Chris Pratt covers the February issue of Vanity Fair. It’s his first-ever VF cover, which is remarkable considering that Pratt is currently Hollywood’s go-to leading man. It just goes to show you that Pratt is sort of bulletproof these days too – his latest film, Passengers, got terrible reviews and the box office for the film is pretty mediocre. Studio sources insist the film will break even when all is said and done but what does it matter? Pratt doesn’t have to wear that failure. As for this profile… he’s really going all out in the interview. He tells his life story, he talks about God and he even cooks wild-boar tacos for the VF journalist. He was supposed to be cooking wild boar meat from a boar he killed himself in Texas, but when the meat was shipped to LA, something happened in transit, so Pratt had to buy boar meat from Whole Foods. You can read the full VF profile here. Some highlights:
His cooking skills: “I can make three things. Meat. Omelets. Fajitas. This here I’m making is a wild-boar taco. I got the recipe from my brother-in-law, because that guy knows everything.”
He took Jim Carrey’s advice to take a break: “There’s very few people in the world who I can expect to understand exactly what I’m going through. Jim Carrey is one of them.” Pratt took Carrey aside at a party last year and basically asked, What do I do now? Carrey said, “There’s going to be a point in life where you’re going to have to prove that your family is more important to you than show business.”He was a football player in high school: “[My dad] was bigger than me, much bigger, and he’d light up the stadium when he carried the ball. He wore number 76, and for years I thought the gas station was named for him. So of course I played. I was a great football player,” he said, then stopped and looked at my recorder. “Don’t say I said that. But, dude, I was a great football player. I was a fullback and an inside linebacker. I never had the speed to play college. But I loved it. I don’t think anything will ever take its place. The competition, the team. You get a little bit of that in acting. You get it with action films. You have to train, be in shape. I think I learned more about how to handle myself as an actor playing sports than I ever did in theater.”
His beloved older brother discouraged him from joining the military: “He ended up going into the army and told me not to. I think he saw something in me. I was a peculiar kid. I was very much an individual and happy to be an individual. I dressed funny and was comfortable in my own skin. I don’t know. I never did ask him why.”
Working as a salesman, his belief in God: “I was selling coupons for things like oil changes or trips to a spa,” said Pratt, who told me it didn’t really matter what he was selling because a salesman only has one product: himself. “I was great at that,” he said. He got absorbed in this new gig, walking through town, making the same pitch again and again. It turned out to be perfect training for a future life of audition and rejection. “That’s why I believe in God and the divine. I feel like it was perfectly planned. People talk about rejection in Hollywood. I’m like, ‘You’re outta your f-kin’ mind. Did you ever have someone sic their dog on you at an audition?”
On Donald Trump’s p-ssygrabbing comments: “‘When you’re a star, you could do anything’—the offensive thing to me about that was Trump calling himself a star. It’s like ‘Come on, dude.’ It’s not because I consider myself a star, but if I ever heard someone say that, one of my peers, I’d instantly lose respect for them.”
I actually got drawn in to this interview. It’s not that Pratt is one of my favorite people or anything, but I actually feel like… he might be authentic? His soul was saved in Hawaii, he sees the hand of God in casting choices, he prays before he eats (a meal which he cooked and partially hunted himself). The cover story serves as a primer on how Pratt became a big deal, how he bumbled along for years and then suddenly he was everywhere. Is he really this nice guy who happens to be a Christian and a decent sort of dude? Or is it all a façade? And no, the offensive part of Trump’s comments was not that he called himself a star. The offensive part was when he bragged about sexually assaulting women.
Photos courtesy of Mark Seliger/Vanity Fair.
People of faith get shade because they feel this way. I believe in God; and I believe that all life has a plan. Live your truth.. even if others don’t believe
I think there is a big difference between stating a belief in God that gives you strength to take action and personal comfort…that’s lovely….and sounding a bit ridiculous:
Hey Carrie Fisher’s family! Isn’t God’s plan great?
Hey Syrian refugees! God’s plan! Perfect! Am I right?!
Even if you believe in a divine hand, a certain amount of sensitivity and tact is needed in making such statements as a public figure.
THIS times a million.
It’s like when an entire plan goes down and the one survivor has the balls to say that they survived because God has “bigger plans” for them. How offensive to the families of those who perished.
Yes! I am happy when people have faith to get them through hard times, and it’s fantastic when a miracle happens for them, but then to turn around and claim that they or their loved ones survived because God has a bigger plan for them??? So, that baby who just died in someone’s arms – God didn’t have any plans for that baby just seems… arrogant?
Especially when it comes from people like those 2 kids who were driving 80mph, hung over, at 5 am after a party, and the guy fell asleep and wrapped the car around a tree, yet they survived because the tree was right in the middle. Yeah, so God has plans for irresponsible jerks who jeopardized not just their own life, but the lives of anyone who had to share the road with them, but not for that 5-year-old dying of cancer?
I think that’s the key, Mia.
I also see a lot of religious people (small town) who will complain about the unwed mothers being so irresponsible, and having no morals. But when the pastors teenage daughter got pregnant it was “Oh, what a blessing! It’s God’s plan.” – and I think that is so incredibly ridiculous, and cruel.
I take no issue with someone believing in a higher power, or that there’s some kind of overall plan for certain things. I do take issue with the people who think this, and think that those who are not part of their religion, or their church are of less importance, or that those peoples actions/consequences are all on them when they’re happily using the “well, it’s part of gods plan” schtick.
On the one hand, I believe he’s talking sincerely and not at all TRYING to be ridiculous or egocentric. On the other, I agree with others here that if you parse what he’s saying, even a little bit, it totally falls apart as absolutely self-centered and silly. To be fair, I don’t think it comes from even a slightly bad place, nor do I dislike him because of it (though the animal abandonment stuff HAS made me look at him differently) … It’s just fairly typical self-centered celeb stuff.
When a celeb answers the, ‘How did I make it and so many others don’t’ question? They look and see that there’s talent and hard-work, and they might even credit luck, and/or God, or whatever higher power they ascribe to, if any. But it’s also pretty clear that they genuinely believe — and who could blame them, given the adulation, money, etc? — that there’s something unique and, yeah, better about them. That it was destiny they make it.
I’m not saying I know it wasn’t, but it’s not really any different than a team thanking God for their victory … That doesn’t really take into account the idea that, So, what? … God was punishing all the players on the other team by “making” them lose?
Don’t get me wrong, it’s not like I want to hear people of faith blaming God for their mistakes and failures (e.g. ‘I definitely would have got that part/promotion/field goal if The Big Guy hadn’t been a dick today’), but when you look at it from that opposite perspective the whole “God had a plan for me” thing sounds awfully self-involved. And, yeah, it’s a larger part of the whole Prosperity Gospel thing which, while I certainly don’t condemn faith generally, that concept is 100% selfish, small-minded clap trap that flies in the face of every concept Christianity actually claims it’s based on.
I have a friend whose husband died suddenly of an aneurysm. He was barely 40, quite healthy (both his parents still alive and well, so no history either), they had two small kids and then, with literally no warning, one day he was gone. How she didn’t scratch the eyes out of the many, MANY people who told her “God has a plan” or “God doesn’t give you anything you can’t handle” or something similar in those times I’ll never know. Clearly, she’s a stronger, better person than I, because … Well, yeah, I won’t say how I wanted to reply when I heard people comment on God’s divine wisdom regrading the worst thing she and those kids had ever had to endure. Even when I KNEW they were trying to comfort her and didn’t know what else to say, it still made my blood boil. And, yes, my friend’s faith, if not that precise words from well-meaning idiots, brought her comfort in days and week and months and now, years, after that tragedy and for that I am deeply grateful.
As a Christian, I can say that is not how I view things when I say, “God has a plan.” I study longevity secrets, not because I want to live forever, but because I want the years I have to be full and healthy. I always tell people that I would love to live to 104, but when my time is up, it’s up and that is all in God’s hands.
I could be hit by a truck this afternoon, or suffer a freak accident or have a heart attack like Carrie Fisher. All of our days are numbered. Some of us get more than others.
I was in a Bible study with a woman years ago who had lost her only sibling, a brother who she was very close to. He was hit by a drunk driver and she said she struggled for a long time with that loss. But about a year later, because of that experience, she was able to help her friend who was losing her brother to terminal cancer. Since that time, she has gone on to help hundreds of others through grief counseling so she viewed her loss as an opportunity to help others.
I believe in free will. I also believe that God has a plan and a purpose for all of us if we look for it.
100% agree. I totally understand when people say that they believe god exists because they feel the strength in difficult situations or something, but thinking god planned your whole career while millions of children are raped, murdered, die from preventable diseases or starve seems so self absorbed and narcissistic.
I am a pretty religious person, and come from a very Catholic country, yet I wouldn’t use such rhetoric. I do agree it’s quite insensitive. I very rarely hear such language anywhere.
The way God is discussed in America is very specific, isn’t it? I sometimes watch NBA press conferences and the players mention God so much, it’s quite strange. I mean, here you can see athletes making the sign of the cross and stuff like that, but nowhere near as much. A handball coach recently started talking about God after matches and he was ridiculed in the media.
I don’t know if it’s a cultural thing, or a evangelical thing, but I rarely see it from celebrities outside of the US.
to quote Neil Gaiman’s Death: “You get what everyone gets. You get a lifetime.” It’s what you do with that lifetime that matters, whether you believe that God has a plan or you believe that you control your own destiny.
And you had to attack
I’m pretty religious (Catholic) but this is not the way I would talk about God. All I can do is try to be a good person, love my neighbout and try to do right by other people. If I’m wrong about my beliefs I will still have tried to be the best person I could be.
Im not going to tell other people that their joy, sadness, success and failures are part of God’s plan. If He excists and has a plan it would probably be incomprehensible to us anyway.
I think this is so right! I am not a religious person myself, but also not completly without some faith, or “spirituality”. But if you believe in something, this is exactly what a religion should be: inspire you to be the best person you could possibly be.
I work with teenage kids with various backgrounds and have a lot of talks about their different faiths (or no faiths) and I try to tell them exactly this. I think it is a very lovely and most important message.
I like Chris and people are perfectly entitled to be religious and practice their faith. But I’m afraid any belief in god’s plan for people seems incompatible with – to give just one example – the holocaust. I can’t believe that god intervenes to help people get jobs or win games yet doesn’t do anything to avert that.
🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄 How many eye roll emojis is too many?
I like him in Guardians, a lot I admit. Otherwise? Eh.
I liked him in GOTG too. The rest, not so much.
I’m probably the only one who finds him obnoxious, smug and annoying.
God had other plans for me, he/she doesn’t want me to like Pratt 😀 LOL
Ugh. I feel like vomiting, The most offensive thing about Trump’s pussy-grabbing was that Trump referred to himself as a star?
Also if there’s a God, she doesn’t give two shits about Chris Pratt being a movie star. Ugh……
I’m with you. I have no problem with people finding faith – I even have a little bit of it myself. But there’s a certain type of person that believes God’s plan is to prioritize them, and that’s a particular kind of Christian that I can’t get on board with. And that kind of narcissistic faith is exemplified in a negligent attitude towards others, exhibit A being the fact that he can’t relate Trump’s p-grabbing comments to anyone other than the men involved. The fact that he doesn’t even get that there are consequences for anything other than him or Trump speaks volumes. That’s the kind of piety that doesn’t embody Christian values, IMO.
Exactly, T.Fanty. Very well said.
This. Self-centered and -absorbed Christianity. And his comments about Trump rub me absolutely the wrong way. Still think he’s a c*ck sorry not sorry.
Totally agree.
Very well put and much more succinctly clarifies my thoughts. I don’t dislike, or want to mock, genuine religious faith of any stripe, but find it hard not to eye-roll, at the very least, NARCISSISM dressed up as FAITH.
As in: ‘I believe I’m rich/famous/successful because I’m just better than you’ … Is something (almost) no one would say out loud, because it’s rude and off-putting.
But people can, and do, say: ‘God is responsible for my wealth and/or success. He had a plan for me.’ It’s like, ‘Dude, I’m not saying I’m special, GOD is.’ If anyone notes that’s kind of a dick-ish thing to say, for all the reasons already enumerated here, they’re, “attacking people of faith.”
EXACTLY. I don’t belong to any organized religion myself, but I don’t have any problems with it as long as people accept that whatever they believe is between them and God, the operative word being: BELIEVE. You don’t KNOW. To me, that’s the essential difference between a religion and a destructive cult. Once you lose your respect for anybody but the people who believe the same things you do, you’re in trouble. It becomes Us versus Them.
God is either there for everyone, or no-one. When “religion” becomes just another fig leave to cover your narcissism, you lose me, big time.
I can’t be the only one who doesn’t see what Hollywood sees in him. He’s not that great looking. His acting is mediocre. He’s only relevant because of his two franchises. He’s not this big movie star Hollywood is trying to make him out to be where people are going to the movies to watch him specifically. His last two non franchise films didn’t do well at the box office. And when he talks, he just sounds so full of himself. Can someone help me out, please.
Yeah, he’s just a dull braggart who got lucky.
I feel the same.
Yep. He may be in blockbuster movies but he isn’t the one selling tickets. I doubt too many people are sitting home saying “I have to go see the new Chris Pratt movie” These franchise movies sell the tickets, not the actors. He probably comes cheap. I find the dude dull and forgetable
Groot was the best part of Guardians and I wish the dinosaurs had eaten him in Jurassic World.
“I wish the dinosaurs had eaten him in Jurassic World.”
This literally made me spit my tea!
Interestingly, I loved him on Parks and Rec, but find him less attractive now that he lost weight. And even more so now that he opened his mouth to deliver a line that was not written by someone else.
ME TOO!
I loved Andy Dwyer. I always felt like Andy and April were like a blown up caricature of my husband and I. Not saying my husband was a mess of a man-child like Andy; but there definitely were a lot of times where I could see him saying/doing something Andy did because he’s a sweet goofball kind of guy. I also found him a lot cuter when he was heavier.
But outside of that, I haven’t really liked him. I watched Guardian’s of the Galaxy a week or two ago, and was super underwhelmed. Groot and Rocket were the only parts I ended up really enjoying. And the more I hear about Chris, the less I like him.
You’re so not the only one, Sam. I’m hereby adding my voice to the choir.
I guess gods plan also involved abadoning his pets…
Seriously. What a good Christian *eyeroll*
Probably the only one who would have been on Noah’s Ark then, pets not allowed on board lol
Nah.
LOL
I was going to comment on “the offensive thing to me about that was Trump calling himself a star” but then I saw y’all already did.
If his career didn’t go so well, would he also attribute that to the divine?
No, that would be the fault of evil humans who serve the Devil and try to stop God’s work.
Ah, I see. Thanks heaps!
No comment on the dog they abandoned?
Well this interview would have been conducted before that.
Before they got caught you mean? Because that animal had been on the streets starving for a while.
So all the other talented actors who have struggled for years to make a career for themselves must be hated by God. How sad for them.
Come on, dude, this wasn’t some divine intervention; you got lucky is all.
This interview solidified my dislike.
He’s such a standard chad bro stereotype.
‘I like hunting and praying and killing varmints and I won’t apologize har har har.’
It is real, because he’s a real Chad. People are complicated, so they can be semi charming and have decent points and still be dunces.
It’s not sad at all for them, Kitten. There is no need to feel sorry for them. It totally is their own fault. Unlike Mr. Chris Pratt, they don’t believe enough, otherwise God would totally be taking care of them, emiright? *eye roll*
As I wrote in another comment: This is what happens when your so-called religion is just a welcome fig leave to put on your narcissism.
I can’t to see how the comment section turns this interview into someone so they can be outraged….
Because people don’t generally take kindly to animal abuse. Not something we’re quick to forgive and forget.
I don’t need to “turn” his comments into anything. They speak-quite eloquently-for him. And show that he’s an ass.
EXACTLY Suzanne!
I was a huge fan of his but his comments lately make it hard for me to look at him. Plus, all of this God talk and posting bible verses on his social media are so lame to me. I have no control over losing respect for people like him and his beliefs. It makes him look like a ninny not a man. Those comments about Trump are so stupid. He’s more offended that Trump called himself a star and not about saying he can get away with sexually assaulting women? Chris is not very bright.
What I’ve seen mostly on social media from him lately is a lot of frantically retweeting people who enjoyed Passengers, something he’s never done much of with his other (far more successful) films. I definitely get the vibe he’s seriously worried about how poorly this big budget movie with his name on it is doing. Which, to be fair, is his job, so I don’t blame him, but there is a whiff of desperation there, for sure.
Honestly, though, my gut says this flop hurts Lawrence more than Pratt, because Pratt has Guardians 2 coming out soon(ish) and I’d bet it will be a big hit, because Marvel are the masters and this has the same team from Guardians 1, so all will be quickly forgiven. Whereas Lawrence no longer has high-earning franchise films to reinforce her star “power.”
Lawrence will be fine and have a better career than him. while they both say offensive stuff and are popular for their annoying personalities she actually has talent. not as much as the hype would tell you but no one is as good as the hype around them. the oscar will carry her for a while. lots of directors love her, too.
it would be good to disappear for a bit and work good but small movies so the public is not constantly confronted with her. this tour almost made people turn against her.
Carrey said, “There’s going to be a point in life where you’re going to have to prove that your family is more important to you than show business.”
Wait, where exactly has Jim Carrey ever put his family first? Twice divorced, hooked up with Jenny McCarthy and became an anti-vax crank, and let’s not even get into the mess with his last girlfriend.
Yeah, I was thinking that did seem especially tone-deaf to name-check Jim Carrey, whose last girlfriend committed suicide and aren’t the parents suing, claiming Jim gave her the drugs to do so? (And that he also gave her STDs.)
Not to mention I’m sure Carrey’s “break” has exactly been a “choice.” He hasn’t had a hit in forever (not that he exactly needs the money, or shouldn’t anyway, given when he made in his heyday), and even if you disregard the sordid tabloid spectacle of his most recent relationship, he’s hardly known for his strong “family” commitments; two divorces, a failed engagement and he was long estranged from his only biological child, and Jenny McCarthy has confirmed he’s no longer in her son’s life, despite years as acting his defacto stepdad.
So, umm, yeah, Chris, perhaps not your model as either a movie star or a family man. 🙄
THANK YOU. I was coming down here specifically to point out this element. Jim Carrey is legit THE WORST example of a man who has EVER put his family before career and/or fame. WHAT! Consider the released texts with poor Carolina…they’re discussing honoring their deceased parents…and mid conversation, he starts coming on to her? Jim Carrey is the GROSSEST of the gross.
So, the reason he believes in God is because God made him a movie star. What a narcissistic tw*t. I recently discovered the word Omnism, which I’ve found describes my faith to a T. But if I believed in the Anglican type of God I think he’s referring to, maybe it would be because the beauty of the cosmos is so overwhelming, or because of the sheer kindness and goodness of some people, or because of cats.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not knocking his belief in God. I’m knocking his reasoning behind it, because to me it comes off as so selfish and shallow.
And I can’t with the Donald Trump comments. There’s not much to say except that it clearly speaks to his douche bro character and he f*ck right off with that.
Just googled “Omnism”, amazing term! Thank you!
I studied theology as a secondary subject, how did i never pick that up!?
There is an opening to be a red/flyover-state movie star…I mean, you have Mark Wahlberg, but he’s not the young hot guy anymore. Plus, Pratt’s wife is on a CBS sitcom so that adds to it.
So basically he’s a Trump-supporter?
I’m totally surprised that he wouldn’t be offended by the pussy-grabbing comment. Shocked, I tell you, just shocked!
There’s a video of him being asked by a paparazzi about the election and he didn’t seem very pro-Trump but he also wasn’t pro-Hillary. Which means he somehow thought them to be equally bad and they just weren’t, and those people annoyed me the most because they ended up either not voting or throwing away their vote on a third party. I will be mad at them for the next four years.
Aha, this was my first thought too. Oh so he supports Trump. Making a joke out of how the offensive part was only that Trump thinks he’s equal to Pratt? He minimises it.
So basically prosperity gospel twiddle twaddle.
Gross.
Also, no the most offensive thing about that particular Rump statement is him bragging about sexually assaulting women, full stop.
Why is God worried about your career when people are starving, getting raped, and/or being murdered?
God seems mainly busy with giving people showbusiness awards (“I want to thank god”) and planning the careers of midly talented actors. “Chris is doing fine, i’ll make him do a crappy scifi movie”
Don’t forget the help God gives in scoring touchdowns and hitting homeruns.
“the offensive thing to me about that was Trump calling himself a star”…so not the sexual assault? Oh Chris. Please stop talking.
To each their own in terms of religious or spiritual beliefs, but I’ve always found it’s easy for people to claim they are blessed when everything is going well for them.
The more he talks, the less I like him. Just stfu dude.
Just staaahhhpp.
Because he used to be chubby, I would have never guessed he was a football player in high school. I guess now it makes more sense how he was able to quickly put himself into shape.
I don’t really get why he’s a movie star though. He’s even blander than Sam Worthington.
It also explains his personality. I feel like, as a former fat kid, I can spot fellow former fat kids by their personality. He doesn’t have that, you can see he only gained weight as an adult.
didnt he only get it for the role? i think i remember reading that he was only cast as the douchebag and when he got chubby they cast him as the lovable doofus. then he lost it all again.
What a delusional moron. I have no doubt that he will in fact say something career ending one day.
I can’t believe that out of all of the Marvel actors he’s the one that is having the success when he isn’t that good at acting. Someone like Chadwick Boseman is much more talented than he is .
Ugh, Ugh Ugh. I know people in real life who invoke this “personal Jesus”. We’re so blessed cause we bought a huge new house! God is good. I have one word for them Aleppo. These are also people who voted for Trump so…
Wanna bet Pratt did too??
People in Aleppo also have faith in God. Bad things happening to them does not sway the faith of people who are religious or believe in God. I dislike the Chris Pratt “I am blessed therefore my path was planned by God” way of thinking, but to write off faith by bringing up the victims of a war in Aleppo, a very religious city of both Muslims and Christians, is silly.
Idk, he just never comes across as genuine to me
I liked the interview, but then I grew up around people who were convinced God had a plan for them, so that kind of talk doesn’t bother me. I think he’s a better actor than most want to give him credit for, but I still don’t like looking at pictures of him now. I know I’ve said this before, but since the weight loss, his serious pictures all have the male version of resting b*tch face.
Also, he and his wife should never be able to own pets again. Ever.
I liked what Chris Pratt says about his belief in God and his feeling on a perfectly planned career. Everyone should have a faith system. Whether you are Buddhism or Atheism, there should be some belief in good that exist on this earth. However, God did not cause wrong doing on his earth, why would he? God is Love. I am a Christian Existentialist and I belief the real reason why some much heartache, misery and tragedy happened in this world is the power of man. Did God help destroy 5 or more million people in WW 2? No, the fault was solely on Adolf Hitler and his other sociopaths like Goring, Himmler, Goebbels etc. Therefore, I believe you take the good with the bad. Bad things do happen, when man have disregard with God’s love or think they love God but don’t practice what it is preached , the wrong doings is based solely on man. All I have to say is, if you willing let God in your life and follow Jesus practices, then you will accept that good and bad things will happen and you learn to deal with them.
Atheism is not a faith. It’s the absence of a belief in a divine being.
It’s like concluding that the absence of evidence is evidence.
Sorry but this is totally wrong “Everyone should have a faith system.” I don’t have a faith system so I’m likely to become Hitler?
Absurd reasoning.
Let people live how they choose to.
I met him last month, and he was pretty nice. He took extra time to speak to my cousin that’s autistic. He signed an autograph for me under the name of Burt Maclan, so I extra love him now for that. He spent hours talking to people, and taking pictures on the Marine Base. He didn’t have to, but he did. He spent extra time talking to all the children. People may hate him here, but he greatly impressed the milliatary community. He went above and beyond what other celebrities do when they visit the base. He’s a good guy in my book.
I heard the same about Mark Whalberg. He is supposed to be suplper nice, but comes across as a douche in interviews.
Appreciate the story (sincerely) and do think it speaks well. As part of an active duty military family, we’ve met our share of celebs at various events/meet and greets and some seem genuinely interested and others seem to be going through the motions of “supporting the troops,” simply because it’s good PR.
Mark Wahlberg actually spent an insanely long amount of time — close to 30 minutes — talking to my dad and brother at an event for his movie, Lone Survivor, and as someone who was wrestling with my toddler nephew off to one side, waiting to leave, I can attest that it was him keeping them engaged, not the other way around.
Hugh Jackman is another that signed every autograph, listened to every story and engaged with every kid on the base, including endlessly making Wolverine faces for photos … Even though that wasn’t the movie he was promoting.
And my dad, a pilot, loves to tell the story of when Bruce Willis came to their private, on-base bar and drank with them well into the wee hours.
Chris gives off a nice guy vibes to me also. Speaking of celeb encounters, finally got to meet Rogue One actor Diego Luna the other day. I don’t know about his reputation and I haven’t seen the latest SW yet but he is the sweetest guy. He took time signing memorabilias from both fans and autograph smugglers. He even took the selfies himself. You think by now Disney would have provided a security detail for this man but he was just there all alone without any protection from rabid fans. And yeah, God favored Diego Luna in the looks department too. It was like God personally instructed Michelangelo to scupt his face. He was unbelievably good looking.
Pratt would’ve made an excellent Puritan. “I’m blessed with outward success, so I must be one of the saved!”
I love this idea of god as some sort of ATM machine!
I guess God is bringing Chris back to humility with the bomb of “Passengers”.
I wonder if God told him and his wife to abandon their pets? He really seems quite intolerable, not because of his faith, but because he’s a jerk. And really, why ask celebrities about politics? Some of them are very talented (I don’t think Pratt is), but their only role in our lives is to entertain us via their acting etc. skills.
Oh ok, that’s nice Chris. You’re cute. Maybe you should also look into how being a middle class white male played a role in your rapid upward mobility. Thanks. #checkyoprivilege
This guy makes me twitch. He just seems so professionally and consciously charming. It’s all so fake.
There’s something very arrogant about claiming that “God” gives a fuck about your Hollywood career while children die of starvation everyday.
I used to love him on Parks and Rec but he changed when he became a big star. I feel like he’s not a great husband. I won’t see his movies and I can’t even watch him on talk shows. I can’t even stand to look at a photo of him.
Chris Pratt: Honey, you’re a cutie. But you are definitely dumb as a door.
Everything I’ve enjoyed about the blockbuster hit movies which he happened to appear in had very little to do with him–GOTG has great dialogue and he made me laugh, but those lines didn’t have to be delivered by him.
I feel like it’s a momentum thing–he happened to get cast, and it did well but would have done just as well with any one of ten other guys, so he keeps getting cast. He does work hard to promote the movies he is in, so that’s a plus on the slate when the studios are considering him. And I agree with whomever said he probably isn’t getting that astronomical of a paycheck.
But this: “the offensive thing to me about that was Trump calling himself a star” and the attitude towards animals, plus his immense sense of privilege dressed up in “but I’m a Christian so God is EXTRA good to me!” humility, has just gotten to be too much for me.
During my two tours in Iraq, EVERY celebrity who showed up except the Dallas Cheerleaders (they have weird ‘rules’) gave at least as much of themselves as has been described here about him, so that doesn’t elevate him to a higher place in my book.
I’ll see GOTG 2 because he is just a cog and I am Marvel ride-or-die, but otherwise will take off a LOT of likely-to-see points for movies if he is in them. (And creepy ‘consent is meaningless’ Passengers is completely off the table.)
I feel we never talked deeply about what a horrible example it is to claim Jim Carrey as an example of worth (also, did we EVER discuss Jim Carrey’s reveal as an seemingly awful textmaniplative dude who gave his girlfriend multiple STD’s, who later killed herself, possibly with drugs under his name?!?) therefore I’m putting Chris Pratt on the often-funny-interview/badpet person list with a narrow *side eye*
I find that the more he opens his mouth the less I like him. I wish he’d shut the h3ll up until after Guardians of the Galaxy Part II opens in theaters.