Chris Pratt opened up about his early days in the business when he revealed that he almost went by a different name.
The 46-year-old actor said he once seriously thought about going with Christo, a nickname he got while working at the Bubba Gump Shrimp Company in Maui.
His name tag had the last letters rubbed off so it just said Christo and everyone at work started calling him that.
He told the story on Happy Sad Confused podcast with Josh Horowitz.
Pratt said the nickname stuck with him for a while, and he even considered keeping it when he moved to Los Angeles to pursue his acting dreams.
In the end is Jurassic World the actor kept his real name when his first role came in 2000 in a short film called Cursed Part 3, after director Rae Dawn Chong spotted him at the restaurant.
Pratt also spoke about artificial intelligence in movies, criticizing AI actress Tilly Norwood and saying he doesn’t think machines can replace real actors.
However, he called it false and said that human talent will always matter no matter what.
Whereas Tilly’s creator, Eline van der Velden, defended while saying AI was made for creative tools like puppets or animation, a new way to explore stories without replacing real artists.
