Zachary Levi
Appearances
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
She's so great. She is so solid as a human being. And she's so talented. And Megan, what's Megan's last name?
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
She's a rising star.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
White Lotus season two.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
The thing with Nicole Kidman.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
I don't remember either. But she was great in that too.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
Yeah, she's very talented, and we were very grateful to have her play Teresa. Drew Powell plays my basically best friend in the movie, Peter Facinelli, plays our pastor.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
Jacob Laval, yeah, who's here. He's based in New York. He's a wonderful kid, young man now. Crazy talented. Yeah, very talented, and so uniquely perfect for this role, because... You know, you're you're trying to bring a child with autism to life in the most authentic way possible. And also we were casting in the height of the pandemic.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
There were a lot of people that were just like, I'm not I don't want to leave my home. I don't want to chance it. The plague is flying around the world. So everyone that ended up playing these roles was someone that was tailor made and fit perfectly. Like, you know, God works this way. I mean. Those were the people that were supposed to be in this film with the cast, the crew.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
And it was a little engine that could. It was a thing that kind of came out of nowhere as we were preparing to make American Underdog. This was like an added bonus. And then we shot that shot American Underdog. And then we were supposed to originally the movie was supposed to come out three years ago.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
But because it was a small slice of life. family film and because a lot of people were still hesitant getting back to theaters even in you know beginning of 2022 Lionsgate and I think wisely said listen we don't want this thing to get lost we don't want to get just destroyed by these tentpole movies are the only ones doing well so let's sit on it and three years later here we are
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
I mean, I think heart is the most important ingredient in almost any story told, whether that's a comedy or a drama or a dramedy, or even if you're watching... an action movie or, you know, sci-fi or whatever. Like, are you the audience able to connect to that character?
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
The first and most important thing you're connecting through is the humanity in that character, which is the heart of that character. I've been very blessed that a lot of these roles, they come to me. Up until Shazam, I couldn't be very picky about the jobs that were coming my way.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
Now, post-Shazam, I have more offers, and so I have a little more agency in deciding, okay, we'll go this way or we'll go that way. But up to Shazam, I had say over the auditions I would go on or not, but those jobs are still like, okay, what is God going to put in my lap? What role am I about to go and play? And I will say that, you know, maybe it's because I lead with my heart.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
My whole life I have. I have a really deep empathy and love for all of humanity. And I really mean that. It's not just a... you know, a soundbite or whatever. I just, I, it's one of the reasons why I felt so compelled to even begin speaking, I guess, you know, being more open politically, because I felt like not just where I think we needed to go, but guys, we're tearing each other apart.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
We're not seeing the person across the table as a child of God. We're seeing them as the enemy. We're seeing them as a monster. And I just don't operate that way. I want to be able to go and bring people together as best I can.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
And as an actor, when I get to tell stories that are so led heart led, um, that get to tell stories that are infused with hope and, and that are inspiring that, you know, that, that bring people back to understanding themselves and each other more. I think that, you know, that's a, those are great opportunities.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
Is it also fun to go and do things that have nothing to do with that, that are just for fun, just for laughs? Absolutely. I want to do all that stuff too, but yeah, As an actor, I want to, I mean, to me, like, I'm proud of almost everything that I've done in my career.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
Well, I'm proud of everything that I've done. I see ground to exploit. On different levels, right? On different levels. But what I'm saying is I am particularly proud of this film in part because I got to play a role that really goes through it. It's not just one level of being, all right, I'm this guy.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
And not to say that other roles that I've played haven't also had levels and layers, but there's an overall kind of more... upbeat, let's say, vibe to Chuck that I did on NBC for years or Shazam or Tangled or Harold and the Purple Crayon or whatever.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
I have so much love for all these projects in one way, shape, and form, but to play this real character, similar with American Underdog, Kurt was much more stoic And so there, there was, um, there wasn't quite the same roller coaster. Like, cause Kurt was also just this really like solid dude, as you're talking about, like he wasn't struggling with alcohol.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
He was struggling with his own, like, what am I doing? I'm lost in this journey. And I, I feel like God called me to be the next Joe Montana, but that's not happening. And I'm stocking shelves, but I love this woman and she's got two kids and I love them too. And so I'm going to go commit to that and we'll see where God takes me the rest of the way.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
Scott is wrestling with God the entire time, putting on a good face. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Charming this guy, you know, working, but also just losing himself in a bottle because he's drinking away his problems because that's what so many people struggle with. I mean, alcoholism is rampant.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
Yeah. Oh, sorry.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
Yeah, it is. And I haven't really, I've only seen the movie once. Really? Yeah. We did it when John finished it. We had a screening just like kind of our cast and it was wonderful. It was great to finally see what we had made together. But I haven't seen a lot of these scenes since then. And these are things that I have struggled with, that I think we all struggle with on some level.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
Gratitude is massive. It's so absolutely integral. to the health and wellbeing of ourselves and those around us to practice gratitude. There's so many amazing studies that have been done by the way, like not just when we practice gratitude, When we see other people, in fact, I think they've shown it's even more powerful if you watch other people be grateful to other people.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
Like if you're just a fly on the wall and you watch some person help an old lady across the street with her groceries, that in and of itself, and you see that old lady grateful to that person, it changes you inside. Like it's incredible, right?
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
Ambitious, yeah.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
Yeah. And that, when I read the script and when I was, I mean, that was me. That was me tapping into a lot of my own issues with that. Because obviously we all want to go do well in this world and we want to be ambitious and you want to be successful. There's nothing wrong with any of those things. But if you're not looking at what's right in front of you,
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
right in front of you, right in that moment and being present with that and being grateful for that. And because of that, because he was struggling and feeling like he's failing. Well, when you feel like you're failing, it's very difficult to be grateful for what you've got in front of you because you feel like none of it is good.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
I mean, yeah, there's, there's, there's no coincidences, right? Like God's using all things. And I really do feel though, as a, at a very young age for three or four years old, I knew that I was going to be an actor.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
I knew it. I knew it in my mind. I can't explain it. It's like the closest thing I can, I can paint as a picture is imagine when we're with God at source in heaven, you know, whatever that other place is. Imagine like there's some kind of mission select screen that we're looking at, like an options of what is the life that my soul is going to go live or something.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
And as a part of that, there's like stipulations like, OK, you go choose this path. And part of that path is you're going to be an actor and that's going to be a part of the journey that you're going to be on. And that's going to. And I also felt very called from very, very young age to. be a leader and to love people and to like affect positive change in this world and build community.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
Like I felt these things in me. I couldn't articulate them in words that would probably make any sense. Cause I didn't have a vocabulary at that time, but the knowing in knowing in my knowing and my soul and my purpose and my calling, like I felt these things. And so, um,
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
I think that was helped along certainly by being the middle boy between two girls in a house that was full of a lot of trauma and me just trying to find an identity and a voice in all of it. Also, very early on, knowing people, having a deep empathy for people, feeling them and how they reacted to things, I knew that a smiling, laughing person felt good on the inside.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
I was tuning into that very young and I was like, oh, okay, wait a minute. Well, I know how to make people smile and laugh. I do a little joke. I do a little dance. I do a little funny impersonation or whatever. And I can evoke these responses. And making people feel good was like, oh, my God, that's the drug I've been addicted to my whole life.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
Yeah, so my mom, God rest her soul, was really a wonderful, dynamic, beautiful, intelligent, like wickedly intelligent human being who also dealt with tons of unhealed trauma. And that led her down a road that I think brought upon probably like borderline personality with narcissistic tendencies. And that's a very difficult burden for people to handle.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
This might sound strange, but I actually have a lot of empathy for narcissists. They're some of the most destructive people in the world. That's because they're some of the most destroyed people down inside of themselves. But my mom... as a borderline personality specifically, her moods were always what ruled the moment.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
So if my mom was in a good mood and I did something wrong, I broke a glass, something that was sitting on the counter and I accidentally knocked it over, shattered. If she's in a good mood and she's rocking out and she's listening to Bon Jovi or Journey or the stuff that she would be in a good mood, she'd be like, oh man. And she'd, okay, what happened? But it would be okay.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
unfortunately mom was not in that mood more often than not and it got worse and worse through her alcoholism and through a lot of other just unhealed trauma and so you knock that same glass off of the counter and it is how dare you you little shit you you know like the fangs and the claws and everything would come out but because that's what she learned from her mom and that's what she learned from somebody her mom or dad or you know this generational trauma and so you
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
Yeah, kind of. I mean, but it wasn't, I don't think it ever felt like if I could be more perfect, it was more just like you start to learn, okay, this is my reality. How do I navigate it? And my mom and stepdad both had kind of impossible. My biological father, who's also passed away, and I love him, but we didn't really have a lot of a relationship.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
I grew up with my mom and my stepdad, both of them heavily traumatized people. My stepdad was super traumatized in the ways of having thresholds that were like impossible to hit, like a bar that you could never, never really get to. Very, very, very high standards. And so that became this mission of how do I navigate that? While simultaneously... navigating a target that's constantly moving.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
It's one thing to have a- Yeah, you know, you can have a bar. Like if both parents had this impossible bar, you know, okay, well, it's just, then it's like perfection, perfection. You gotta get up there, you gotta go do that thing. But with my mom, there'd be these moments of really beautiful love and grace with the thing. It's like, it's okay, don't worry about it. And there's where the target is.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
You're like, okay, I think I'm safe. I guess I'm okay. And then the next day it'd be like, I can't. And you're like, whoa, whoa, the whiplash of it all. So then, you know, as a child, you just start to literally, you know, teach yourself or learn ways to navigate that minefield. And it's a difficult minefield. Certainly, there was the perfectionism on the other side of things.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
And that all kind of became conflated in and of itself. It was gnarly. It was a gnarly experience. But I will say... None of that. And many people deal with very similar experiences. None of that makes me a victim. None of that makes me absolved from my stupid behavior that comes out of my trauma. We are all responsible for healing our trauma and responsible for the actions that come out of that.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
I think the problem starts getting into where we start throwing blame and shame and guilt on people. It's like you should know better.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
100%. But again, like I said, I don't think anything's wasted on God. I think that's all kind of part of it. You know, our job in all of it is to make sure that we become aware of that, aware of what we need to work on in ourselves, but know that God's still going to use your trauma and redeem that. I learned so much recently.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
by growing up in my home with my mom and my stepfather, I got tools that people who grew up in really loving homes may never ever have. That's right. You know, so I see the silver lining in that, which is again, doesn't excuse any of that, but he goes, okay, all right. What was God doing in all of that? Why, why did I choose to go and have this experience in this household and
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
If my mission in life or my calling was to go and be this actor, well, shocker, all of that led me to better understanding. Again, in the midst of a lot of it, before I went through the healing that I did, I got... knocked around by Hollywood.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
Even now there are things that, you know, can be destructive, but I have worked on myself so much that I can see those who are the traumatizers in my industry and be like, Oh man, they're just lost. They're lost in that. And I want better for them. But simultaneously, I'm not going to sit around waiting for my industry to become somehow saved. I'm going to go.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
I've been very actively trying to build an independent movie studio, uh, living community for people in my industry to be able to go create art and content and entertainment that is not being scrambled and, and infused with nonsense agenda, just make great entertainment for the masses of all the way it used to be. And also simultaneously, um,
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
if I'm going to go build a studio to go do that and accomplish that mission, well, let's go build a living community into it all so we can give people better lives because we all deserve that too. And I think that there are people... You have to get out of California. Well, I did. I went to Austin. Yeah. Yeah. I'm in Austin, Texas.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
Yeah, it was right before Shazam. Yeah, so I mean, you know, like the bottom line is I was like most people doing what a therapist once told me, a lot of hit and run. Meaning... you're not the one doing the hitting, but you are the one doing the running. So you get hit with trauma. You get hit with, and trauma, there's a spectrum of trauma, right?
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
So I know people, a lot of people like to throw it around like, oh, I've been traumatized and they're not or whatever, but PTSD in war, PTSD kind of stuff is one end of a spectrum of very intense trauma. There's traumas all the way across the board. Mental health is like dental health. You can have a little cavity, you can need a full blown root canal. It's all the same type of-
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
It must. And unfortunately, most of us, are completely unaware that we're carrying this around. We have no idea. Most people are in this world. They're just surviving, right? And we're doing these hit and runs. Things are hitting us and we're just like, all right, I got to pick myself up and I got to run. I got to keep going because there's not enough time to sit and wallow in this.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
There's not enough time. I have to go work. food on the table. I mean, whatever these reasons are, you keep moving forward. And there's also a resilience in that. And I think there's something beautiful about the human condition and that we can persevere and we can do these things.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
But suffice to say, I was heavily traumatized from childhood through my industry, through my own stupid choices, bad relationships, a very short-lived marriage that was unhealthy, that I was an unhealthy person going into to begin with. My mom had died in 2015 and we were, I hadn't spoken, really had a relationship with her in 13 years at the time she did die.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
And she died tragically, like alone on a bathroom floor from complications of pneumonia. Like there's all these things that just, and you don't realize how psychologically damaging they can be or emotionally damaging they can be. And I was just trying to keep going, right? Put on that face, be actor guy, go do conventions. I love fans. I love spending time with everybody.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
I'm just going to keep doing what I do, completely unaware of just how broken inside that I was and that I did not have much more gas in my tank. And I...
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
with a head full of steam and dreams, after many, many, many years of knowing that I was supposed to go and buy land somewhere like Austin and go build this new Hollywood and save the world and all of the things that I feel like God's put on my heart, that was the driver. That was the last bit of fuel that I had left in me. And it drove me all the way to Austin.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
And I bought my 75 acres and I was like, all right, God, I thought in my hubris, I'm like two years top. So I'm that was not the plan. And, but also, but also, so I ended up there and everything. I was like, what have I done? I've blown up my life. I, I, I'm here alone living in an Airstream on this land. That's 30 minutes outside of Austin. I don't like it. Like it was gnarly.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
And by the way, it's all simultaneously. I thought, And this is a big factor. I think it's worth mentioning. I thought, you know what? I'm also like physically, I got to clean up my body. I stopped drinking. I stopped smoking. I was a pack a day smoker for like 15 years. Like, and that's a lot. Really? Yeah. And I had also had a, an Adderall prescription because I have dealt with ADHD and stuff
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
literally my whole life. I was grateful that my mom never put me on anything when I was a child, because I think it's important to allow a kid to not have to have that type of thing. However, I did find it to help me. The problem was that Adderall, I was depending on too much and cigarettes and not realizing that really what was done at the bottom of it, that's a dopaminergic dependency.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
Your dopamine system literally has been hijacked and you need to keep getting dopamine in you just to keep moving forward in life. And I thought in my infinite wisdom, I'm going to cut all this out cold turkey. Oh, boy. Holy crap. Combining all that unhealed trauma and all that unhappiness and then literally pulling the rug out from my dopamine system and having no dopamine whatsoever.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
I fell into the darkest, darkest, deepest hole that I had ever really been in. And, and I, and I was like, God, I don't want to live anymore. I don't know what to do. I don't even feel like you're real. I don't know where you are. I don't know why you've led me here to die in this darkness.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
And thank God I had the family and friends and support around me that I needed to just prop me up enough to then go to this three weeks of super intensive life-saving therapy, not too far in Connecticut. And it saved my life. It really did.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
But part of what was life-saving about that wasn't just all of this, let's say, clinical information that I was getting with lots of different therapists of different backgrounds and ilk. There was this woman, there were women who worked at this place who were companions. They were like these house moms. This place was set up for CEOs that were like- Do you say where you went? Oh, yeah.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
Is it Silver Hill? No, no, no, no. It's called Privé Suisse. Privé Suisse.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
It does sound fancy. And by the way, it's expensive. And that's part of why when I came out of there-
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
But we should change that. Yeah, totally. Which is what my mission is now, is trying to democratize, at the very least, mental wellness, mental health services and things so that we can get people. If we can get everybody right in their own heart and mind, they start loving themselves, taking care of themselves, taking care of others.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
There's nothing. Sure. But, but we are a rare amount of people. And again, that's why I say, thank God I had done well enough in my career where I could afford something that was so costly. But there was one woman there, um, who of all of these, these house moms and they would rotate through and they would basically like take care of you because you were so despondent.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
They couldn't depend on you to even drive yourself to your own appointments. So like they would have these women who were wonderful that were, you know, either wives or mothers or both that were semi-retired who had big hearts and that wanted to help these people get through their treatment. And this woman, um,
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
She prayed for me every day, even though she wasn't even supposed to, like she would pray for me. Wasn't supposed to. Well, yeah. I mean, in the book, I talk about it in the book, but basically, and I understand, by the way, they've also made amendments to their programming because of this and because of the success of it.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
And I'm very grateful to those folks at Privy Swiss for having seen the efficacy of it. But, you know, what they wanted to make sure was that nobody was getting conflicting or contradicting opinions. therapy or advice, right?
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
And sometimes you can go to a therapist that's giving you non-spiritual, just purely clinical advice, but you might have somebody over here in a spiritual sense being like, well, I don't know about that. You know, let's pray through it or let's do whatever.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
And unfortunately, I do think a lot of people who are spiritual people, Christian people, they still have this weird, like, I don't know about going to therapy because all the answers I need are in the Bible. I just pray away all of my issues. I don't think that's how that works.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
Having gone through it myself, I definitely don't think that's how that works.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
Yeah. Absolutely. And they can be very complimentary, as they should be. Your spirituality and the spiritual wisdoms that are even found in the Bible that are, I think, very much backed up by even a lot of what we're finding in science and clinical science and whatnot. So because of that, they didn't want anything contradicting itself.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
So there was kind of a rule like, hey, don't get too personal into these types of ways. But this woman saw my heart. She saw who I was. And she is just one of the most wonderful human beings that I've ever met in my entire life. Also a mother. And she prayed for me and she prayed me and loved me back to life, literally.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
Like there was a day that we were driving to one of my, I just got out of one of my appointments and I was just distraught because I felt like I'm getting nowhere. Nothing is happening. I'm still in this darkness. I still feel like I, you know, what's the point in living? And she was praying for me and she said, hey,
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
just, just know that, you know, right now I'm technically, I'm not supposed to do this. So I, if you said anything like, you know, I could potentially lose my job. And, and I said, oh my God, I would never say anything. Please don't stop praying for me. You're one of the only things that's still keeping me alive. And I always get emotional at this point. She goes, oh no, of course, of course.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
And then We drive for a moment longer. And then she turns back to me. She says, but also know that I would gladly lose my job for you. Oh. As a kid who didn't realize that the biggest thing that I was struggling through was not loving myself. And the reason why I wasn't loving myself was because I had never really gotten that from my parents as much as I know they loved me.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
They were struggling so deeply that they weren't able to model that or show that to me and my sisters, I think, in the way that they needed to. And so the thing that I struggled with the most in my life was that I didn't think I was even worthy of that love. and this complete stranger to love me, like, and legitimately love me.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
It wasn't like, you know, we all tell people, I tell people all the time, I love you, but strangers, and I mean it, I mean it, I mean it in the way that I believe God calls us to love, like as deeply as to love our enemy and pray for our persecutor, things we talked about last time. But this woman, Like she was built to be a mom loving energy in that moment. Absolutely for me.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
Like if no other, like, Oh my God, like legitimately I consider her to be. And so all of that, you know, that's all that came out of me moving to Austin and all of this stuff. And then the irony or not irony, but the kind of amazing way that God works was I was still in this therapy. I was like a week and a half in, um,
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
Or two and a half, two and a half, two and a half weeks into my three week course, essentially. And I had told my team and in Hollywood, my agents and managers, I was like, guys, I am not good. I am going off grid for three weeks to a month. Like, you know, so if anything comes around, just we're, we're putting, you know, hitting pause. They're like, awesome. Got it. Cool. Cool. Cool.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
Two and a half weeks. Yeah. Oh, and sorry, and quickly, prior to me going to this place, two months prior, I had been offered the opportunity to audition for the role of Shazam in the movie Shazam.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
And I declined it because I was like, they're not going to cast me. I'm not John Cena. I'm not The Rock. I don't know why they're coming after somebody like me. So I was like, thanks, but no thanks, and I passed. Again, not knowing that I was in a really low place of self-esteem and not believing in myself or whatever.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
So now two and a half weeks into therapy, I get this email from my agent or somebody's like, I don't want to bother you. Don't want to bother you. But there's another role. There's a supporting role. Very small, like one scene read if you're feeling up to it, but no pressure. Oh, yeah.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
Not an offer for it.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
Yeah.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
Exactly. And they... it's a supporting role. It's one scene. And that day I just happened to that. It was a Wednesday. And I just happened to have had the first breakthrough moment where I could see some light at the end of the tunnel. And I see this, this message. I'm like, this is, this is so silly.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
I like, I'm supposed to be here and doing this healing, but, but I do believe that that was all meant to be. My agent was supposed to send that because I see this and, And I'm like, I'm starting to feel a little bit better about myself. I'm confident enough to maybe, you know, put myself on tape for this thing. I go, when do they need this by? And he says, by Friday.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
So I give myself a couple more days just to see like, am I starting to stand back up again? Am I starting to feel myself again? And I was, I was feeling stronger. And so I said, you know what? Screw it, whatever. I went to the gym, I came back from the gym. It was in my room. I propped my phone up on the dresser, whatever, with a book, you know?
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
And I did one take and I sent one take of this other role. And hours later, my phone's blowing up and my agent's like, dude, not only did they love your read, but they also think you might be right for Shazam, which they have not cast yet. And I'm in therapy, finishing up, wrapping up this therapy. I'm like, what is happening right now?
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
And so then I had to explain, like, they were like, you got to get on a plane. You got to come back to LA. I was like, I'm not getting on a plane and coming back to LA. I still have a week of like the follow-up, like homework, like all of this stuff. Like I'd done the...
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
bulk of the therapy i needed to do but they were still they do give you tools to sail away yes and i was already picking up these tools along the way but still it's like you wanted to have that last week of like saying your goodbyes and getting the last bits i'm like dude i can't i'm in fact part of the reason why i'm here is because of that industry i can't just go do that and he's like okay i get it let me go talk to let me go talk to warner brothers and he comes back and he says okay um
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
Would you do a camera test? But like we can do it through basically iPads through Skype.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
So from therapy on Monday, then I had a conversation with the director of the weekend. I explained the situation. I was like, I can't put myself on tape reading these scenes. I can't do this with my with my psychiatrist. Who's going to read off of me? Yes. With Beth. Yes. Uh, Beth actually probably could have done it, but again, you want, you know, and I'm like, I don't know.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
So we decided we're going to do this Skype, you know, video camera test through, through the iPads. I did that on Monday, Monday evening rolls around phones blowing up. What dude it's between you and another guy. If you don't come, he's going to get it. If you do come, there's a really good chance that you might get this role. And I went downstairs. It was, it was Monday evening.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
I went downstairs and there was Beth, Beth in the book. That's her name in the book.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
Yes. And Beth happened to be working that evening shift. And I go, Beth, I, don't know what to do here because I can't tell if this is God, like this is, this is the fruit of having done the work that I needed to do and God calling me into this. Or if this is the darkness.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
We've got a prime role for you. You know, like whatever. I'm like, what is happening? This is a big decision. It is. It's huge. And so I go, I go downstairs and I go, I don't know what to do. And she's like, let's pray about it. So we prayed about it and we came, we both came out of that prayer and we looked at each other and we're like, I think I'm supposed to do this.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
And not because it was this amazing, feel good, oh, go do Shazam. It was actually because we felt peace. It was just peace. And I think that's what we're all looking for all the time. That's where we know we're on the right path. If you're on a path that is surrounding you in peace, that's a real good side that God is like, I'm right there with you, you know?
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
Which is not to say that God is not with us when we're not feeling peace, because sometimes that's very much the situation that we're in.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
Exactly. Exactly. Your spidey sense is going off. But in this case, it was all about that peace. And so I called my agent and I and also I went to the Heidi who ran the organization. I was like, hey. I need you to go to all of my therapists of which they were myriad. And I need you to make sure that they all sign off that I'm good enough and healthy enough to go and do this.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
Because if any of them says no, then I need to listen to that and do whatever I need to do to make sure. And she went to everybody and they all said, you know, check. He's good. You can go. And so I flew to LA. I camera tested on Wednesday, Tuesday, Thursday was off and then Friday I got a phone call and I was Shazam.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
It was three scenes. It was one where I saved Mary. She's like walking across the street absentmindedly in a snowplow, almost hits her and kills her and I go save her as, you know, as grown up Billy Shazam. Another one was the one between me and Freddie that you saw in the clip of me. I don't even know how to pee in this thing.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
And then I can't remember what the third one was, but you know, they were, they were, they were very much the scenes that were in the movie.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
Well, fortunately, with film camera testing and things like that, it's not normally a big peanut gallery of people. You've got the director, you've got whoever's operating the camera, you might have some other technicians, the casting director.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
No, the director, for sure. But the casting director, if they're doing their job well, they're bringing in all of these options for the director to see, but at the end of the day, it's the director's choice.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
And then obviously the executives getting to watch whatever that camera test is, because that's why they're filming it so they can go show the executives and get approval there, too. Ironically, with network television, although it's I don't know what it is now, but when I was coming up in television, which is the beginning of my career, 98 through 2012, really.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
That was way more difficult because with network television, in order to get a role on a show or whatever, you got to go audition for the casting director, then the producers, then you go to the studio executives. And they're literally like you're packed into a room. There's 20 executives sitting in there, arms crossed, being like, all right, monkey, make me laugh, you know?
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
And then if you pass that, you go to the network and the network is all the network executives and some of the studio executives and the producers and the casting directors. And you're just like, oh, my God. And people. It's horrifying. It is. It is horrifying. It is a traumatic experience.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
I think a lot of a lot of it now is done by like people put themselves on tape themselves and they send those those in. But it was fascinating because there were a lot of people who would just crack under the pressure. Great actors that would have been great on set, but they couldn't do that because it's gnarly.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
And then there were some people that were really good at doing a network test, but you get them onto a set, they don't know how to build a character. They don't know how to be in a scene. They don't have those particular skill sets. So it was a very interesting process, all of that.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
Listen, I had a lot of background doing lots of theater my whole life. And in theater, you are, you know, things are much bigger and broader. And I did musicals and musical comedies and, you know, all kinds of stuff.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
Poor unfortunate souls.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
That song is in my head nonstop right now. It's a great song. It's amazing. It's a banger.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
I mean, so from the time I did the first audition for the other role to the time I was Shazam was one week.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
It was one week. My whole life changed in one week. Not just because of, but very much because of the therapy that I went and did, the work I needed to do on myself.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
Megan, let me tell you what. When you really commit to doing something in your life, and this has happened multiple times over my life. I might be struggling with something, something I'm screwing around with, cigarettes, booze, girls, whatever it is. And I'm like, these are distracting me from my purpose and my goal.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
God does not wait for you to prove it to him after, well, let's see if you hold on to this for six months. Because God knows when you mean it. So if you in that moment be like, I mean this. I'm not going to go pick that up. God's like, oh, okay. Yeah, you do. I got you. And so here come those blessings.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
Because at the end of the day, I think that God absolutely has tremendous amounts of gifts and blessings that he wants to bestow upon us. It's not that God is like holding it back because, oh, you know, it God's I don't believe in this God, the taskmaster, you know, naughty and nice list and whatever all that nonsense is. And, you know, holding all of this against us. God's love for us is immense.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
And God is looking at us like we would look at our children. who are like, give me the bigger toy. And it's like, well, you can't even hold the little toy. So if you show me, you can hold the little toy. And if you can show me, you can pick up that five pound dumbbell, then I'll give you a 10. And then I can give you a 20.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
Absolutely. Absolutely. Absolutely. And as soon as our child shows that they're responsible enough to level up to whatever this new cool thing would be, driving a car, whatever it is, we want to be able to say, yes. Oh my God. By the way, we're stoked because we see the responsibility growing in them, that they are maturing, that we are maturing.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
I think when God looks at us and sees us wanting to mature, God's like, oh, praise. Yes. Because look at all of these other things that I wanted to give you, but I've had to, I couldn't because they would crush you. I think that every gift and every blessing,
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
comes with power literally the money we're given the resources we're given the relationships that we're given the careers that we're given all of that comes with power gifting blessing comes with power and if we've learned nothing else from spider-man it's with great power comes great responsibility and it's true if you want those gifts then you have to be ready for the power that comes with the responsibility i mean that's
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
Shazam, that was October of 2017. So I had just moved to Austin, I had just had a breakdown, I just went to therapy, And then this, by the way, I thought my chance of being a superhero were well in the rear view mirror. I was already nearly 40 years old at that point. And I had gotten to play the smaller role in the Thor franchise, but it didn't really do much.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
I was like, all right, I guess that was if I got one chip and I was very grateful for that too. Like I got to be in that world, but I was like, I guess that was the chip that I played and Hollywood wasn't banging down my door. So yeah, it was crazy for that to all happen as quickly as it did.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
Yeah, I mean, listen, it all depends on who you're talking to. Like, I have been super blessed that I, yes, I continue to go on a tear and continue to work and be working on projects that I am very proud of and grateful to be doing. The, you know, Shazam as a franchise, the first one did pretty well, the second one didn't, right?
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
So did those, did all of a sudden the magical doors of Hollywood burst open and everyone, you know, I got Spielberg being like, get Zachary Levi on the line. We got an Oscar performance we did in four, like, because that's what he talks like apparently.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
See, now look here, Buster. But so, you know, no, those phone calls weren't rolling in.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
My dreams continue to be fulfilled every single day.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
Well, I mean, because I jokingly... When I got... As you pointed out earlier, I was supporting Bobby Kennedy. Then the miracle in Butler and the bullet that would have changed the history of the world. Speaking of God. Oh, my God. God, yes. And...
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
But because of that, then I think the humility that started to run in Donald Trump in a way that I don't know that even existed prior to that and him reaching out to Bobby and creating this alliance.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
And then I go and I'm like, OK, I guess I'm going to I'm on the Trump train now, you know, one that I was never on prior, but one that I knew I needed to go beyond because of the state of everything and the team that he was collecting. And so Tulsi had reached out to me and was like, hey, I'm doing we're doing this town hall with Bobby.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
We had a mutual friend that introduced us, a trainer, like a trainer at the gym that I knew from a gym here in New York who moved to Austin. And I said, hey, would you come and I want to do a workout. She's like, cool. So we do a workout and we're talking about the state of the world. And I'm like, oh, man, that Tulsi Gabbard, I think she's the bee's knees. And she's like, I know Tulsi.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
I go train Tulsi sometimes. I go, oh, well, I'd love to meet her someday. Cut to a week later, we're sitting down and we're all having coffee. And I'm telling her, I think you're awesome. I love what you stand for. I love that you have the balls to have been Democrat your entire career, but recognize that the party has been lost.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
The values that it once held, a lot of values that I even agree with, have been lost. And you see that those values have transferred over here and you're supporting Trump. I'm like, that's amazing. I love all that. And I share all these same concerns and I want to be able to help in all of this, but I'm not sure what to do because... I'm in Hollywood and that's a wacky thing. She's like, I get it.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
And like a week later, I get a text or a week or two. I don't know what it was. And Tulsi says, listen, we're on the campaign trail for Trump. We're on the campaign trail supporting Trump, me and Bobby doing town halls. We would love for you to moderate one of those town halls. And I told her I got to think and pray on this because this is really crossing the Rubicon.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
But I did, and I felt peace. Again, I felt peace. I felt peace because I knew that this was more important than saving my career. I think that we too often fall into these paradigms, these thought processes of self-preservation, and it is not good. We need to be wise and we want to survive and we want to live and flourish and all those things.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
But we can't merely make decisions off of, well, I hope nothing bad happens to me.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
Oh, I did. I thought a lot about that. And I prayed a lot about that. And I knew that I had a child that was, you know, coming in on the way. And because even then my girlfriend and I knew that we were pregnant and I was like, okay, well, What am I doing? What will all this look like down the road? But again, at the end of the day,
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
First of all, I've known since I was a kid that I was born and called to be a leader. I've known it. And not in weird romantic ways or anything. The world needs help. It needs help. And the only way to go and help the world is to love the world. Nobody hating the world is actually going to make it a better place.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
They're just going to start cutting out the things that they don't like or whatever and cutting down the people that they don't like. But I really believe that we have to be able to see it as a whole and be like, okay, what can we do? How can we be effective change? So I already felt that calling on my life. And then when it came to this, I was like, so what am I worried about?
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
Am I worried if I feel like God is calling me to this? And I did. I was like, I think this is this moment. Cause I was never trying to just like insert myself. I was like, God, if you want me to go and step out in a bigger way, I need you to, I need, you know, give me the call. And the call literally came from Tulsi Gabbard. And, uh, and more than that, I'm very, I very, very much.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
And I've been preaching for a long time that I think AI is about to destroy my industry. Yeah. So I was like, so what am I, what am I worried? I know I love Justin Bateman.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
And, but I was like, so what am I really afraid of at the end of the day that I'm somehow going to lose jobs in an industry that I already believe is completely falling apart and that won't even be creating jobs for me in a few years anyway. Like, come on. If I lose all of my acting career and I hope I don't. And I, and so far I haven't.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
And that's why Bill, I think was going back to the original question. He, because I jokingly said at the town hall, I said, you know, look, I, I, this could make me a pariah and you know, I might be.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
Yeah, yeah, exactly. Exactly. But it was a joke. But a joke knowing full well that who knows? Who knows what the downstream effects would be? But none of that matters. If the world goes off a cliff, what does it matter?
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
That's why I said on the podcast when I talked to you before, what is it to gain the world but lose your soul in the process, lose our ability to have liberty, freedom, free speech? Like the things that ironically, the people on the other side are all suggesting that Trump is trying to take away, which I'm like, have you, do you understand free speech?
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
I think a lot of people don't understand free speech, that it actually protects hate speech, stuff that I don't want anyone to say. I don't want any of that to come out of people's mouths. But in order to hold the concept of free speech, we must protect- Yeah, I'm kind of proud that it can, though. Yes, exactly. And what the ACLU used to fight for, which is- Defending the KKK.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
Yeah. Yes, because we must hold onto these things. Otherwise, democracy, our republic, it all fails. And so it was like, listen- I'm not even giving up my life for that. Some people have died for that. Many people have died for that. If anything, my career dies, my acting career that I've been blessed enough to do for 25 years, if that's in the cards for me, then okay.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
God, if I'm walking with God, God will protect me.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
A cleanse and transparency. Like, why anyone? It's very indicative of those who are complicit in the corruption when they are shouting for the rooftops. No transparency. We shouldn't be looking at these things. Look at how he's tearing everything apart. It's like, no, why don't you want to know what's in all of our drugs and food and water and everything? Why don't you want to know that?
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
By the way, we all deserve to know that. These are our leaders. They're public servants. That is their freaking job. Not to tell us what's good for us and what's right. And, oh, you'll know whatever information you need to know. They seem annoyed that we want to look underneath the hood. They are.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
And that's why I think a lot of Americans, even people who didn't vote for Trump, his approval ratings are good because they're like, hey, listen, at least the guy's doing what he said he was going to do. And more than that, these were some of the things I was kind of even secretly hoping he was going to do because damn it, we do deserve to know what's going on. And then that's informed consent.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
Then I'll know, okay, that's what's in a vaccine. That's what's in this drug. That's what's in my Froot Loops. That's what's it. Okay, now I know.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
Exactly. And we should be getting into... Through the doge of it all. Look, Tulsi, I am so excited for her to be getting into and uncovering all of the secrecy and nonsense and corruption that's been going on in our intelligence agencies. Oh, my God. And everything that's going to be downstream of that. Everything that Bobby's doing with HHS. Oh, my God. Amazing.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
Doge is also a very important part of how we get to the bottom of this. But I've been trying to tell people and I, you know, I've been getting Jesse Waters the other night trying to unilaterally talk about how we're losing. Yeah. And the people coming up to me saying, oh, you just want Trump voters. I was like, no, I'm listening.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
And I'm like, guys, I was listing. That's like saying, you know, if sugary drinks were being taken away, and I would be like, guys, he doesn't understand. He's losing soda, Diet Coke.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
Listen, which I totally understand.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
Understood, but... There's a part of me, I don't, when I'm responding to people, I'm actually not, like I'm responding to them, but I'm using it as an opportunity to say something important. So it's really just, seriously, it's like, because there's other people that might be slightly thinking that, but maybe they're not sure and they're looking for clarification.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
And if I can go and put that out there, all of a sudden somebody's like, oh, okay. You know what? I was, I saw this thing and I was kind of like, what the heck?
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
Yeah. And I think that that's all of us leading by example. And again, it's like, it's super easy.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
But listen, but listen, but that's, but that I trust me when I tell you that it takes everything in me to not want to just unleash. Right. Cause that's what it does. We're all on the other side of this little keyboard anonymous or not anonymous or whatever it is, but still you're not talking to that person face to face.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
No one would ever say the things that they say on Twitter face to face with that person. They wouldn't do it. So I have to really, my ego wants to be like, destroy. And I go, wait a minute, wait a minute, child of God, child of God, child of God, lost misunderstanding, coming at me with vile, calling me a Nazi, whatever it is.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
I was like, okay, okay. This person has been programmed to believe these things. They have been lied to by legacy media for far too long. I cannot take my frustration and anger out on someone who is, by the way, not being responsible with their own reaction. But I can see that.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
I'll come in with a little wink and rub and speak what is true. And then hopefully that message is not just for them. It's for whoever wants to go see it.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
My mom was raised Catholic. Okay. And because of that, rebelled big time.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
Look at you.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
I think it's the rulers on the knuckles that really scared him away. Listen, I think that, unfortunately, while there are immense amounts of wonderful Catholics who really do love God and love their neighbor and want to do good in this world and have been very positively affected through their relationship with God through the religion of Catholicism.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
I am not a fan of organized religion writ large, which is also not to say that I don't see the benefits that came from building civilization, morality, justice, like, you know, these various laws. I understand that. And by the way, even like, And diehard atheists see this, right?
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
There's a lot of people that have come around and recognized, like, I don't believe in any of that stuff, but I see the positive value that it's brought to society, civilization writ large. I don't know what's going on with the Pope. I don't really keep a lot of tabs. I did see some of this being spoken about.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
I'm I'm more concerned with and wondering just how much that role has become influenced by other agenda. I don't know.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
There's that housing, et cetera. There's that. There's that. But also, I'm not going to lie.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
But I think there's even unfortunately more murky waters, like even when it comes to things like the World Economic Forum and Davos and all of those people.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
I know you don't want to have to think about that, but you should think about that. We all need to be aware of what is happening in the larger political game that's being played on the earth right now, globally being played on the earth. I find it
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
quite uh disconcerting that the pope is about to have a symposium summit about like health and human thriving and inviting people like dr anthony fauci i think that is very and people from the world economic forum and all of this stuff now people can call me a conspiracy theorist and wow you're you know your tinfoil hat's too tight or whatever i don't care guys like
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
Just go do a little research, dig online, follow the money, do all the things you need to do. There is corruption on the highest level, not just in our country, all around the world. And I don't understand why that would even be going on. I don't understand why the Pope would be like, yeah, you're the people of everything that continues to be revealed.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
You're the people that should be coming and having this symposium.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
Yeah.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
Oh, man. I watched it multiple times. And I've heard him talk about that before, about him being in prayer and petition for 20 years. I mean... I can feel it. I cried when, I mean, I cried when I was filming in Eastern Europe, Eurasia, when the election was happening. I think I even was, when I was talking to you, I was over there or something like that.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
And so we were up, you know, hours before the U S was up. And so I was seeing the results, the poll results and stuff like that. And I was just like, wow, I can't believe it. This is actually happening. Like, like they were able to keep all of the potential, you know, things that polls and ballot boxes and everything like legit.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
And so, and that's what I was saying to the other day to finally, cause, cause that was one step. And then it's like, okay, but we still got to get Bobby Tulsi, you know, all that. And so the other day I was on a flight home and I'm seeing the confirmation and I just started crying on the plane because I really do – like I know this man. I know him personally and I know that he has the integrity.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
And so does Tulsi to go and be a leader that is non-corruptible. There are far too many people, even good people, but it's like you dangle that just little bit of like, oh, I could, I mean, I'm going to do good, but I'm also going to take a little bit. And then that starts with a little bit and there's a little bit of compromise. And then it's a little more compromise and a little more compromise.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
And next thing you know, they're not doing any of the good. They're just in, you know, enriching themselves with insider trading or whatever it is that they're doing. And this guy means it. He means it. And. And I absolutely agree with him. I love that even when people saying like, oh, you better get in writing and don't trust that guy. Trump meant it. He meant it.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
And that should show everybody too. Like, yes, he's bullish and Trumpy and all of the things, things that I don't like. I get it. I also understand why people have such a hard time voting for somebody like that, because you want, you don't want your leader to, to have certain egotistical aspects about him, put all that down for just a moment and see the things that he is doing.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
Well is doing right. Man of his word. That was a hard confirmation. Both of those were hard. Like not only did the Democrats not want it to happen, but even these Rhino Republicans, Mitch McConnell, blah, blah, get that guy out of there as soon as possible. I mean, he's just going to freeze himself out of there anyway, but like, It happened.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
And if that's not God at work to help heal this country in this world, I don't know what is.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
Praise God.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
Like, isn't that what the... Right on. Right on. But isn't that what someone in his position should have always been doing? Yeah. And every one of those regulatory agencies should have always been doing. The FDA should have been on top of all of this instead of just taking handouts from lobbyists.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
Yeah, it's a brave new world in the most positive of ways, I hope, I believe. I mean, Lord knows there's still people working in the shadows and the darkness that are trying to derail a lot of these things. So I don't think we're out of the woods just yet. There's still a lot of work to do, right?
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
We must continue to stay in prayer and petition and believing that something really good is happening right now and do it with empathy. Make sure that people are not being just lost in this shuffle. You know, that is my appeal and I meant it and for all people. But I think that these are things.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
that have been long long long overdue long overdue and we deserve it everyone deserves this kind of transparency like light is the best disinfectant like just get in there just look at it all let's have a real coming to jesus moment and we need to do that with all things we need to bring the american public in on a lot of these things that have been secretive and no no no we can't tell them like rip the band-aid off ssri is talking about that openly i mean it's
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
Well, absolutely. But I think that there's even more effective ways of solving for all of this. And you really got to go to the source. You got to go to the root, right? Why are SSRIs pushed on everybody so much? It's because there's incentive programs. Why are vaccine and the vaccine schedule pushed on children so hard? Because there's incentives.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
Why should there be incentives for doctors to push what should just be healthy and natural and good? You shouldn't have to incentivize a doctor to encourage their patients to do something that's been tested and is safe and effective and everything. You just have a doctor say, oh, this is great.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
So why are you having to pay them X amount of dollars bonus to make sure if they get 95% of their pediatrician gets 95% of the people in their practice and the children all fully vaxxed up, and then you give them hundreds of thousands of dollars in return? This is not okay. So I think that...
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
Moreover, I think when it comes to our farming situation, listen... maybe under FDR, incentivizing farmers, getting out of the Great Depression. There was some good that they were trying to do with all of that.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
But all that did was led to, it led to like bad capitalism run amok and people in industrial farming and companies like Monsanto creating glyphosate and atrazine and all of these things that are poisoning us, which is why you can eat all the bread you want in Europe and you can't eat any bread in the United States.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
What I think, like one of the biggest first things that they can do is if instead of incentivizing farmers to do massive monocropping with industrial fertilizer, instead start incentivizing farmers. And by the way, we must because to incentivize farmers to have regenerative crops. organic farms.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
Because our soil is dead. We only have so many more cycles left because the nutrients have all been sucked out of it through all the industrial fertilizing and the tilling for monocropping. It's destroying our environment. So people that want to solve for all of these things, guys, we can help the environment and help the soil and bring down carbon in the environment.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
Like all of these things that we just go back to the way we ought to be doing agriculture. And then you don't have to spray it with all the things because there's other, by the way, ways to mitigate pests and whatnot. But also that shouldn't be in a truck going 1500 miles to a grocery store that is not local. Grow it and sell it and eat it. Within a few days.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
That's the way it's supposed to be done when we get back to more locally sourced.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
But there's ways to even get around that where it's not coming from so far and still grown and more responsible.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
Really awesome greenhouses that people can be building up and around various communities. There's a lot that can be done with that. There are greenhouses that people have been building on the rooftops of buildings in Brooklyn and in New York. That's pretty dope.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
Go on, get back out there. Go finish your dance.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
ultimately a little boy comes out and joins him and has fun it's classic great stuff yeah yeah really proud of this movie i think it's just it's it's very human it's very are people going to the movies again yeah they are i mean listen that's why lionsgate felt confident that this was a good time to release it three years ago when it was supposed to come out right after american underdog it was supposed to come out but you know around valentine's day of 2022 wow
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
But people hadn't really been coming back to the theater that much and they were like, this is not that big a movie. It'll get crushed, it'll get lost. And so I think they feel very confidently that people are back in theaters enough. And also I just think the timing of the story is now. This is the type of story and the type of movie that people are looking for.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
First week of April.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
Yeah.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
Yeah.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
Amazing.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
No, not at all. Yeah, that's Maggie. Oh, she's so beautiful.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
And she's going to be such a wonderful mom. No, I'm not scared. I... I feel, you know, again, like God's timing is good. It's perfect. It's us that want to fight it and wrestle with it. And it's like, no, no, it can't be this and it can't be that, you know, like Scott in The Unbreakable Boy.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
But I'm so grateful that even though I've wanted to be a father since I was a kid, like I've always known it's in my bones, it's in my DNA. And I would have rushed it had I met somebody that it all clicked or whatever. And I wasn't. I was married and very briefly married and divorced. And we did not have children. And we weren't supposed to have children.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
And I was supposed to have children at this point in my life after I had done a lot of work on myself so that I could love my child as deeply and as wholly as I could without spilling as much of my own generational trauma onto that child.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
We don't know.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
No, but also I look at mental illness as a, as I kind of maybe said before, it's mental illness is like dental illness is like any illness. Well, meaning it's a spectrum, right? Like if you're dealing, if you're waking up and you're just like in a funk and you've got some anxiety or some anger or whatever, it's like a little common cold. It's still mental illness.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
And you could also need a full-blown root canal, mental root canal, which is what I needed, which is why I ended up going to the therapy that I did. Still mental illness. It's a spectrum, just like physical illness. And so I don't, and I also don't believe that it's something that is ever, that's it. That's done. That's fixed. That's forever.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
And the same way that we have to brush and floss our teeth every single day, you got to brush and floss your heart and your mind every single day. You got to maintain it. It's a maintenance. And if you do that and you do it consistently, well, then you don't end up getting these cavities turning into full blown root canals. You can just keep it. In fact, you don't even have to have cavities.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
You can wake up every day and be grateful and And even when the things are coming at you, you know, meditate, pray, eat well, sleep well. Guys, I can't. Sleeping is so integral to your mental.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
I understand, which is also the reason why, thank God, we've got a night nurse and there's going to be some help. But nonetheless, yes, there will be sleep that is lost, no doubt. I know that's a part of the process, but I'm prepared for it and I can't wait.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
All right, Blondie.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
Gesundheit. The only person I know that knows anything about this Caped Crusader stuff.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
Oh, yeah, yeah. It's crazy, right? What are your superpowers? Superpowers? Dude, I don't even know how to pee in this thing.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
Hi. So good to be back. So good to see you in person. I know. Not just in a little square on a screen.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
Oh, look at this. This is fancy.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
I'm honored. I'm honored.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
Yeah, I mean, listen, my goal is always to just make excellence. From the beginning of my career, even as someone who grew up Christian and was conservative in many ways, I would consider myself a libertarian. But I've always had conservative fans and Christian fans. And I've always said I have no intention of being a Christian actor.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
I want to be an actor who also happens to be a Christian or who happens to be whatever else those other kind of – indicators are. But with this, with The Unbreakable Boy, with American Underdog, I went after those films.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
Yes, the Kurt Warner film. You know, those films resonated with me because they were excellent. I could see it on the page. They were excellently written and the team around them wanted to make them excellently. And I love this story particularly, similar to the Kurt Warner film, American Underdog. It's a true story. It's a real family and their story.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
And Scott Lorette, who I play, the father and husband, He wrote a book, The Unbreakable Boy, which this film is based on. And he was very brave and very vulnerable in showing just how not great of a father and husband he was for many years. He was.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
And more than that, I mean, you know, he and his wife, Teresa, they they got pregnant on the third date. Like that was a massive curveball. It's like, wow, this is not what I was expecting. Right. But they were like, we're going to see this through. We're going to do this and we'll figure out our relationship as we go. That was hard. That was a curveball.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
Simultaneously, during all of this right now, now they're having children in their first son, as you pointed out. has multiple things going on that he's struggling with. One is osteogenesis imperfecta, which is brittle bones disease that they, they find out kind of early on within the first couple of years, that's crazy and a massive curve ball, not what he's expecting.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
And then a few years later, he's presenting very atypically and they find out he's on the autistic spectrum.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
I think that all of these things are, um, indicative of, even if those aren't specifically the things that we go through or struggle with in our own lives, we're all, we all have these expectations of what we think our life is supposed to be, how it's supposed to look, how it's supposed to unfold.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
Scott was already dealing with his own insecurities and unhealed traumas, not really accepting and loving himself. So these things then just pile on, right? We feel like, Oh, Well, clearly I'm screwing up if all of these things, if this is where the universe or God is bringing my way, this is my karma. This is what's happening to me.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
And I was really grateful that I got to portray him and really bring it to life in a very authentic way. It's not just rainbows and butterflies and feel good. This movie, this movie has lots of that in it and humor and heart and it's infused with faith.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Zachary Levi on RFK and Tulsi Bringing Him to Trump, Secrets of Hollywood, and How God Saved His Life | Ep. 1010
But it allows the audience to go into the grittiness and darkness and hardship that the human condition brings about, what it means to just be human. And then tackling marriage and parenthood and all of those things.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Nominee Chavez-DeRemer Grilled, RFK Unleashed, Lively-Baldoni Latest: AM Update for 2/20
But I think that these are things that have been long, long, long overdue. Long overdue. And we deserve it. Everyone deserves this kind of transparency. Like, light is the best disinfectant. Like, just get in there. Just look at it all. Let's have a real coming-of-Jesus moment. And we need to do that with all things.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Nominee Chavez-DeRemer Grilled, RFK Unleashed, Lively-Baldoni Latest: AM Update for 2/20
We need to bring the American public in on a lot of these things that have been secretive. And no, no, no, we can't tell them, like, rip the Band-Aid off.