NEW YORK, March 16 (UPI) -- Grace Caroline Currey says playing a climber stuck at the top of a dilapidated TV tower in survival thriller Fall turned her into an adrenaline junkie, so she was more than ready for her next job portraying a flying, fighting superhero in the action-comedy, Shazam! Fury of the Gods.
"When they handed me the harness, I didn't bat an eye because I spent a whole movie in one of those," Currey told UPI in a recent phone interview about the equipment she wore to execute her many stunts.
"Any element of feeling at home and comfortable is good because it is just such a big movie, you could get intimidated very easily," she said about Fury of the Gods. "I love a challenge. I love a role that I have to physically prepare for."
The 2019 blockbuster Shazam followed troubled high school student Billy Batson (Asher Angel), who is transformed into the titular adult superhero (Zachary Levi) with extraordinary, but difficult to manage, abilities -- the result of a spell by a powerful wizard (Djimon Hounsou).
At the end of the film, Billy shares his talents with his teen foster siblings Freddy (Jack Dylan Grazer), Eugene (Ian Chen), Darla (Faithe Herman) and Pedro (Jovan Armand), to vanquish the embodiments of the Seven Deadly Sins and their leader, the fiendish Dr. Thaddeus Sivana (Mark Strong).