Zachary Levi Gets Real on Faith, Hollywood, and Politics | PART 1
The Ann & Phelim Scoop
The Unreported Story Society
4.7 • 556 Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2024
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
Join Ann and Phelim for Part One of a special Thanksgiving episode featuring award-winning actor Zachary Levi star of the movies Shazam and Tangled, and the NBC series Chuck.
Recorded live in Austin, Texas, this interview goes beyond the typical Hollywood chat as Levi opens up about his personal story with being on the brink of suicide to finding joy and purpose.
Levi discusses his books, Radical Love and Go Love Yourself, and shares the powerful story of how his faith helped him find healing.
Plus, you’ll get Levi’s candid take about his controversial endorsement of Donald Trump and his thoughts on RFK Jr. We also hear how friends have walked away from him because of his politics. We also try and convince the Hollywood star of the joys of the Latin Mass (he remains a skeptic).
You won’t want to miss this conversation!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the island Philem Scoop. I'm Phila McAleher. And I'm Anne McElhenney. |
| 0:04.4 | Yes, you are indeed. So we're not in our normal California studio. No. With this perfect weather. |
| 0:10.5 | Oh, we're going to get back to that. Okay. We are in fact in Austin, Texas, with its less than perfect weather. |
| 0:16.8 | For our special Thanksgiving episode, and it's a very special episode because we're interviewing a |
| 0:23.3 | very special person we're interviewing zach leevary levy our friend who is also an actor |
| 0:28.7 | and is also much much more and we're going to talk about that as well welcome to the show thanks |
| 0:34.1 | good to see you guys it's been a little while it's been yeah. Yes. Now, Zach, for those who might not be familiar with you and your work, let's do the official bio and intro. |
| 0:45.6 | Zachary Levy is an American actor, best known, perhaps best known for his roles as Chuck Bartowski in the NBC drama, Chuck. |
| 0:53.7 | And he had the leading role in the superhero film Shazam and its sequel. |
| 0:59.8 | You were the voice of Flynn Ryder, entangled, which great show as well, by the way. |
| 1:05.9 | Thanks. |
| 1:06.3 | For which you won a Grammy for that as well? |
| 1:08.9 | No, I did not. |
| 1:10.2 | No, I think that the song was nominated for an Oscar, but we lost that. Actually, you know what? I think that the song may have won a Grammy, but I didn't win a Grammy. Oh, right. As a part of that. Yeah, you sang that song on the Grammy, on the Oscars. Yes, on the Oscars. I remember that. That was very |
| 1:27.5 | impressive. I was going, I know that guy. Anyway, we always do that when you're on the television. |
| 1:32.6 | We all go, we know him. We know that. We know that guy. What, you were, you've even been on |
| 1:39.0 | Broadway. You were in a musical called She Loves Me, for which you received a Tony Award nomination. |
| 1:44.8 | My personal favorite of your Broadway musicals was First Date, which I have to say I particularly |
| 1:49.8 | enjoyed. I think you should have got the Tony nomination for that. |
| 1:53.3 | Thank you. |
| 1:54.5 | And then in 2022, you published a memoir, Radical Love, Learning to Accept Yourself and Others, |
| 2:00.8 | an amazing book which you told of your personal journey from a dysfunctional |
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