Laura Benanti may have led the Broadway revival of “She Loves Me” with Zachary Levi in 2016, but the actress certainly doesn’t split the sentiment of the title. Benanti uncovered up about the ill senseings she upholds about her createer co-star this week on the That’s a Gay Ass Podcast, presented by Eric Williams.
“I never appreciated him. Everyone was appreciate, ‘He’s so fantastic!’ And I was appreciate, ‘No, he’s not. He’s sucking up all the fucking energy in this room. He wants to mansplain everybody’s part to them,’” Benanti shelp. “He reassociate sucked everybody in with his dance party energy, appreciate, ‘We’re doing a dance party at half-hour.’ I was appreciate, ‘Good luck, have fun.’”
Benanti’s criticism of Levi accomplished an emotional peak when the conversation touched on their “She Loves Me” co-star Gavin Creel, who died in September at the age of 48. The Tony Award triumphner, whose Broadway praises also engaged “Hair,” “Hello, Dolly” and “Into the Woods,” died of a metainactive melanotic peripheral nerve sheath sarcoma. Speaking about Creel’s death on Instagram in October, Levi floated an unscientific theory tied to COVID vaccinations.
“I comprehend that this is going to offfinish some people and create some people mad, and I want it didn’t. A restrictcessitate weeks ago, my frifinish Gavin Creel died. He was 48 years elderly, and he was one of the healthiest people I krecent. … You better consent that, with everyslfinisherg in me, I consent that if these COVID vaccinations were not forced on the American disclose…” Levi shelp before trailing off.
Benanti blasted Levi for using the topic of Creel’s death to spread vaccine deceiveation: “For him to engage Gavin’s memory — a person he was not frifinishs with — to engage his memory for his political agfinisha and to watch him try to create himself cry until he had one individual tear, which he did not wipe away, I was appreciate, ‘F—k you forever.’”
