The actor recalled the difficult period spent during the filming of the series and his transition to hero from action films for cinema
Chris Pratt stated that the role of the adorable buffoon Andy Dwyer in Parks and Recreation He arrived in a “period of my life in which I drank and ate a lot“.
In a recent episode of Bill Maher’s Podcast Club, the actor spoke of his relationship with food during his career. Before obtaining the role in Parks and RecPratt stressed that he had also stopped training. As a result, his job opportunities had started to decrease.
When he joined the cast of the sit-com, Pratt said he have never seen each other so fatbut to have been more fun than ever at that time. As a result, he decided to still increase his weight for the role.
Chris Pratt has endangered his health for the role
“I went to the executive producer, Mike Schur, and I said to him: ‘Two things. One, I’m gaining weight. Two, I want to fatten even more“, said Pratt.”And he replied: ‘excellent’. And so I continued to push. I asked myself: ‘How much can I fatterate?’. It has become a challenge. I ate four hamburgers per meal. I was really impressing everyone and I was really immersing myself in this super indulgent season of my life“.
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The actor who then became a star of the films action thanks to the sagas of Guardians of the galaxy e Jurassic Worldsaid that, on the one hand, it was “fantastic” be able to eat everything he wanted at that time, but on the other, after a while He also felt “very bad”.
Pratt then underwent a very advertised physical transformation when he assumed the main role of Peter Quill, aka Star-Lord, in James Gunn’s films for Marvel Studios. He trained for the part while reciting in Parks and Recreation. There weight loss It was explained at the beginning of the sixth season with the fact that Andy had stopped drinking beer.
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In the meantime, Pratt has said that eating so much today for him is “boring”, since mainly consumes vegetables, chicken and riceand compared the moment of meals to “stop at the service station“And put the minimum indispensable in the tank.
“But in the meantime, which is a much higher percentage of the day, I feel quite well“, he explained.”I feel like I was not assimilating lousy foods, sugars and all that stuff there“.
