Chris Pratt is ready for 'Parks and Recreation' to end: 'You kind of run out of ideas'
How big a movie star has Chris Pratt come since 'Guardians of the Galaxy' launched him into a whole new stratosphere?
He's now ready to move on from the series that helped jump-start his career - the NBC sitcom, 'Parks and Recreation.'
'I think there's a collective feeling that people are creatively spent,' the actor tells GQ as one of the cover subjects of the magazine's annual Men of the Year issue.
'You kind of run out of ideas.'
In fact, Pratt is already eyeing moving behind the camera, despite still having 'Jurassic World' and 'Guardians of the Galaxy 2' in the pipeline.
'I'm always biting my tongue,' he told the magazine. 'When I'm on set, I kind of wish I could just tell everybody what to do. If I could tell everybody what to do, it would be great, and it would be done faster. And so that's what I'm working toward. I want control. I want control over something.'
One change that Pratt vows to never make is going back to his weight before he underwent the intense physical training regimen that turned him into an action lead in 'Guardians.'
'You can make a talking raccoon that looks real,' he says of his first reaction to Marvel's demands for his training. 'Why can't I just be fat?'
But now that he's been converted into a physical specimen, he can't stomach the idea of backsliding. 'I'm done with that,' he tells GQ.
Pratt's conquest of Hollywood, however, hasn't all gone according to script.
Like the time fellow Marvel movie alum Mickey Rourke (who played the villain in 'Iron Man 2') aggressively shushed Pratt's infant son, Jack, on an long plane flight.
'(He yelled) 'SHHHH!' Like he's the baby whisperer,' Pratt recounted to GQ. 'Like he's gonna get the baby to stop crying when the baby's mother can't, just by aggressively shushing the baby. Motherf----. I was like, 'Damn, the f-----' 'Wrestler; shushed my baby.' '
But just how far Pratt's star has risen is evident by the caliber of the other celebrities who share the GQ Men of the Year honors -- Dave Chappelle, Shailene Woodley, Ansel Elgort, Steve Carell, and Michael Sam also notched covers.
The GQ issue hits newsstands in New York on Nov. 18.
Pratt recalls that Mickey Rourke once shushed Pratt's son, Jack, on an airplane during a long trip when Pratt's wife, Anna Faris, was trying desperately to calm the baby down. '
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