To kind of go, ‘Gosh, that super suit really gave me some power.’ When you don’t have the suit anymore, it’s like, Hey, it’s me, Grace! The whole experience is everything you think it is. “It was a funny feeling to be with everyone not in my suit. “We’ve got legends in our cast,” Currey says, referring to actors like Lucy Liu and Helen Mirren, who play the villainous Daughters of Atlas. Suiting up as a superhero for Fury of the Gods gave Currey confidence in her work she never knew she would have. “It’s really the kids’ persona of the characters, right? And then the adults carry that into adulthood.” There’s no answer provided in the movie as to why Mary looks like, well, Mary in her superhero form. It was really lovely that she was so mindful.” But she was so beautiful on the first one, wanting to make sure that what I was establishing as Mary in her human form, she was being mindful of. I felt like I don’t want to be taking anyone’s spot. So when I got the call, it was a little hard to be excited. “It’s never lovely to have someone from the family not be in the next one. “It’s a tricky situation, because Michelle did such a beautiful job in the first one,” Currey says. This time, Currey dons the kevlar threads of Mary’s powered-up alter ego, replacing Michelle Borth. Grace Caroline Currey returns with most of her Shazam! co-stars in Shazam! Fury of the Gods. ”Ĭurrey expresses gratitude to Borth for her work in the 2019 film, revealing they had a collaborative process in fleshing out the two versions of Marys as a single character. There was a phone call from my team before we shot, letting me know. Even early on, those conversations were going on. “When I was cast, they were saying they don’t know yet if they’re going to have one actor for Mary and Superhero Mary. “On the first one, they were weighing on whether or not they were going to have two actors for Mary, considering she is around 18,” Currey tells Inverse. The 26-year-old is the only actor in the cast to have a dual role, credited as both “Mary Bromfield” and “Superhero Mary.” In the 2019 predecessor, Michelle Borth ( Hawaii Five-0) wore Mary’s costume.Īs part of a wider interview with Inverse, Currey reveals there were conversations among the producers to have Currey play her superhero form in Shazam! and that it was a “tricky situation” to pursue those plans for the sequel. Grace Caroline Currey, who played Billy Batson’s older foster sister Mary in Shazam! and returns for Fury of the Gods, now steps up to wear the cape herself after Mary shouts the magic word. Not much has changed for the sequel, Shazam! Fury of the Gods, except for one. When the Shazam Family first got their powers in DC’s Shazam!, its ensemble of young actors were transformed into - or rather, played by - grown adults in colorful costumes.
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