By Rollo Ross and Danielle Broadway ‘The Garfield Movie’ gave Chris Pratt a reminder of his lazy side LOS ANGELES, - Voicing the iconic lazy, orange cat in “The Garfield Movie” reminded Chris Pratt of himself when he was in his late 20s and early 30s. Unlock exclusive access to the latest news on India's general elections, only on the HT App. Download Now! Download Now! “I ate so much all the time, and I was very lazy,” he told Reuters.
“I never exercised and I ate a whole bunch, and it was great," the “Guardians of the Galaxy” actor added. "So, now I don't have that any longer, but I do have the sense that I'm constantly pampered. So, depending on the season of my life we're talking about, there are similarities in the characters, but I've yet to be all of them all at once.
" Pratt humorously noted that his connection to his character became stronger in several ways leading up to his interview. “I've become Garfield. Look.
I've got orange all around me. I was pampered and pet all morning before this interview and now I'm going to eat a big bowl of lasagna,” he said. The famed 1976 comic strip from cartoonist Jim Davis is going from page to animation.
Distributed by Sony Pictures, it arrives in U.S. movie theaters on Friday.
The film follows Garfield, a lethargic and greedy orange cat, as he’s snatched away from his pampered lifestyle and forced to carry out a heist for the sake of his alley cat father Vic, voiced by Samuel L. Jackson. Pratt is no stran.
