Shazam 2's Helen Mirren Role Creates A Weird DCEU Paradox
Helen Mirren will join the cast of the upcoming Shazam! Fury of the Gods, which creates an interesting paradox in the DC Extended Universe. The paradox stems from her appearance in the The Fast & The Furious movies, where she plays Magdalene «Queenie» Shaw, the mother of international criminals Owen and Deckard Shaw. Mirren had a cameo appearance in The Fate of the Furious before taking on a larger role in the spin-off film Hobbs & Shaw and F9. This creates an amusing conflict with the Shazam movies, but one that is not uncommon for hyper-referential modern movies and television.
Mirren is a renowned British actress who has won every major acting award, but has also shown over the years that she doesn't consider herself above appearing in blockbuster franchises. In Shazam: The Fury of the Gods, Helen Mirren will be playing Hespera, a villainous demi-god who is the daughter of Atlas. Hespera is one of three daughters who will clash with Zachary Levi's Shazam, alongside Lucy Liu's Kalypso and Rachel Zegler's currently-unnamed character.
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However, this casting raises interesting questions regarding the DC Extended Universe. Described early footage of Shazam: Fury of the Gods sees Shazam making a joke about seeing every The Fast & The Furious movie when talking to Hespera, an example of the youthful enthusiasm that comes from being a child transformed into a superhero and the pop-culture inflected. However, this self-referential joke creates a seeming paradox, as if Hespera exists in his world then presumably the actress Helen Mirren doesn't.
There are a number of ways this reference can be explained without breaking the DC Extended Universe's sense of realism. Perhaps in
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