Michelle Borth on that Shazam surprise ending and playing Mary Bromfield

We also interviewed Marta Milans, who plays Billy’s mother. She said the film has an underlying message that even if you feel like you don’t belong or don’t have a family, you can make your own family. It seems you feel that way too?

Yes! It’s right on. Especially today, in this fancy, technological world, you often feel isolated. There are a lot more broken homes now then there were in my generation. We can find families in friends, we can find families working. I found a family working on this film, like not even trying to be cheesy at all. It’s really rare. I’ve walked away with six best friends and it’s just a total example of what we were submerged in.

We were in that head space and we treated each other like brother and sister. And usually when you walk away from set, sometimes it’s like “I’ll see you around” or “I’ll see you at the premiere” or something like that. It’s never like crying, hugging, saying “I love you.” I cried before getting on the airplane. I had full-on tears to leave and that goes to show that the message ran deep through us and I think it will show too.

Do you have any funny stories from being on set or a favorite moment with the cast?

One of the funniest things is that these superhero costumes are a work of art. They are beautiful pieces all put together, but they are extremely constricting and very difficult to get in and out of. So once you’re in it, you try to just stay in it. I know that this goes across the board to everyone who has played a superhero, but they just haven’t figure out how an actor can go to the bathroom.

Everyone else in a full bodysuit on set, they’ve got legs and a top. Mary Marvel is just in a onesie with a skirt. So, mine was very interesting. There was a situation where I had to use the bathroom very bad. I ran to the bathroom, undid my costume, but it’s impossible to do yourself up. There’s like eight different mechanisms you have to clasp and snip and it’s all in between my legs.

I wobble back to the greeting room, holding it like a bathing suit, asking can someone please buton me up! All the guys gave me a look like “nope, we’re not touching that, not going near that.” My Girl Meagan (Good), who I feel we were separated at birth we’re so close, she helped me out!

Glad someone could help, for sure! Now, onesie issues aside, how did you feel getting to play a superhero?

It’s ridiculous. It’s hard. It’s ridiculous.

It’s hard to explain or articulate in words. I didn’t know how bad I wanted to be a superhero until I got cast as a superhero because to be completely honest, it wasn’t something that I had on a checklist somewhere. And then the minute that I got cast, the weight of it really sunk in and all of a sudden, I was terrified because projects fall through and you know, things happen and they don’t pan out.

I remember I felt like this cannot fall through. I want to be a superhero so bad. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity, a once in a lifetime thing for an actor. You know, it’s up there and I didn’t realize it until I got it. And then once we were there shooting and we were all in our costumes and we were on this insane set… it’s all very overwhelming. You just, you feel so lucky. You feel so grateful and you also feel proud, you’re so proud, but then you also feel a certain sense of responsibility as well.

When I’m all done up — and Mary is very different from who I am in real life physically — it is really a surreal moment of like. Oh my God, I’m Mary Marvel. I feel so blessed. I can’t even describe it.