{"id":834569,"date":"2025-03-16T17:12:38","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T22:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/16\/chris-pratt-says-he-plays-a-sliding-doors-version-of-the-same-character-when-making-big-commercial-movies-im-realizing-that-there-are-si\/"},"modified":"2025-03-16T17:12:38","modified_gmt":"2025-03-16T22:12:38","slug":"chris-pratt-says-he-plays-a-sliding-doors-version-of-the-same-character-when-making-big-commercial-movies-im-realizing-that-there-are-si","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/16\/chris-pratt-says-he-plays-a-sliding-doors-version-of-the-same-character-when-making-big-commercial-movies-im-realizing-that-there-are-si\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Pratt Says He Plays a \u201dSliding Doors\u2019 Version\u2019 of the Same Character When Making \u2018Big Commercial\u2019 Movies: \u2018I\u2019m Realizing That There Are Similarities\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Entertainment <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\tWhether it\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/guardians-of-the-galaxy\/\" id=\"auto-tag_guardians-of-the-galaxy\" data-tag=\"guardians-of-the-galaxy\">Guardians of the Galaxy<\/a>,\u201d \u201cJurassic World\u201d or \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/the-electric-state\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-electric-state\" data-tag=\"the-electric-state\">The Electric State<\/a>,\u201d you can always expect that familiar <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/chris-pratt\/\" id=\"auto-tag_chris-pratt\" data-tag=\"chris-pratt\">Chris Pratt<\/a> charm.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIn a recent interview with <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/chris-pratt-electric-state-character-similar-star-lord-11697666\">Entertainment Weekly<\/a>, Pratt discussed the similarities between his \u201cGuardians\u201d character, Peter Quill\/Star-Lord, and his \u201cElectric State\u201d character, Keats. Pratt said that the roles were no doubt similar, adding that when it comes to movies with a \u201cbig commercial tone,\u201d he\u2019ll almost always play a \u201c\u2018Sliding Doors\u2019 version\u201d of a scoundrel adventurer. <\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cI kind of like to think, hopefully, that\u2019s like every character I ever play though, in this tone, something that\u2019s like a big, family friendly, raucous, adventure, sci-fi film,\u201d Pratt said. \u201cWhen it\u2019s a big commercial tone like this, you\u2019re going to get a \u2018Sliding Doors\u2019 version of the characters that I like to play.\u201d<\/p>\n<div data-pmc-adm-ad-id=\"1234758890\">\n<h3>\n\t\t\tPopular on Variety\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\tIn terms of specific similarities between Peter Quill and Keats, Pratt said they both \u201chave a journey; they find something bigger than themselves to want to fight for and are willing to sacrifice themselves for.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cThere\u2019s [Keats] talking to an animated character through the course of it. So I guess, even now, just in this interview, I\u2019m realizing that there are similarities,\u201d Pratt said. \u201c[Keats] kind of feels like what Peter Quill could have been if he didn\u2019t get picked up and go to space, but instead lived through a robot war and went on the run with his robot friend.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tPratt has starred in three stand-alone \u201cGuardians\u201d films as Peter Quill and made his debut as Keats in <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/netflix\/\" id=\"auto-tag_netflix\" data-tag=\"netflix\">Netflix<\/a>\u2018s \u201cThe Electric State\u201d on March 14. The latter follows a young girl (Millie Bobby Brown) who must save her brother (Woody Norman) from an evil corporation that controls the masses through hyperrealistic VR programs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/film\/news\/chris-pratt-sliding-doors-version-same-character-big-movies-1236338913\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Jack Dunn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether it\u2019s \u201cGuardians of the Galaxy,\u201d \u201cJurassic World\u201d or \u201cThe Electric State,\u201d you can always expect that familiar Chris Pratt charm. In a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, Pratt discussed the similarities between his \u201cGuardians\u201d character, Peter Quill\/Star-Lord, and his \u201cElectric State\u201d character, Keats. Pratt said that the roles were no doubt similar, adding that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":834570,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[356,1798,4181],"tags":[6932,20913],"class_list":{"0":"post-834569","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chris","8":"category-entertainment","9":"category-pratt","10":"tag-chris","11":"tag-pratt"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=834569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/834570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}