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Chris Pratt Was Rejected From So Many Auditions Before “Guardians Of The Galaxy” That He Considered Never Auditioning For MCU Films Again
Chris Pratt Was Rejected From So Many Auditions Before "Guardians Of The Galaxy" That He Considered Never Auditioning For MCU Films Again,"I would either submit a tape and they would say, 'No, we don’t need to see him,' or I would get there and see them, they’d go, 'No, that’s the last time we need to see you.'"

Chris Pratt Was Rejected From So Many Auditions Before “Guardians Of The Galaxy” That He Considered Never Auditioning For MCU Films Again

Obviously, Chris Pratt is a huge star.


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“Usually, they give you a little bit of feedback, and I remember the casting director goes, ‘Wow. You really made a big choice there,'” he recalled.

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“Which is code for like, ‘Hey, dial back the acting there, guy.’”

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Chris said that the professional rejection “got to the point where I was never gonna audition for Marvel again.” “I was like, ‘This is stupid, I’m never gonna be in a Marvel movie,'” Chris recalled.

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The self-doubt came at a time where Chris was auditioning for “anything that came out that needed a guy that even remotely looked like me.”

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“I would either submit a tape and they would say, ‘No, we don’t need to see him,’ or I would get there and see them, they’d go, ‘No, that’s the last time we need to see you.'”

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Of course, we all know what happened next. Is there a lesson here? Sure — if at first you don’t succeed in getting cast in an MCU movie, try, try, again.

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Watch the whole interview here.