Chris Pratt Loves Taking His Junk Out, Shares Stories From High School: "I Was Naked A Lot"
Chris Pratt is serving "rugged safari style" in a feature for GQ June, talking about this transition from plump comic actor to America's favorite blockbuster action star and the life changes that have come along with it.
"I think I was outwardly having more fun. I was more fun to be around," the 35-year-old star says of his former, more round self. He admits that adjusting to a newer, healthier lifestyle with more self control and a better diet and exercise plan made him "less fun," but a change was inevitable.
"My bones ached, I had cardiovascular issues, I was unhealthy, I was feeling rotten," he said.
There are some things, however, that would never change. Among them, his improvisational sense of humor and penchant for being naked.
Pratt recalled times when his nude preference began developing as a kid. "I was like a little perv," he says:
"I was a jokester, I had a dirty mind, and a dirty sense of humor. And I was naked a lot. I was naked all the time. It was just recently, in the last few years since I've become an adult, that I've learned to keep my clothes on. And even then, I really haven't…I got suspended from the track team in high school for getting naked on the track bus. I was always getting naked. I thought it was hilarious. I didn't understand how somebody could be so offended by me just taking my junk out."
Pratt even revisited that one particular Parks and Rec scene where his character, Andy Dwyer, was supposed to show up nude in a doorway. In real life, he was expected to wear some kind of cock sock, but in reality, he went into the scene completely nude to get the best reaction shot from his co-star Amy Poehler.
"I got yelled at by NBC for getting naked," he said:
They sent me a letter. HR sent me a letter. Someone obviously must have complained about it or something. I guess now that I don't work for them, I can make fun of it, but part of the letter was saying, like, 'Also, don't mock this. Just so we're clear, you're being reprimanded, and don't go around talking about how this is funny.'
[It was] the take they fucking used, by the way, that made the air, and was hilarious, so I was totally right, but apparently if you want to get naked there's certain protocols you have to take to prevent people from being offended—you have to give them the opportunity to not see it.
And another anecdote for the road: "That's how I was in high school, too. I remember walking into the coach's office with just a sock on. Not on my feet. And I was like, 'Hey, Coach, can I talk to you?' And they were like, 'Jesus, God!' I liked making people feel uncomfortable."
Never change, Chris! Never change!
