ladies and gentlemen our first guest speaking of Blockbusters and people in Big Time movies
he stars in the highly anticipated summer blockbuster film Guardians of the Galaxy it
opens uh listen to this and by the way if you're looking for a 3D holy cow you can't you can't do
any better than this it's a 3D it's almost 4D now that was my old apartment yeah uh it's also
in IMAX ladies and Gentlemen please welcome the Charming The Talented Chris Pratt how you doing
oh my God whoa
good for you you get that wherever you go now I guess right yes yes
uh yes I saw you in uh the Parks and Recreation I loved you in Parks and
Recreation thank you and then and then I saw you in uh oh thank you thank you
so in Zero Dark Thirty or was it 30 dark zero yeah yes Zero Dark
Thirty Zero Dark Thirty and the thing that impressed me in in both cases regardless
irrespective of the material uh you're sort of a natural goofball personality
we all we always get a taste of that and it's a tremendous asset congratulations on that thank you
thank you David that's very nice yeah uh well that's going away that's going away no no no
I'm taking myself 50 seriously from now on so I'm going away sorry about that so but now tell
me in this movie Guardians of the Galaxy yeah uh like a lot of guys they could put a put in there
and and you would be disappointed in their performance because you think oh no wait a
minute it's just a stooge but with you you're a multi-dimensional human being and we enjoy that
in the in the movie hey yeah you know what it is yes yeah I do oh well I'm also a bit of a stooge
but a multi-dimensional stooge I I appreciate that but I did uh uh and here's my guess and I didn't
know this I you seem like a guy who takes care of himself pretty well when I saw you in the movie
I am not that is is that am I wrong about that yes for almost my entire life that has
not been the case but for this movie I did have to take care of myself for a while but
uh that's quickly going to go away but I'm telling you uh the other impressive thing
besides the 3D was you and is it the 3D or is it you I mean here you are and I thought oh wait a
minute am I it must be Hercules I'm in the wrong theater I mean what was that how did you do that
um well there's some airbrushing and uh a lot of a lot of sit-ups and and sort of starving yourself
uh knowing that you had a shirtless scene coming up yeah did you did you have to get a trainer to
do this yes I yeah I had a whole I had a whole team of trainers and uh a deadline every week
where they would come over and and like fit me for something they'll be like oh we need to see what
uh Peter Quill's watch looks like let's put that on why don't we make it a whole body shot Chris
I'm like uh so they might have been concerned about well is the guy going to be in shape yeah
that was when I auditioned for the role James Gunn the director and I just we really hit it off he
felt like I was right for the role but I think the biggest thing I had to do was try to convince them
that I could get there physically so a big part of it really was just trying to capture the aesthetic
of a comic book hero was yes and then and those guys that's over the top but then let me ask you
can we do some numbers on this and you don't have to do this yeah you can numbers are my numbers are
my thing man basically all right and if you get it if you get upset you can get a cab that's fine too
well before you committed to the film what did you weigh 290 pounds he didn't wait you didn't weigh
there's nobody you didn't weigh the 290 Pounds you didn't weigh 200 I waited 390 pounds 390 pounds
I was 10 pounds below 500 pounds that's almost one and a quarter of a ton that's right
surprising it's a really important even called you in for a reading I was surprised
okay so now cameras are rolling what do you weigh now whether the cameras are rolling
um uh when the cameras are rolling I was about uh uh 113 pounds
it's amazing and four pounds of that was spray tan spray tan that I believe this is um this is great
because you're going to get the people who who like the the comic book uh Guardians of the Galaxy
and then you're going to get people uh who want to come and see you and uh it's uh very satisfying
I'll just and I'll stop talking about it because I don't want you you don't you don't have to okay
you could go you could go into some more specifics and stuff all right uh the uh
have you seen the movie no no I don't know yeah uh I have seen it I saw it for the first time
about two weeks ago and with a movie like this where you have two of the characters are animated
and in every world has at least some element of CG I I kind of didn't know if it was going to be
good or not I just I remember having a hunch that we were doing something special when we shot it a
year ago but I walked into the theater really pretty nervous and I've been having all these
nightmares that I was going to hate the movie but I saw it for the first time two weeks ago
and I really really loved it have you seen it in IMAX I have not seen an IMAX that's gonna be
that that would kill you that would cost people to not go back from New York that would people they
just say I'm staying here but you talk about the two animated characters one's a tree yes
and one's a raccoon kit now can I say that or is that secret um well it's not it's not it's
not secret anymore yeah I guess and the and the tree keeps saying I am gorp or whatever
he is what's his name uh gorp gorp I am and uh yeah it's Groot he's right that's right
but it's yeah he's this like giant sentient tree being and uh voiced uh beautifully by
Vin Diesel oh that's that's exactly right yes you're exactly right about that yeah
now uh if your son was a little older you could probably take him to this movie this
would make him go crazy to see this in the 3D and somebody yeah now it would now
literally make him go crazy yeah uh he's two he'll be two next month and uh yes thank you
he's oh he's just he's uh you know he's just he's just the best and to think one day he is going to
be able to talk about his daddy is this character in this movie it's really kind of nice and and uh
yes he's a little young for it now but you know in a few years two years uh my son uh loved cranes
crane what is it with cranes I don't know cranes um he loves backhoes and excavators
anything that's like you can't fight the boy in this boy and then recently because we're running
like you run out of crane videos and he'll get a little fussy especially when I'm babysitting
and I obviously Resort right to videos um uh I'm not gonna read to him am I right and
I'm not gonna have a reader I understand I know where are you coming
um but recently the most recent development was monster trucks he's gone crazy for monster trucks
and I realize I've reinvigorated my own passion for monster trucks because yeah everyone thinks
yeah monster trucks but they are freaking awesome like do yourself a favor just Google Gravedigger
and and there's like this 20 minute video me and Jack will watch this thing and his mom will come
in and be like you watching that Gravedigger video like I'm a quick look at it this is just
it jumped the bus it jumped over a bus it's a truck that's crazy my son and I used to watch
uh some kind of a video where a guy collected Scrap Iron and Steel and then took it to the
crusher yeah and we would watch that over and over and over again and you think honestly what
how does this how does this happen it's what boys do they love it yeah if you can't fight
it yeah oh you can't just fight it yeah and then and then if you had a little girl you'd probably
be having tea parties yeah probably yeah you never know they yeah they'll gravitate towards
Well Jack will do this too but like little babies he loves other babies just go up to the baby and
just like touch the baby's face like oh don't do that it's a stranger it's a stranger Jack don't
touch it well it sounds like you're having a lot of fun as a family yeah and who knows uh maybe
Jack will have a little sister and then he'll be attending tea parties and there'll be fairy suits
and princesses yes and that kind of thing all over the house oh man I would I hope so I would love
that I think I think I would love that let's uh uh talk about this moving uh it's uh the Guardians
of the Galaxy they're chasing somebody as an orb we don't know if the orb is good or bad we just
got to get it in the right hands yes uh John C Reilly is in the John C Reilly is in the film
and uh we have a clip here now you tell people what we're going to see well this is basically
um my character Peter Quill is is saving Gamora this green-skinned deadly and sexy Assassin from
uh being killed by Drax the Destroyer and so I'm trying to convince him I'm trying to sort
of like broker and negotiate this situation so that uh he doesn't kill her because I need her
because she knows where to sell this thing and this is from the original Dickens novel yeah
that's right they did they had to change it for legal reasons uh it's going to be an enormous
hit it opens August 1st and here we go let's take a look at the clip from Guardians of the Galaxy
ah you're welcome and that's and and when you see that in IMAX yeah
it'll blow your mind I know I know I know you're already thinking oh
my God but he's right yeah add that 3D at IMAX Katie bar the door yeah
you want to show him the realm no I think that's fine just watch TV the trailer's all over the
place we don't have to watch it let's talk more okay all right well listen it's a great pleasure
to see you again oh and you're working on another a big movie like this yeah uh yeah another movie
uh I just wrapped called uh Jurassic world which oh my goodness yeah you're gonna well there you go
it's one one giant movie to another giant movie and and congratulations I couldn't be
happier for you thank you so much Chris Pratt ladies and gentlemen Guardians of the Galaxy