Zachary Levi, inset: Timothee Chalamet Jamie McCarthy/Getty Photos ; Karwai Tang/WireImage
Zachary Levi has some ideas on whether or not or not Timothée Chalamet will play Flynn Rider within the live-action film Tangled.
“Oh, I feel he can be nice,” Levi solely informed Us Weekly of the rumored casting whereas attending the New York premiere of The Unbreakable Boy on Wednesday, February 19 at AMC Lincoln Sq..
“I’d completely log off on Timothée,” he added.
Levi, 44, lent his voice to the 2010 animated movie, alongside Mandy Moore’s Repunzel and Donna Murphy’s evil Mom Gothel. Levi went on to inform Us that he doesn’t know if the powers that be will “ever make a Tangled 2 film.”
“We did a Tangled sequence,” he added, referring to the 2017 sequence Rapunzel’s Tangled Journey that featured the returning voices of each Moore and Levi. The sequence ran for 2 seasons.
In December 2024, Deadline and Selection reported that Disney’s 2010 Tangled was getting a live-action remake. In accordance with the shops, The Best Showman director Michael Gracey is in talks to direct.

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Do Revenge and Thor: Love and Thunder author Jennifer Kaaytin Robinson reportedly wrote the newest model of the Tangled script.
Revisiting his work on Tangled – whether or not through a live-action film or just a 2010 animated movie re-watch — is actually in Levi’s future, as he’s making ready to change into a father. In December 2024, Levi introduced through Instagram that he and girlfriend Maggie Keating expect their first youngster collectively.
“I’ve wished to be a dad since I used to be actually a child,” Levi wrote on the time, alongside an image of an ultrasound. “I’ve at all times felt that decision on my life. This need in my coronary heart. A wierd feeling of incompleteness by not having that stage of affection and accountability in my journey. That one of the best years of my life can be on the opposite facet of lastly being a father. However deep down I knew that there have been issues in my life that wanted to shift earlier than I used to be prepared for the blessing of one thing so particular and the tasks that include it.”
Levi went on to say that “final November” that aforementioned shift occurred, which he credited to “loving and valuing myself extra.” He additionally praised his girlfriend Keating, calling her a “fantastic lady on the identical journey of self discovery and love, able to step into a brand new and wonderful chapter of life with me.”
“We are able to’t anticipate ya’ll to satisfy our little bambino,” he continued within the put up’s caption. “We’re ready till the start to know the intercourse, however I’ll be stoked out of my thoughts both approach. Maintain ‘em unique, however not TOO unique. We don’t want them being bullied greater than their theater-nerd father.”
When requested how his current position in The Unbreakable Boy – a film a few boy and his dad and mom discovering braveness, pleasure and gratitude in a attempting circumstance through which Levi stars alongside Jacob Laval – ready him for impending fatherhood, the actor stated that working with “anybody, be they a toddler or one other grownup, teaches you empathy.”
“It teaches you that there’s one other soul on the market that’s not you, that’s residing a completely different existence and one other life, and so they’re doing their greatest,” he informed Us. “And notably with youngsters, whether or not with youngsters or adults, could we at all times stroll extra patiently. Might we at all times stroll in additional kindness and extra love. Jacob has this unbelievable power that all of us received contaminated by as he introduced Austin to life. For us, we had been so blessed to seek out any individual as proficient as a result of youngster actors, it’s powerful. They haven’t had quite a lot of expertise performing, in order that they’re coming with quite a lot of their very own uncooked skills, and Jacob was fantastic.”
Reporting by Andrew Nodell