Chris Pratt Admits He Bombed ‘All’ His Marvel Auditions Before Landing ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’: ‘They Didn’t Even Want Me To Come Back’

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Chris Pratt is opening up about his “rough run with Marvel.” Before the actor landed the leading role of Peter Quill/Star-Lord in the “Guardians of the Galaxy” franchise, he admitted to having horrible luck with preceding auditions for Marvel films. “I auditioned for them all.

I had a rough run with Marvel,” Pratt told Jimmy Kimmel during his appearance on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Thursday. “I auditioned for ‘Thor’, but not even to be Thor — but to be one of the sidekick guys, and 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.’ Which is code for being like: ‘Hey, dial back the acting there, guy.’” READ MORE: Chris Pratt Says He’s ‘Not Sad Yet’ Over ‘Guardians’ Coming To An End As Pratt failed to land role after role, he said “it 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.’” When asked which Marvel films he auditioned for, Pratt clarified, “all of them.” “Anything that came out that needed a guy that even remotely looked like me, I auditioned for in some way or another,” he explained. “And 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.’” “And it was not only just Marvel things but there have been a lot of heroic characters in various films,” he continued. “Not DC characters, but like, you know, ‘Star Trek’ or ‘Avatar’.