Actor Meagan Good accomplished her goal of starring in a superhero project when she was cast in the DC movie Shazam . But she was initially kept in the dark about the project when she was auditioning for the movie. Which was why she briefly confused Shazam for a cult-classic 90s superhero film.
Meagan Good once shared how she was cast in ‘Shazam’ Good’s casting in the first Shazam film may have come as a bit of a surprise. Like the movie’s titular superhero, Good’s character was ten-year-old Darla Dudley, who would gain the ability to turn into a super-powered adult. The chance to star in the superhero movie was a big step for Good, who hoped to nab an action role years prior to her casting.
“For me, again, I really wanted to get into the action space. I decided four or five years ago to make a conscious decision to transform my body , to start working out. Thirty-five was popping up, and I was like, ‘Alright, it’s time to change everything,’” she once told Comic Book Resources .
“A big reason why is I didn’t see a lot of Black women in that space. I definitely didn’t see a lot of women of color in the space of the Marvel or DC Universe. So, I said in my mind, ‘I want to be in this universe, so I am going to transform my body.
’ My thought was, ‘I just want little brown-skinned girls to be able to see themselves and to say, ‘Oh, I can be that, too. I can do that, too.’” Good’s training eventually paid off in a surprising way.
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