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One of the most infuriating moments for audiences watching Avengers: Infinity War is when Star-Lord, aka Peter Quill, violently reacts to the news that his girlfriend Gamora has been killed by Thanos.
During the iconic Marvel scene, Iron Man, Spider-Man, Doctor Strange, and the Guardians of the Galaxy are seconds from removing Thanos’ gauntlet and thus preventing the mad Titan from completing his plan to snap half the universe away. However, when Star-Lord finds out that Gamora is gone, he loses it, and Thanos manages to retain the gauntlet.
Star-Lord actor Chris Pratt is more than aware that the scene in question enraged people. In a new interview with Out of Order’s Scene Stealers, he rewatched the key Infinity War moment and told the host he looks at it differently now, but that after the film was released, people would angrily approach him on the street and ask, “Why’d you do that, man?!”
“What’s wild about this scene is that people eviscerate Quill because of his responsibility for essentially getting Iron Man killed for that moment,” he said. “You know that human moment where people hate this character for a while, and I really felt that.”
Pratt went on to defend the scene, explaining that if Star-Lord hadn’t messed up his own plan, the movie would have been 30 minutes long. “We got [Thanos]. That’s not a movie. You know what I mean? So, looking at it now, I kind of feel the weight of and the ramifications of what happened to the character of Quill because of that. I’m still happy that it happened, but I didn’t understand that it would be iconic.”
In the midst of promoting his new sci-fi movie Mercy, which has been shown none by critics and audiences, Pratt also revealed that he’d previously auditioned to play “so many” characters in the MCU, but one meeting with Marvel’s head honcho Kevin Feige appeared to seal the deal when it came to finally being cast as the leader of the Guardians of the Galaxy.
According to a visibly emotional Pratt, he was out of shape when he attended the Marvel meeting, and Feige had eventually cut to the chase, slapping a Zero Dark Thirty-era buff selfie of Pratt down on the table and asking him if he could be that fit again.
“He wanted to talk to me and see me react to the picture and basically ask me if I could be a hero for him.”
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