![]() Because other people look just like him, and they’re like, ’Why is this guy not crippled with self-doubt? Fuck, that’s awesome. I mean, I was never as big as Chris Farley, but you look at Chris Farley-that’s what made him so magical. "I also understood that there was value to it-my comedic nature understood the irony of a super-happy fat sweaty guy who is completely confident and accepting of who he was. "I’m sure I was the first guy in line to buy that line of bullshit," he says now. But he may just have been fooling us and fooling himself at the same time. If you read or watch the interviews Chris Pratt did in the comedy years, he played the part of the happy plump man to perfection. He’s had a quick shower and has lit a cigar-some combination of late-morning pleasure and character prep for his next movie, The Magnificent Seven. That was my bread and butter for a long time," he says. The boyfriend of the girl who you hope ends up with the guy you like. "Typically, I was getting typecast as the bad boyfriend. When he first auditioned for movies in his early twenties he would try out for all kinds of roles, but he soon fell into the first of the two stereotypical parts that would fill up his next decade. Pratt’s road here, to this career and this body, has been unlikely and meandering. ![]() In other words, the one who has undergone a parallel physical and professional transformation without obvious precedent in Hollywood. This is the sort of thing you might expect from the new Chris Pratt-the one who posts six-pack selfies on Instagram, the one whose last movie, Guardians of the Galaxy, grossed nearly $800 million worldwide and re-invented him from a bumbling, chubby sitcom sidekick into everyone’s favorite new movie star (a status he hopes to bolster with this month’s Jurassic World). He is getting in shape for three forthcoming movies and also preparing for a triathlon in a few weeks’ time, something he was talked into by a good friend, a Navy Seal whom he met while making Zero Dark Thirty. ![]() When I arrive at the house in the Hollywood Hills that Chris Pratt shares with his wife, the comic actress Anna Faris, and their 2 1/2-year-old son, Jack, Pratt has just returned from a long early-morning bike ride.
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