Laura Benanti Slams Zachary Levi for Using Broadway Costar Gavin Creel's Death for His 'Political Agenda': 'Never Liked Him'

Laura Benanti makes it known how she feels about Zachary Levi.

Benanti, 45, spoke candidly about his feelings for her She loves me costar, 44, along with his feelings on how Levi dealt with the death of their co-star Gavin Creel, during an appearance on Wednesday, Dec. 4, in the It’s the Gay Ass Podcast.

“I never liked him,” Benanti said of Levi. “Everybody said, ‘He’s so great!’ And I said, ‘No, he sucks up all the fucking energy in this room. He wants everybody’s part in them.’

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Laura Benanti and Zachary Levi at the ‘Boys In The Band’ 50th Anniversary Celebration at the Booth Theater on May 30, 2018.

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Benanti said that every night Levi tried to force the cast to go to a dance party, which she says she did not want to participate in.

“He really drew everyone in with his energy like a dance party,” she continued. “Like, ‘We’re having a half hour dance party.’ I said, ‘Good luck.’ ”

But the way Levi reacted to the death of their colleague Gavin Creel was what really upset her.

Creel died on Monday, September 30, at the age of 48, amid treatment for a rare and aggressive form of cancer called metastatic melanotic sarcoma of the peripheral nerve sheath. Cancer develops in the body’s bones or soft tissues, such as muscles, fat, blood vessels and nerves. Creel had been diagnosed just a few months before, in July.

During an Instagram live stream in October following Creel’s death, Levi implied that Creel died as a result of the COVID vaccine, according to Deadline.

Tony Award-winning Broadway star Gavin Creel dies at age 48 of an aggressive form of cancer

Gavin Creel poses at the ‘Thoroughly Modern Millie’ 15th Anniversary Reunion After Party at the Opry City Stage on February 12, 2018.

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“For [Levi] use [Creel’s] memory – a person he wasn’t friends with – to use his memory for his own political ends and watch him try to make himself cry until he had a single tear, which he didn’t wipe away, I said, ‘F— you forever,’ he said is Benanti.

The actress added that she believes that Levi’s conservative views will help him in the future.

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“Everybody says, ‘It’s career suicide.’ But it’s not career suicide because Christian, faith-based television and movies are huge,” she said.

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“He’s going to be a big fucking star in that world,” she continued. “He’s going to make more money than ever. It makes me sick, but also a little, like, ‘I told you, mother——.’ ”

Levi’s representatives did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.

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