Chris Pratt: ‘I feel like anxiety is a burden of the hyper-intelligent’
Chris Pratt covers the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly… to promote Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, not Avengers: Infinity War. Jurassic World doesn’t come out for a month, and Infinity War comes out in less than two weeks. It’s weird. Anyway, Pratt will probably manage to avoid answering most questions about his divorce from Anna Faris, and on the rare occasions when he is asked, he has a pretty good line that summarizes his experience. Some highlights from his EW profile:
What the latest Jurassic World movie will feel like: “At the end of the day, we’re all trying to make something that will be part of the Jurassic empire and tonally match the previous movies, but we’re going off in a new direction.”
Whether he’s worried about how this film will be received: “I feel like anxiety is a burden of the hyper-intelligent. It’s someone else’s job to worry about that. I just show up, stand on the X, say the lines, and give them all three of my scared faces.”
His divorce: “Divorce sucks. But at the end of the day, we’ve got a great kid who’s got two parents who love him very much. And we’re finding a way to navigate this while still remaining friends and still being kind to one another. It’s not ideal, but yeah, I think both of us are actually probably doing better.”
“It’s not ideal, but yeah, I think both of us are actually probably doing better.” I think he’s right about that? Anna Faris seems happier than ever, like she’s finally rediscovered her own identity. Chris seemed to take some time to mourn the marriage and he’s been seen going on some quiet, low-key dates. I see him getting remarried sooner rather than later, and I bet he ends up with a non-celebrity too. As for this – “I feel like anxiety is a burden of the hyper-intelligent” – that’s either a good line that someone wrote for him or a surprisingly sharp critique of his place on the food chain. Of course he cares that his movies are successful, but he’s also doing these huge extravaganza movies where he’s just one small part of an enormous machine.
Cover courtesy of Entertainment Weekly, additional photos courtesy of Getty.
