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Chris Pratt Reflecting on his trajectory from sitcom clown to action hero, he revealed that he believes he “represents the underdog on his way to success.”
He also said he gained 30 to 40 pounds while playing Andy Dwyer. parks and recreation, When he noticed he had gained weight, his laughter increased.
“I slowly realized that I was getting funnier and fatter and sweatier and I was getting more and more laughs, and that’s when — while I was still trying to figure out my career and pay the bills — I thought, ‘Maybe this is the niche, maybe this is how I get paid to play this guy,'” Miracle said the actor.
Although Pratt auditioned for leading roles at the beginning of his career, he found success playing deadbeat boyfriends in films including Bride Wars and Jennifer’s body (Both 2009).
he told independent He never thought his career would reach this stage. “Early on in my career, that’s what I wanted, but I couldn’t get these types of roles,” the actor said. Stars in new thriller mercyexplain.
“I could really only get smaller roles, and if I was in good shape, the character I auditioned for was ‘boyfriend’ — and the guy in the movie was like, ‘Hey, man, welcome to The OC,’ and then I got kicked ass and the audience was like, ‘Yeah! Fuck that guy! I hate him.'” Those were the roles I got. “
He said things seemed destined to stay on the same track after he won the role of the lovable goofball. Andy Dwyer at parks and recreationthe character is written exactly like the characters he played before.
“I was a guest star who was supposed to be eliminated,” he said, but the producers liked Pratt’s performance so much that they wrote him into the main cast. Platt quickly discovered that the more he got into his character’s antics, the more popular he became.
This is the role he won between seasons parks and recreation ——Bennett Miller’s baseball drama Moneyball(2011) and Kathryn Bigelow’s political thriller zero dark thirty (2012)—which helped him begin to transcend the roles he was familiar with.
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“Nobody was asking, ‘What is that guy doing there?’ It felt like it worked, and in that moment, I thought, ‘Maybe now I have a little bit of experience; maybe I’ve got some experience. There’s an avenue to go after this thing. So I probably had more confidence in myself after that.”
when his mercy Co-star Rebecca Ferguson chimed in: “You don’t represent the losers who make it big,” to which Pratt exclaimed: “No, I guess I do!”
a year ago parks and recreation After it ended, Pratt underwent a physical transformation after landing the role of wisecracking rogue Peter “Star-Lord” Quill in James Gunn’s Marvel blockbuster Guardians of the Galaxy.
He appeared in a total of three “Guardians of the Galaxy” movies and two “Avengers” movies, and cemented his status as an action hero with a starring role in “The Avengers.” jurassic world 2015.