'There's No Doubt It Really Helped — Not Being Brooding or Dark' — Chris Pratt in Guardians of the Galaxy Changed the Game for Hollywood Leading Men, Twisters Star Glen Powell Says

Twisters prima Glen Powell credits Chris Pratt’s relation successful Marvel movie Guardians of the Galaxy for changing the crippled for Hollywood starring men.

In a illustration portion published by GQ, Powell said Pratt’s Star Lord, who archetypal appeared successful James Gunn’s hugely palmy 2014 MCU movie Guardians of the Galaxy, “really helped” by “not being brooding oregon dark.”

“I retrieve erstwhile Chris Pratt broke retired successful Guardians of the Galaxy,” Powell said. “There’s nary uncertainty it truly helped — not being brooding oregon dark. Like, I’m not Christian Bale. Christian Bale has a gravitas and a weight, and [Robert] Pattinson had his thing.

“And erstwhile Pratt benignant of appeared connected the country wherever helium was doing things that were a small much silly and buoyant, that’s wherever I consciousness astir astatine home. And that’s wherever I consciousness similar I had a cogwheel that is simply a indispensable spirit successful presumption of Hollywood, and not a cogwheel that a batch of guys tin play.”

Powell, then, credits Pratt for helping him go a movie star. He mentioned Christian Bale, who had played Batman successful Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy, and Robert Pattinson, who famously played Edward Cullen successful the Twilight Saga — some surely brooding and acheronian roles, arsenic Powell described.

Pratt’s Star Lord, however, was a antithetic benignant of starring man. As Powell said, Pratt was “a small much silly and buoyant.” It’s a relation that saw tremendous occurrence for Marvel Studios, and took Pratt’s vocation to different level.

Will helium reprise his relation arsenic Star Lord successful Avengers: Doomsday? His sanction was conspicuous by its lack from Marvel Studios’ archetypal Avengers: Doomsday casting announcement — thing the histrion subsequently joked about. “I don’t know! I deliberation it was, like, acold off,” Pratt told Collider aft being asked astir his chair. “They indispensable person chopped distant from it. I don’t cognize what happened. I don’t know. It was there. I’m definite it was there.”

As for Powell, he’s acceptable to prima arsenic the starring antheral successful Edgar Wright’s The Running Man, owed retired November 14.

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