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It’s not often that an actor might feel that his character’s death in a major motion picture was a good thing. Regardless, that is how Zachary Levi described his character Fandral’s death at the hands of Hela in Thor Ragnarok. Now to be honest, he was disappointed that his appearances in both Thor The Dark World and Thor Ragnarok were so brief. He revealed that disappointment in a recent interview with Entertainment Tonight. During that discussion, he was also asked if his death in the film might have had a silver lining:
100 percent… Taika Waititi is such a talented director. I was very happy to go and reprise Fandral even for a day in Ragnarok just to work with him. And to go see Chris [Hemworth] again and the various people that came over from The Dark World, and also to die at the hands of Cate Blanchett… if you’re gonna die, die at the hands of Cate Blanchett. But yeah, it was a bummer. I felt like, ‘Oh my God, I got to be a superhero. I got to be in a comic world of movies and then wasn’t really utilized then I was dead. So it was a bit of a bummer. All that said, like you just mentioned in hindsight, if I hadn’t died in that movie, there’s a good chance that I never would’ve gotten Shazam! because my contract would still be active at Marvel and who knows… If all of a sudden I was testing, they would’ve been, ‘No, we wanna hold on to you because we’re gonna go put you in this and have Thanos snap his fingers and turn me to dust later.
Do you feel that Zachary Levi’s Fandral might have had a bigger role had they not decided to kill off the character or do you feel, like Levi, that it all came out for the best? Share your feelings about life and death and becoming Shazam! with us at GVNation.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
Senior Writer at GeekVibesNation – I am a 60 something child of the 70’s who admits to being a Star Trek/Star Wars/Comic Book junkie who once dove headfirst over a cliff (Ok, it was a small hill) to try to rescue his Fantastic Four comic from a watery grave. I am married to a lovely woman who is as crazy as I am and the proud parent of a 21-year-old young man with autism. My wife and son are my real heroes.
