Talk about how she doesn’t love me!

Actress Laura Benanti, known for her work on Broadway and television Life & BethOn Friday, he criticized former co-star Zachary Levi, saying, “I never liked him.” She and Them Shazam! The actor collaborated on a revival of the musical in 2016 She loves me.

“Everyone said, ‘He’s so great,’ and I said, ‘No, he’s not,'” Benanti said on a recent episode of This is a Gay Ass Podcast“He soaks up all the damn energy in the room. He wants to explain the role to all of them.”

However, Benanti said Levi was popular with the rest of the cast.

“He really captivated everyone with his dance party energy,” she said. “For example: ‘We’re having a dance party on the half hour.’ I thought, ‘Good luck.'”

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The conversation turned to the actor when Benanti was asked if her memories of the show had been influenced by his recent behavior. In October, Levi, a vocal supporter of President-elect Donald Trump, was criticized for politicizing the recent death of fellow cast member Gavin Creel She loves me. In a political rant on social media, Levi blamed the 48-year-old’s death on the COVID-19 vaccine. This was despite the fact that Creel died of cancer, a rare form of sarcoma, after being diagnosed in July, his publicist confirmed Weekly entertainment.

“Using his memory for his political agenda and watching him try to make himself cry until he had a single tear that he didn’t wipe away,” Benanti said. “I was like, ‘F— you forever.'”

EW has reached out to representatives for Levi.

Benanti isn’t the first to criticize Levi’s comments about Creel. On the one hand, Broadway star Norbert Leo Butz expressed his displeasure.

He commented on Levi’s post saying he was “so incredibly disappointed that you would politicize Gavin’s death.”

“I was really trying to provide some benefit to you here,” Butz added. “Made it halfway through, which was hard as hell. But it completely broke my heart, as he would have, that you feel the need to use his life and legacy to promote this terrible platform.”