Chris Pratt Clarifies His Connection With Hillsong Church, Calls Religion ‘Oppressive as F–k’

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Chris Pratt has insisted he has never been to Hillsong three years after Elliot Page accused him of attending an ‘infamously anti-LGBTQ+’ church. The Terminal List star, who actually no longer wants to be referred to by his first name, asserted that he has no connections to Hillsong as he shed light on his religious beliefs. ‘I never went to Hillsong,’ Pratt said.

“I never went to Hillsong,” Chris Pratt says of the controversial church in a Men’s Health cover story published today. “I’ve never actually been to Hillsong. I don’t know anyone from that church.”

OK, sorry, but WTF is Chris Pratt talking about?!

Chris Pratt has claimed that “no one” calls him Chris in a new interview.Speaking on SiriusXM’s Pop Culture Spotlight With Jessica Shaw, the Jurassic World star initially confused the host with the declaration. “What do they call you?” Shaw asked, “Pratt?”“Yep. Pratt.

Zack Sharf “Why are they coming after me?” Chris Pratt recently asked in a new Men’s Health magazine profile. The “Guardians of the Galaxy” and “Jurassic World” star was referring to social media users who continue to troll his every move. Pratt connected the hatred he gets on social media to a public misconception about his religious beliefs, which he claims dates back to a speech he gave at the 2018 MTV Movie & TV Awards.Pratt received the award ceremony’s life achievement honor, titled the Generation Award, and said the following line in his acceptance speech: “God is real.

Elliot Page shared with the world in late 2020 that he was transgender, there was a question about whether Netflix's would reflect Page's real-life journey onscreen. Scripts for the third season had already been written by that point, but after taking some time to mull over how best to approach Page's new chapter, creator and showrunner Steve Blackman decided to incorporate it into the narrative.

onscreen transition to his true self loosely mirrored that of the real-life journey for his portrayer, Elliot Page, who came out as transgender in late 2020.The hour-long episode, titled «World's Biggest Ball of Twine,» spent significant time focusing on his journey to becoming Viktor. After learning that his former love, Sissy, would later die, he received the clarity he needed to step out of his box and embrace his true identity as Viktor — cutting his hair as a literal and symbolic way to mark the start to his new life's chapter.When Viktor reintroduced himself to his other Hargreeves siblings, they accepted him immediately and without fanfare before they moved on to the next order of business — figuring out how to save the universe from another apocalyptic event.

Elliot Page's real-life transition was reflected in an early season 3 episode of Netflix's when his character reintroduced himself as Viktor Hargreeves. Page publicly shared in December 2020 that he was transgender and would use he/him pronouns. In March of this year, Netflix confirmed with a photo that Page's character, who had been known as Vanya and used she/her pronouns for the first two seasons, would now be Viktor and use he/him pronouns.Even with another world-ending apocalypse looming large within the world of, the series dealt a sensitive hand in crafting Viktor's onscreen transition story.