Crush Of The Day: Chris Pratt

It’s been announced that Chris Pratt has landed the much coveted role of Peter Quill in Marvel’s upcoming sci-fi adventure, Guardians Of The Galaxy. Some less generous people immediately wondered how he’d got the role, largely because the actor star isn’t as skinny as your normal movie star (and in Hollywood, you can be an action lead if you have the body of a real, normal person).

However Pratt is a slightly unusual case as he has a bit of a thing for putting on and losing weight for roles – he’s previously admitted that he really enjoys it. For example, he lost 30 pounds to play a baseball player in Moneyball, then gained 50 pounds for the comedy Ten Year. After that he lost a fair bit of weight, before setting out to gain 90 pounds (but settling on around 60) to play an obese lawyer in the upcoming Vince Vaughn flick The Delivery Man.

As you can see from the pics below he’s been both chunky and pretty ripped (proving that with a camera phone pic in his underpants), and presumably he’ll be busy working out and building muscle in preparation for the physical demands of Guardians.

As well as his weight going up and down for movie roles, he’s well known for his TV work, most recently in Parks & Recreation.He’s also appeared in the likes of The OC and Everwood. And in the evening he gets to go home to wife Anna Faris, who presumably doesn’t mind having a hubby who likes to let his weight fluctuate wildly.

Whatever his weight, I reckon he’s very cute and hopefully he’ll be able to bring some humour to the superhero flick in Guardians. Click on the pics below for larger versions.