While Fury of the Gods centers again on Billy fighting a trio of evil goddesses called the Daughters of Atlas, Mary has her own problems. Grace Caroline Currey (center) returns from 2019’s Shazam! for the sequel, Shazam! Fury of the Gods, this time as both Mary Bromfield and Mary’s superhero form. But this time, Mary has powers of her own. Once upon a time, Currey’s character was Mary Marvel, one of the first superheroines in comic books. In Shazam! Fury of the Gods, a sequel to the acclaimed 2019 film, Currey returns to the DC Universe as Mary Bromfield, the older foster sibling of Billy Batson (Asher Angel, with Zachary Levi as his superhero alter ego).

In her latest movie, Currey isn’t worried about being high up but staying down to Earth. “It wasn’t slippery and I was able to do it,” she says. The next day the winds dried the blood on the satellite, giving her traction to land. But Currey knew what was at stake and chose not to play the odds. And for women, there is always the risk of inviting harsh labels, like “difficult,” that can haunt a career. It takes willpower to insist on one’s well-being at the cost of everything else. On a Hollywood movie set, the dwindling resources of time, manpower, and patience are precious. I wasn’t going to accomplish what they wanted from me.” “I called Scott and let him know it felt dangerous. Still, while shooting the climactic sequence, Grace was asked to jump onto a small target space - a satellite dish caked in fake blood - that slanted at a scary angle.Īs mountainous winds pierced like daggers into Currey, who felt something off with her harness, she found the courage to say no. In reality they were suspended only a hundred feet high on a replica stage. Grace and her co-star, Virginia Gardner, star in Fall as two daredevil climbers stranded at the top of a 2,000-foot tower. “But I’m a normal person,” she jokes to Inverse over Zoom.įor authenticity’s sake, the filmmakers replicated a safer version of the movie’s terrifying scenario.

The 26-year-old actress isn’t afraid of heights. In 2021, during production of Scott Mann’s sleeper hit survival thriller Fall, Grace Caroline Currey struggled to stand tall beneath the setting sun of the Shadow Mountains.

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