Laura Benanti may have directed the 2016 Broadway revival of She Loves Me with Zachary Levi, but the actress certainly doesn’t share the title’s sentiment. Benanti opened up about the bad feelings she has toward her former co-star this week on That’s a Gay Ass Podcast, hosted by Eric Williams.

“I never liked him. Everyone was like, ‘He’s so great!’ And I was like, ‘No, he’s not.’ He’s soaking up all the damn energy in that room. “He wants to explain the role to everyone,” Benanti said. “He really captivated everyone with his dance party energy, saying, ‘We’re having a dance party on the half hour.’ I thought, ‘Good luck, have fun.’”

Benanti’s criticism of Levi reached an emotional peak when the conversation touched on her “She Loves Me” co-star Gavin Creel, who died in September at age 48. The Tony Award winner, whose Broadway credits also included “Hair,” “Hello, Dolly” and “Into the Woods,” died of metastatic melanotic peripheral nerve sheath sarcoma. When Levi discussed Creel’s death on Instagram in October, he spread an unscientific theory related to COVID vaccinations.

“I know this will offend and make some people angry and I wish that wasn’t the case. A few weeks ago my friend Gavin Creel died. He was 48 years old and one of the healthiest people I knew. …You better believe that if these COVID vaccinations weren’t forced on the American public, I believe with my heart and soul…” Levi said before trailing off.

Benanti criticized Levi for using the issue of Creel’s death to spread misinformation about vaccines: “That he used Gavin’s memory – a person he was not friends with – to use his memory for his political agenda and him in the process watching him try to make himself cry until he…”I had a single tear that he didn’t wipe away and I thought, ‘Fuck you forever.'”