Actor Chris Pratt says that if the only outcome of his platform and influence is that he helps to bring God into people’s lives, he will be satisfied with that result. In a recent interview with Relevant Magazine, Pratt explained that he tries to live out Matthew 5:14.
“I’m trying to be a light like Matthew 5:14,” Pratt said in an interview with Relevant’s managing editor Emily Brown. “I am a light in this world and you can’t hide it.”
Responding to a question on how his faith has impacted his career, Pratt said, “How it’s affected my life is just by basically using my platform periodically to express my faith.”
“I don’t know if that’s had an impact on me as, like, a commodity,” said Pratt, “but I can tell you it has had an impact on people who have come up to me in the street and said, ‘Hey, that’s really cool you say that.’”
“Maybe I’m affirming some of the 99, you know,” he said, “but I’m also really hoping that there’s the one out there…who’s been praying for a sign, and they see an Instagram video of me and they’re like, ‘Maybe that’s the sign.’”
“I love the idea that this whole thing was orchestrated so that I could help, you know, bring God into people’s lives. I think that would be the greatest outcome,” Pratt said. “Even if I never worked again [and] that was all I was known for, that would make me feel good. I [would] feel really good about that.”
How Chris Pratt Handles False Narratives About Himself
Chris Pratt is an actor who rose to fame while on the TV show “Parks and Recreation” and has since starred in the “Guardians of the Galaxy” franchise, the “Jurassic World” franchise, and numerous other films and series. Pratt is vocal about his Christian faith and partners with the prayer and meditation app Hallow.
Pratt is currently promoting his new film, “Mercy,” in which he plays a detective accused of murdering his wife. Pratt’s character has 90 minutes to defend himself to an AI judge. If he fails, he will be put to death.
During her interview with Pratt, Brown connected Pratt’s character needing to prove his innocence with Pratt himself at times being criticized in the media.
For example, in 2019 Pratt took criticism from actor Elliot Page (then known as Ellen Page) for attending an “anti-LGBTQ” church, which people speculated to be Hillsong. In 2022, some were calling for Pratt to be recast in “Guardians of the Galaxy” for attending a “homophobic church.” Director James Gunn defended Pratt from critics’ “made-up, utterly-false beliefs” and said Pratt was not part of a homophobic church.
“I know the church he currently goes to. Do you?” said Gunn. “(The answer is you don’t, but you heard from someone who heard from someone who heard from someone where he goes to church, so decided, ‘yeah, okay, I’ll believe this terrible thing I heard online about this celebrity!’)”
Actor Chris Pratt says that if the only outcome of his platform and influence is that he helps to bring God into people's lives, he will be satisfied with that result.Click to Post
