I like the truth that this is not darkish, and I might like to understand how you stability the tone between a few of the darker features of it with the kind of joyful really feel of the entire film.

Yeah, I believe the enjoyment is kind of there naturally within the character, and the actors actually convey that to it. It is like being a toddler. However no, I believe you want some darkish moments as nicely to only make the menace and the hazard really feel actual. These are the type of motion pictures that I like essentially the most. You will have a little bit little bit of that sprinkled in to make all of it really feel actual and harmful.

We spoke to you after the screening, and one of many belongings you had been speaking about is making a film a few DC character who is not one among DC’s huge three [Batman, Wonder Woman, Superman], so you do not get as a lot anger on-line. I might love to listen to extra about your ideas on that, and would you ever need to do one thing with one of many huge three?

I believe the trick is with somebody like Superman, as an illustration, there have been so many various variations of it, and everybody has their very own concept of what it needs to be. That is the beauty of Shazam: There have not been that many variations of him, and folks do not know that a lot about it. There have not been motion pictures earlier than. There’ve been TV reveals and serials and issues like that. So I believe persons are extra open to it. They are not so set in that, “That is what it must be” [mentality]. There’re a few them like that.

There are all the time a few them.

However it’s liberating — we are able to do our model of it. And now I believe it could be fairly formidable to tackle somebody that is extra recognized.

I used to be watching “Graham Norton” and Helen Mirren talked about that she broke her finger and that it was kind of bent, however she mentioned nobody knew on set. Do you know?

No, I discovered afterwards. I used to be like, “Why? She did not inform us.” However I imply, she’s such a trooper. She needed to do her personal stunts and every thing and she or he does lots of it. We put her on wires and obtained her up within the air and every thing. She’s hardcore.

How did you get her? As a result of simply listening to that she was going to be in a superhero movie was so cool.

I used to be stunned as a result of that was kind of our reference of, “Oh, somebody like Helen Mirren, think about that.” So we requested her to kind of simply, “Okay, we’ll get her ‘no’ after which we’ll transfer on.” However she really mentioned sure, and that affected the remainder of the casting as nicely. As a result of the position of Kalypso by Lucy Liu, initially, we began simply doing auditions and looking for somebody lesser recognized, however when Helen Mirren mentioned sure, it was like, “Okay, we have now to essentially up our recreation right here and discover somebody who can act towards her.” After which we considered Lucy Liu, and she or he mentioned sure as nicely. It in all probability helped Helen Mirren already mentioned sure.