Chris Pratt is the anti-Matthew McConaughey.
To perform a lawyer in the forthcoming comedy flick Starbuck, the 33- year - outdated actor was asked to place on a considerable quantity of weight. (The film centers about Vince Vaughn, whose character learns he is fathered 533 youngsters by means of sperm donations.)
"I gained 60 pounds in about 4 and a half months. I just did it the old fashioned way: eating and drinking my encounter off," Pratt shared on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno Dec. ten. " I have lost a small bit of it, but it was challenging. It was probably just as hard as dropping fat. You would not think it, but it is. It truly is these exact same principle: It's all about discomfort."
Pratt continued to pack on the pounds although shooting season five of NBC's Parks and Recreation. "Our props depart ment claimed that I ate 81 scoops of ice cream. It was truly messed up," he laughed. " It truly is challenging to have delightful ice cream all over you and not eat it. When you're waiting all over for everyone to get the scene set up, you're nonetheless eating ice cream."
" I've eaten weird items by way of the course of my lifestyle," added Pratt, who grew up in Lake Stevens, Washington. " I've eaten wild game, I have eaten possum -- possum's no great."
The actor also chatted about his new movie, Zero Dark Thirty, in which he plays a Navy SEAL who is tasked with capturing or killing Osama bin Laden.
"I got in very good shape for that movie. I was able to go with [costar Joel Edgerton] to the BUD/s instruction facility in Coronado and got to meet genuine SEAL team guys," mentioned Pratt, who welcomed firstborn son Jack (with wife Anna Faris) in late August. "I was extremely nervous to me et these guys since I did not know how they had been going to be. They're the type of solid that they do not have to inform you or show to you that they are solid. You know!"
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Pratt even participated in some teaching drills. "They knew that I'm not the physical specimen that they are, and they had been humble and kind about it," he recalled.
The actor filmed most of his scenes in the Middle East. "There have been terrorist attacks in Jordan... I did not know a entire whole lot about in which I was going, so I was nervous. But they're an ally to the U.S. an d they taken care of us actually well... Other than security measures at the hotel and metal detectors all over the place, it felt rather secure."
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