Chris Pratt, Anna Faris, Katherine Schwarzenegger. Getty Photographs (3)
Chris Pratt has had his justifiable share of controversial moments all through his profession.
Whereas Pratt turned well-known for his position of the lovable Andy on Parks and Recreation, the actor has additionally raised eyebrows for insensitive feedback he’s made over time.
In 2020, a meme went viral asking individuals to decide on which Hollywood Chris “has to go” between Pratt, Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth and Chris Pine. So many individuals chosen Pratt that he began to pattern on social media.
Pratt jokingly addressed the meme on his Instagram Tales, writing, “I made it into the finals! I’m within the finals! I used to be picked final. It was very traumatic. Anybody who’s been picked final is aware of how that feels.”
Preserve scrolling to see Pratt’s controversies over time:
Blue-Collar Illustration Feedback
Pratt raised eyebrows in 2017 after he claimed that blue-collar People weren’t nicely represented in Hollywood.
“I don’t see private tales that essentially resonate with me, as a result of they’re not my tales,” he stated in an April 2017 interview with Males’s Well being. “I feel there’s room for me to inform mine, and doubtless an viewers that may be hungry for them. The voice of the typical, blue-collar American isn’t essentially represented in Hollywood.”
Shortly after his remarks made headlines, Pratt admitted he made a mistake.
“That was truly a fairly silly factor to say. I’ll personal that,” he wrote by way of X on the time. “There’s a ton of films about blue-collar America.”
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His Sizzling Tackle Subtitles
One month after he made his blue-collar remarks, Pratt made headlines when he instructed his followers to make use of the total quantity and “not simply learn the subtitles” when watching a video he put out. The Marvel star was referred to as out by the deaf and hard-of-hearing neighborhood for his insensitive request. Pratt later apologized with a video of him utilizing signal language.
“So after I made a video just lately with subtitles and requested that folks flip up the quantity and never simply ‘learn the subtitles’ it was so individuals wouldn’t scroll previous the video on mute, thus watching and digesting the knowledge within the video. HOWEVER, I notice now doing so was extremely insensitive to the various of us on the market who depend upon subtitles,” he wrote by way of a prolonged Instagram assertion. “Greater than 38 million People reside with some type of listening to incapacity. So I wish to apologize. I’ve individuals in my life who’re hearing-impaired, and the very last thing on the earth I might wish to do is offend them or anyone who suffers from listening to loss or another incapacity. So actually from the underside of my coronary heart, I apologize. Thanks for pointing this out to me. Sooner or later, I’ll attempt to be rather less ignorant about it.”
His Non secular Affiliation
Rumors swirled in 2019 that Pratt, who has been candid about his religion, was a member of the controversial Hillsong Church. The now disgraced megachurch has had anti-LGBTQIA+ views. On the time, Pratt shared that the church he attended was tolerant to all and implied that his divorce from ex-wife Anna Faris was an analogous expertise to being a member of the LGBTQIA+ neighborhood.
“I’m going to a church that opens their doorways to completely everybody,” he wrote by way of his Instagram Story in February 2019. “Regardless of what the Bible says about divorce my church neighborhood was there for me each step of the way in which, by no means judging, simply gracefully accompanying me on my stroll. They helped me tremendously, providing love and help. It’s what I’ve seen them do for others on numerous events no matter sexual orientation, race or gender.”
Three years later, Pratt publicly slammed the rumors about him being concerned in Hillsong.
“I by no means went to Hillsong. I’ve by no means truly been to Hillsong. I don’t know anybody from that church,” Pratt stated in a June 2022 interview with Males’s Well being. “Faith has been oppressive as f–ok for a very long time. I didn’t know that I might form of grow to be the face of faith when actually I’m not a spiritual individual.”
Anna Faris Shade
Pratt and Faris, who share son Jack, divorced in 2018. The next yr, he tied the knot with Katherine Schwarzenegger. Whereas Pratt and Faris had been on good phrases after their cut up, he raised eyebrows in 2020 when social media customers thought he shaded the actress in a submit thanking Schwarzenegger for giving him a “wholesome” daughter. (Faris and Pratt’s son Jack was born prematurely.)
Pratt later revealed that he “cried” when he noticed that folks interpreted his thrilling information as a dig at Faris and Jack.
“A bunch of articles got here out and stated, ‘That’s so cringeworthy. I can’t consider Chris Pratt would thank her for a wholesome daughter when his first youngster was born untimely. That’s such a dig at his ex-wife,’” he stated in a June 2022 interview with Males’s Well being. “That’s f–ked up. My son’s gonna learn that someday. He’s 9. And it’s etched in digital stone. It actually f–king bothered me, dude. I cried about it.”
Chris Pratt, Katherine Schwarzenegger. Michael Kovac/Getty Photographs for Cleobella x Katherine Schwarzenegger
L.A. Dwelling Demolition Drama
Pratt and Schwarzenegger acquired backlash in April 2024 after they determined to demolish their Los Angeles residence. The pair bought the historic Zimmerman home so that they may very well be near Schwarzenegger’s mom, Maria Shriver. The house was initially inbuilt 1953 and plenty of preservationists had been upset concerning the couple’s option to demolish it.
“Saddened (additionally angered frankly) to study of the demolition of the Zimmerman Home,” author DC Hillier wrote by way of Instagram. “As soon as positioned in Los Angeles’s Brentwood neighborhood the house was designed by Craig Ellwood in 1953, with landscaping designed by the acclaimed Garrett Eckbo. Actor Chris Pratt and Katherine Schwarzenegger purchased the property as a result of Schwarzenegger needed to be near her mom, who owns two properties throughout the road.”
Pratt and Schwarzenegger haven’t addressed the criticism.
