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The Marvel index: Pratt as Peter Quill in Guardians Of The Galaxy. Pratt posted a photo to Instagram of himself looking like an absolute Adonis, and the internet shook. But then, abruptly it seemed, the funny fat guy somehow landed the lead in Guardians Of The Galaxy.
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He was, it seemed, destined to be a professional doofus. Pratt got happy and fat, acknowledging that being big made the character more likable. Andy was due to be a guest character, the man who sued the council after falling in a pit, but Pratt improvised his way into favour, his charisma transforming a temporary part into a permanent star turn.
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One such role came up for the first series of Parks And Recreation. He decided that he’d be OK making a living out of supporting roles. As for Avatar, he was told he just didn’t have “that thing, that ‘it’ factor”.ĭiscouraged, Pratt resigned himself to the fact that he didn’t have what it took. At GI Joe, he says, the director’s eyes glazed over when he walked in.
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After a while he decided to go for big movie gigs but met with disappointment.
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It was then that his career kicked off: recurring roles in TV shows (including The OC), some bit parts in films. She gave him $700 for the role he used the cash to buy a car to drive to auditions. He told her he was an actor too, she told him he was cute, and that she needed someone for a part in a horror film she was directing in five days’ time (the not entirely memorable Cursed Part 3). The film team review Jurassic World GuardianĪt Bubba Gump, he recognised a customer: Rae Dawn Chong, an actor who had appeared in 80s hits Commando and The Color Purple. He wanted to act but did little about it. As a youth he dabbled in stand-up comedy and did a spot of stripping (once for a friend’s grandmother) before – at the age of 19 – moving to Maui for a year, living in a van and waiting tables at Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. Pratt’s mother worked in a supermarket, his father was a gold miner. His breakthrough cinematic roles – Guardians, Jurassic World and playing a Navy Seal in Zero Dark Thirty – all share a resourcefulness that came naturally to a boy raised “dirt poor” in the Washington State town of Lake Stevens (population: 30,000). It’s an opportunity for me to explore what parts of me are animal and what parts of me are human.”
But the remorse, emotion and respect I feel, and the closeness to God that I feel when I’m out there, is my humanity. “The thing inside me that drives me to go out and hunt is very animal. “I have a great deal of respect for the animals that I kill,” he says, “and I feel remorse and all of the emotions that come with it.” As a non-hunter, I ask him to explain how choosing to kill something and then feeling remorse about it fits together. The thing inside me that drives me to go out and hunt is very animal Chris Pratt That’s something that Owen and I have in common.” He says this respect comes from his experience as a recreational hunter. Jurassic World has a theme that emphasises respect for nature, and the perils that befall those who don’t, and Pratt relates. Pratt plays Owen Grady, a raptor researcher who works at a behavioural facility at the edge of the park. “It was a big part of my childhood: 13 years old, my first event movie, it was a big fuckin’ deal to me as a kid.” “I was a massive fan, it’s not just lipservice to promote the movie,” he says. “They didn’t feel like they needed to blow their wad in the trailers.” There’s not an ounce of cynicism in his enthusiasm. The film is funnier, scarier and more idiosyncratic than its trailers indicated the studio, Universal, was confident enough to hold back, says Pratt. The story begins with the park open to visitors, teeming with them in fact, and wouldn’t you know it, on the very day we drop in, one of the big beasties breaks out, precipitating catastrophe. He does seem authentically jazzed about people seeing the dino-sequel and, to be fair, the film is a blast.
On the sofa he’s a keen, attentive interviewee, if a little more intense than you might expect. In London on a Jurassic World charm offensive, he’s finely turned out in shirt, jeans and – there’s no other way to describe it – tweed waistcoat.
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