Zachary Levi Shares What God Taught Him During the Filming of ‘The Unbreakable Boy’

Kingdom Story Company and Lionsgate release their newest film, “The Unbreakable Boy,” on Feb. 21.

Kingdom Story Company is the film studio that brought moviegoers “Jesus Revolution,” “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever,” “Unsung Hero,” and “I Can Only Imagine,” and Lionsgate is the studio behind “Wonder.”

“The Unbreakable Boy” stars Zachary Levi (“Shazam!,” “Chuck,” “Tangled,” “Thor: The Dark World”), Patricia Heaton (“Everybody Loves Raymond,” “The Middle”), Jacob Laval, Meghann Fahy (“The White Lotus”), and Drew Powell (“Gotham,” “Ordinary Angels“).

Directed and written by Jon Gunn and produced by Kevin Downes, Jon Erwin, Jerilyn Esquibel, Peter Facinelli, Andrew Erwin, “The Unbreakable Boy” tells the true story of a boy, named Austin, who lives with autism and has brittle bone disease. The film takes viewers on an emotional journey and gives audiences the chance to relate to Austin’s story through the lens of his parents, who are played by Levi and Fahy, as well as his sibling and friends.

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The script was “just beautiful,” Levi told ChurchLeaders. “I love that it was a true story [and] I love that it’s a true story that isn’t just rainbows and butterflies and sunshine.”

“There’s a beautiful underpinning of faith throughout the film and beautiful messages of love and hard work and perseverance through the difficulties of life,” he added. “Life throws a lot of curve balls at us, and there are so many curveballs that get thrown at us in the film. But at the end of the day, it’s something that is representative of what it means to be a human being and to navigate all of those waters.”

Levi expressed that it is stories like “The Unbreakable Boy” that “we need to to tell and that we need to watch.”

Levi shared how God used the filming of “The Unbreakable Boy” to teach him how to love himself. He said:

I had a pretty significant breakdown about seven-and-a-half years ago, and went to life-saving therapy, and in the midst of that, learned that I had never learned how to love myself. That was a shocking thing to learn at 37 years old. And I think that over these last seven-and-a-half years, God continues to use every opportunity to teach me and to show me that I’m worthy of loving myself. That love starts with God, and then that continues to resonate through us, so that we can be more conduits of love for everyone around us.

“And this film,” Levi said, “was just another beautiful example of that.”