Chris Pratt almost gave up on Marvel role

Can you think about a world with out Chris Pratt because the star of Guardians of the Galaxy? Well, it almost occurred.

On April 27, Pratt advised Jimmy Kimmel that he bombed his Marvel auditions so badly, he almost gave up on being in a Marvel movie fully.

As a visitor on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Pratt revealed, “I auditioned for Thor, but not even to be Thor – but to be one of the sidekick guys, and I didn’t get a callback.”

“Usually they give you a little bit of feedback, and I remember the casting director goes, ‘Wow. You really made a big choice there,'” he added. “Which is code for like, ‘Hey, dial back the acting there, guy.’”

He shared the failure “bought to the purpose the place I used to be by no means gonna audition for Marvel once more.”

“I used to be like, ‘This is silly, I’m by no means gonna be in a Marvel film,'” he admitted.

At the time, he was auditioning for “something that got here out that wanted a man that even remotely appeared like me.”

“I’d both submit a tape and they might say ‘No, we don’t have to see him,’ or I’d get there and see them, they’d go, ‘No, that’s the final time we have to see you,'” he said.

Luckily, Pratt eventually booked his Guardians of the Galaxy role and the rest is history. But his transformation from NBC’s Parks and Recreation to Guardians movie star didn’t come easily.

In 2018, Pratt told Men’s Health, “I most likely misplaced about 35 kilos in six weeks. I ran 5 – 6 miles a day. I ate leafy inexperienced salads and protein shakes. I reduce out all alcohol. Trim, trim, trim.”

Pratt will wrap his Guardians role with the upcoming film, Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 3.

“Don’t do any emotional preparation, just go see it, and you’ll see why people were moved,” Pratt advised the audience during Marvel’s San Diego Comic-Con panel in June 2022 of the final movie. “It’s an emotional second for us, actually as actors who have been within the piece, watching it for the primary time and being reminded of every little thing we did over the previous year-plus making the film. And being out in Hall H in entrance of all these followers [for] the primary time in years and understanding that that is the tip of this trilogy. It’s all emotional.”