Chris Pratt almost gave up on Marvel after a bad Thor audition
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Chris Pratt nearly gave up on Marvel after a string o🐈f failed auditions.
"I auditioned for Thor, but not even to be Thor – but to be one of the si🥃dekick guys, and I didn’t get a callback," Pratt said during a recent appearance on . "Usually they give you a little bit of feedback, and I remember the casting director goes, 'Wow. You really made a big choice there.' Which is code for like, ‘Hey, dial back the acting there, guy.'"
Pratt spent seven seasons on NBC's popular Amy Poehler-led sitcom Parks and Recreation, in which he played Andy Dwyer – boyfriend and eventual husband to Aubrey Plaza's April Ludgate. The actor wrapped up in filming in 2014, the same year he was cast as Peter Quill aka Star-Lord in 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Guardians of the Galaxy.
"I mean [I auditioned for] all of them. Anything that came out that needed a guy that even remotely looked like me, I auditioned for in some way or another. And I would either submit a tape and they would say 'No, we don’t need to see him,' or I would get there and see them, they’d go, 'No, that’s the l💯ast time we need to see you,'" Pratt continued. "It got to the point where I was never gonna audition for Marvel agai✨n. I was like, 'This is stupid, I’m never gonna be in a Marvel movie.'"
Pratt would go on to play Star-Lord in all three Guardians movies - four if you include the Christmas Special- and made cameos in other Marvel movies including 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Thor: Love and Thunder.
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 hits theaters on May 5. For more, check out our list of all the exciting 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:upcoming films in 2023 and beyond.
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