Zachary Levi

RJ here in the LBAM Hollywood Studio with Zachary Levi.

What's happening, people?

So, you've let us in your house, we've hung out with you playing video games. We did that.

I mean, I could go to lingerie parties, but I don't look good in Victoria's Secret Pink. I'm working on my hand-eye coordination, be it through Gears of War or uh Nintendo Wii or Rock Band.

So I was going to say are you still playing video games? But I

Oh, yeah. Oh, I'll I'll always play video games. I mean they're they're interactive movies and they and they get better and better in that regard. Every year, you know, the graphics get better, the gameplay, the interactivity

And we've seen you take it pretty serious. I think you've you've even been injured once or twice because of some video game.

Well, once, yeah, once for sure. I put my hand through a a light fixture in my living room playing Wii playing Wii Tennis.

You take it pretty serious.

I don't you know, it's it's just one of on one hand you go maybe the most embarrassing thing that's ever happened in my life and on the other hand you go, well, wait a minute though. I'm I'm a nerd and I love video games, so it's kind of like that's that's like, you know, that's honor. That's pride right there. That's a good way to look at it. I scarred my body playing video games. Like who can say they've done that?

With a giant smile on their face. This guy.

So you scarred your body with video games.

Have you scarred your body on the set of Chuck?

You know, a lot of times you're doing a fight and whoever you're fighting's got a watch on. So if they're throwing a punch and you're blocking the punch, I mean I've got scars all over my hands from it. Yeah, like there and there, you know and on my knuckles and

See and they say it's not real in movie and TV and it's all just, you know, special effects that that's some pretty real stuff.

It's not real. But but it is but it is. It's not and it is. It's like Inception, bro. It's super deep.

So again, hypothetically, if you were to do cartoon voices, which we know like you've grown up, so you don't

Of course, yeah.

You know like Rapunzel, like some old

Wow, that's that is such a subtle segue. That's unbelievable. That's so like Had no idea where you were going with that. No clue what it was going to be. Yeah, interesting you should bring that up. Yeah, well, I did, yeah, Disney's new animated musical their 50th animated musical. Uh well, actually 50th animated film and it happens to be a musical. Uh it's called Tangled, which is the uh story of Rapunzel basically. But it kind of you know, an updated really fun relevant um Rapunzel. And I'm the voice of Flynn Rider who is uh dashing, bandit, charming. See that handsome fellow running for his life? That is me. They just can't get my nose right. Might I add they say possibly the best looking character in the history of Disney. Yeah, they keep saying that. I don't yeah, but But I just did the voice though. It's not like they modeled it after me. Or did they? Oh Lord. No, no, no, no, no, no. This is bad. This is very, very bad. This is really bad. They just can't get my nose right. He's almost me, but he's not quite. He's a little little more pronounced, I guess. A little more like, it's between me and like this Mid-Atlantic if I could be so bold to use the term like Mid-Atlantic. Yeah, that's right. You know, as part of the auditioning process, I had to sing and they were like, yeah, we like your voice. I'm like, oh, I'm not alone. I'm not one of those kids that shows up on American Idol thinking that they can sing and they're and then Simon Cowell's like, you're rubbish, you're rubbish. Like that would be horrible. All those days chasing down a daydream. All those years living in a blur. All that time never truly seeing. I have a I have a character at Disneyland. Such

Is that not crazy to think about that? You have a character at Disneyland.

Such a trip, man. Yeah. Well, Flynn does. I mean, so the character that I've voiced has a has a character.

It's the same thing. It's you.

Well, kind of, yeah. Except that, you know, then I go look at him and I'm like, well, you're not me, but you are the animated character, so I guess it still works out. But it's the best looking character in the history of Disney.

Which which trickles back to you. The best looking character

Exactly. Which then comes back to me and Inception. And you said earlier. Everything comes back to Inception. I don't know if anybody knows that. She could not resist me. I didn't want to have to do this, but you leave me no choice. Here comes the smolder.

There you go. Zachary Levi, Chuck and now Tangled. And the best looking character who has an English accent but not really cuz it's sort of the Atlantic.

Exactly.

But it all goes back to Inception.

Exactly.

There you have it.