Summary
- Chris Pratt’s charm lies in his relatable characters, but his youngest kids have no idea he’s an actor. His oldest child jokes that he couldn’t care less.
- Pratt’s son likes to joke that Star Lord is the weakest Avenger and the second-worst MCU character, and Pratt embraces the fun teasing from his tween son.
-
The Garfield Movie
continues Pratt’s voiceover career after
The LEGO Movie
and
The Super Mario Bros. Movie
. His voice has received approval from
Garfield
creator Jim Davis.
Chris Pratt remains one of the most likable actors in Hollywood, thanks to a combination of his humble ‘dad with jokes’ persona and the specific performances he chooses. He’s usually either a relatable, funny everyman (Parks and Recreation, Guardians of the Galaxy), a tough American patriot (Zero Dark Thirty, The Terminal List), or the voice of an iconic cultural touchstone (The LEGO Movie, The Super Mario Bros. Movie, and now The Garfield Movie). Pratt told MovieWeb that, despite playing such big (and often kid-friendly) characters, it hasn’t impressed his three children yet. Granted, his daughters are one and three years old, but his older son has a hilarious opinion.
“My daughters have never seen anything I’ve ever been in, and they don’t even know I’m an actor,” Pratt explained, adding with a smile:
“And my son is at this age, as a tween, that if he did feel that way, he certainly wouldn’t let me know.
So he tends to, like, more make fun of me, which I think is great because it’s sort of our love language to tease each other
. But he’s always constantly reminding me of how, you know,
Star Lord is the weakest Avengers character
and the worst character, or the second-worst character, in the MCU. I’m like, ‘Okay, thanks.'”
“So hopefully they love me because I’m dad,” added Pratt. “But if they find out one day down the road that I voiced these characters, I don’t know it might be. I’ll be curious to see how they react. It might be a minute before they realize that it’s special because, as it is now, they don’t even know what I do, which is cool.”
Chris Pratt Divulges Harder Character to Pull Off (Garfield vs. Mario), Why Cat Hates Mondays
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The Garfield Movie Continues Chris Pratt’s Impressive Voiceover Career
While most people recognize Pratt as the schlubby and lovable Andy Dwyer in Parks and Recreation or the handsome but very human Star Lord in Guardians of the Galaxy, his voice is almost as recognizable. When news emerged that Pratt was voicing Mario in The Super Mario Bros. Movie, there was a lot of debate over the fact that he basically just sounded like himself. The alternative, however, could’ve been an embarrassing caricature of Italian culture.
Most people completely forgot their trepidation over Pratt’s voice when they saw The Super Mario Bros. Movie, which became a box office behemoth and the second highest-grossing movie of 2023, just behind Barbie.
The Garfield Movie
- Release Date
- May 24, 2024
- Studio
- Alcon Entertainment, Columbia Pictures, Paws
A similar hesitation may have developed when people first heard that Pratt was voicing Garfield, a character who is most famously voiced in the modern era by Bill Murray, someone who can’t exactly be replaced. Others will likely never forget the iconic voice of Lorenzo Music, who played the Monday-hating, lasagna-loving cat for 20 years in various TV specials and the great series, Garfield and Friends. But Garfield creator Jim Davis himself has approved and even praised Pratt’s voice for the character, and The Garfield Movie director Mark Dindal has said that the only person’s voice he hears as Garfield is Pratt’s, which all bodes very well for this new voiceover performance from the actor.
The Garfield Movie
releases in theaters May 24, 2024, from Sony Pictures.
