Chris Pratt's journey to fame was almost a different name entirely. Indeed, the "Mercy" star revealed that his given name is Christopher Michael Pratt, but he had another idea for a moniker when he first broke into Hollywood.
"I was going to be Christo," he shared on the Jan. 22 episode of Josh Horowitz's "Happy Sad Confused" podcast. "I had a name tag that said 'Christopher'—but this was at a Bubba Gump Shrimp Company. But the P-H-E-R part got rubbed off, so it said Christo and everyone called me Christo for a long time."
While the name caught on in the service industry, the "Guardians of the Galaxy" star admitted it didn't quite catch on in Tinsel Town.
"As I navigated being discovered and brought to Los Angeles to follow my dreams," he said. "Part of me thought in earnest, 'Maybe I'd go by just Christo.'" While he ultimately stuck with Chris Pratt, he joked, "it's never too late."
Chris is also no stranger to being called by one of the other famous Chrises in Hollywood—alongside fellow Marvel stars Chris Evans and Chris Hemsworth as well as Chris Pine—as he noted to Josh, "someone on this press tour called me Chris Pine."
"I don't think they mistake me," he shared, before adding, "I think...just the alliteration."
And while Chris—who shares son Jack, 13, with ex-wife Anna Faris, as well as kids Lyla, 5, Eloise, 3, and Ford, 14 months, with wife Katherine Schwarzenegger Pratt—isn't calling out those who mistake him for other Chrises, he's calling BS on the idea that an artist with the name of Artificial Intelligence, a la Tilly Norwood, can take away roles from him on the big screen.
"I don't feel like someone's going to replace me that's AI," Chris told Variety at the New York premiere of "Mercy" Jan. 20. "I heard this Tilly Norwood thing. I think that's all bullshit. I've never seen her in a movie. I don't know who this bitch is." He added, "You know, it's all fake until it's something."
