Chris Pratt Was Rejected From Marvel And Thor

One of the many successful franchises he’s currently attached to is the Guardians of the Galaxy series within the MCU — the third movie of which comes out this Friday, May 5.

You could say that, at this point, Chris is a major player within the MCU — but during a recent appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, the actor revealed that he almost gave up entirely on his Marvel dreams earlier in his career.

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Chris revealed that he auditioned to appear in one of the Thor movies — but not in the way you think. “I auditioned for Thor, but not even to be Thor — but to be one of the sidekick guys,” he said. “I didn’t get a callback.”

“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.

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

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.

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.”

“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.'”

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.

Watch the whole interview here.