Chris Pratt drops surprising secret fans never knew

Chris Pratt has revealed he almost ditched his full name for a stage name straight out of a Bubba Gump Shrimp Company nametag.

The 46-year-old Guardians of the Galaxy star, born Christopher Michael Pratt, told Josh Horowitz on the Happy Sad Confused podcast that during his time working at the Maui, Hawaii, Bubba Gump restaurant, the “P-H-E-R” on his tag wore off, leaving him as “Christo”.

“Everyone called me Christo for a long time,” he laughed, explaining that new employees assumed it was his real name. 

“As I navigated being discovered and brought to LA, part of me thought, ‘Maybe I’d go by just Christo.’” 

He joked: “It’s never too late.”

But it seems Hollywood wasn’t ready for Christo as Pratt stuck with Chris, and the rest, as they say, is blockbuster history.

On a more serious note, the Jurassic World star also slammed the rise of AI actors, taking aim at digital “actress” Tilly Norwood. 

“I don’t feel like someone’s going to replace me that’s AI… it’s all bulls***. 

I’ve never seen her in a movie, I don’t know who this b**** is. It’s all fake,” he told Variety.

Tilly’s creator, Eline van der Velden, defended her AI character, calling it “a piece of art, not a replacement”. 

She insisted AI, like animation or CGI, simply opens new creative doors, rather than taking human actors’ jobs.

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