Dwayne Johnson is out and about on the promotional tour for the action sequel Fast & Furious 7, which hits cinemas this Friday, and Digital Spy managed to grab a few words about his upcoming DC movie Shazam – specifically, why he chose to play the villain Black Adam, as opposed to the titular hero.
“I felt ultimately- and this is with all due respect to Shazam and Billy Batson, it’s a mythology I love, it’s been with me for almost ten years now – what made me choose Black Adam… I just felt Black Adam was inherently more interesting to me because I felt there weremore layers to Black Adam, starting out as a slave and then ultimately becoming the anti-hero who we enjoy today… In 2007 or 2008 I publicly took a swing, I asked the fans, who would you rather see me play and I really left it up to them because at that time we were developing with Warner Bros. and New Line, and Black Adam won out.”
Shazam is set for release on April 5th 2019.
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Originally published March 31, 2015. Updated April 13, 2018.
