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Jurassic Pratt
Who knew that the plump and jolly comic sidekick who used to pull pranks and strip naked on the set of 'Parks and Rec' would become Hollywood's next action superhero? For the second straight summer, he's got a giant movie riding on his shoulders—and it looks like he will for many summers to come. Maybe none of us imagined just how far Chris Pratt could go—except the man inside the fat suit
When I arrive at the house in the Hollywood Hills that Chris Pratt shares with his wife, the comic actress Anna Faris, and their 2 1/2-year-old son, Jack, Pratt has just returned from a long early-morning bike ride. He is getting in shape for three forthcoming movies and also preparing for a triathlon in a few weeks' time, something he was talked into by a good friend, a Navy Seal whom he met while making Zero Dark Thirty. This is the sort of thing you might expect from the new Chris Pratt—the one who posts six-pack selfies on Instagram, the one whose last movie, Guardians of the Galaxy, grossed nearly $800 million worldwide and re-invented him from a bumbling, chubby sitcom sidekick into everyone's favorite new movie star (a status he hopes to bolster with this month's Jurassic World). In other words, the one who has undergone a parallel physical and professional transformation without obvious precedent in Hollywood.
Pratt's road here, to this career and this body, has been unlikely and meandering. When he first auditioned for movies in his early twenties he would try out for all kinds of roles, but he soon fell into the first of the two stereotypical parts that would fill up his next decade. "Typically, I was getting typecast as the bad boyfriend. The boyfriend of the girl who you hope ends up with the guy you like. That was my bread and butter for a long time," he says. He's had a quick shower and has lit a cigar—some combination of late-morning pleasure and character prep for his next movie, The Magnificent Seven. "Looking back, I think I know why. Physically, I looked like an *******."
What do you mean?
"I looked like the guy—like Johnny in The Karate Kid, you know?"
more at gq.com/entertainment/celebrities/201506/chris-pratt-cover-story