect? No. In fact, most people who voted for Donald Trump recognize a lot of the imperfections in all of it. Nobody was saying, ‘This is the Orange Messiah.’”
Levi’s former “Shazam!” co-star Rachel Zegler posted that she hopes Trump supporters “never know peace,” though Levi says that doesn’t change his opinion of her. And DC Studios chief James Gunn was asked about Levi’s tweet about Pfizer and said “I can’t be changing my plans all the time because an actor says something that I don’t agree with.”
“While there are some people who might prefer not to work with me anymore, there’s a lot of people on that side of the political spectrum who are even more inclined to hire me and to want to do business with me because ‘I need some people who voted another way,’” Levi said. “They see that what I did was at great risk. And they were like, ‘You know what? I give you a lot of props for that because that’s not an easy thing to do.’ And I go, ‘I appreciate that.’”
He added that he believes his career will flourish in its own way, on its own path: “I know it to be true because I’ve gotten messages from lots of people who I won’t name but who were very grateful to me for taking the stand that I took,” Levi said. “And also they would tell me, ‘I want to do that, but I’m so afraid.’ And I would tell them, ‘Listen, you’re on your journey. I’m on my journey. You’ve got to keep trusting God. And if you feel compelled to step out in that way, then do it boldly and know that you’re going to be OK. And if you don’t feel that conviction yet, then don’t. It’s all good.’”
