The 66-year-old actor tells ET that he's been spending his time in quarantine working on his cars, reading his old philosophy books and chatting over the phone with his friends, including Jay Leno. 'It was a neat idea of what superheroes are really capable of doing.'

It was very different in script form, much darker than when it came out and what the studio decided and the powers that be decided to make it into a family movie,' Allen recalls. 'I am a superhero guy and I helped write that movie. Back in 2006 when people talked about Zoom, they were most likely referring to the action-adventure comedy movie that came out that summer.įourteen years later, Zoom is commonly used when referencing the video conferencing technology that has grown in popularity since the coronavirus pandemic left people quarantining from home and working from their living rooms.ĮT's Nischelle Turner chats via Zoom with Captain Zoom himself, Tim Allen, about his 2006 film and if he's seen a resurgence of popularity for his character.

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