Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn famously cast Chris Pratt as Star-Lord in the Marvel feature . But Gunn confided that Pratt’s size at the time presented a problem when he had to cast the rest of the movie. James Gunn wanted actors who could make Chris Pratt look smaller Pratt managed to snag his Guardians of the Galaxy role after a lengthy audition process that saw him competing with several actors.
But initially, Pratt doubted he’d get the part. He tested for Marvel movies before like Thor , and the constant rejection left him a bit jaded. However, Pratt recognized that Marvel was having more than a tough time finding their Star-Lord.
“I was circling around it for a long time, and they kept testing people and testing people, and no one was right for it,” Pratt once told MTV News . But things changed after Pratt spoke to the film’s director Gunn. “I went in and met the director, James Gunn, and something happened in that room,” Pratt said.
“He gave me a sense of what he wanted. I, of course, wasn’t able to read a script until essentially after signing up to do the movie. I could tell from what he wanted that it was something close to what I could give.
It started just becoming real. Then it did. I had a screen test for it.
Even during the screen test, I was like, ‘Oh, I got this. This is mine. This is mine now.
’ I knew going in.” Pratt also lost a significant amount of weight for the role. But his chiseled physique made casting the rest of .
