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Chris Pratt<\/a> got candid about the worst note a director ever gave him.<\/p>\n

During an interview on the “Happy Sad Confused<\/a>” podcast on Jan. 22, the 46-year-old actor spoke about his experience making the movie “Moneyball,” and how director Bennett Miller gave him “the worst note and the best note” he’s ever received.<\/p>\n

“I was playing first base and I was supposed to be really frustrated \u2019cause I couldn\u2019t catch the ball, right? And they had taught me to field for weeks and I got pretty good,” he said. “And so I was out there competitive, and I\u2019m doing this, and I\u2019m sweating. I\u2019m sweating. He comes up and the way he does, he\u2019s like, ‘Just stop being such an a–hole.'”<\/p>\n

He went on to say that the comment “made me so mad,” but admitted it was just what he needed to nail the scene, adding “it’s the shot that’s in the movie.”<\/p>\n

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The “Guardians of the Galaxy” star explained that in the scene his character can be seen “sitting there and sweat\u2019s dripping off my nose and I\u2019m mumbling like ‘f—,'” and that he wasn’t even aware the cameras were rolling.<\/p>\n

“That anger was what he wanted to see in me,” he said. “So he didn\u2019t really mean stop being an a–hole. He just knew how to push my buttons to make the character do something that I don\u2019t do authentically very well, which was anger. And so that was one of the best directions I ever got, but also one of the worst directions I ever got.”<\/p>\n

Pratt portrayed Scott Hatteberg in the Academy Award-nominated movie, a real-life former professional baseball player. In the film, Hatteberg is struggling to relearn the game after an elbow injury forced him to shift from being a catcher to a first baseman.<\/p>\n

The actor recently shared that he was discovered by actress and director Rae Dawn Chong when he was working as a server at Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. in Maui when he was 19. When on the podcast, he shared that a nickname he had as<\/a> a waiter almost became his stage name.<\/p>\n

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“I had a name tag that said Christopher at Bubblegum Shrimp Co.,” Pratt remembered. “But the \u2018PHER\u2019 got rubbed off, so it said \u2018Christo,\u2019 and everyone called me Christo for a long time while I was working at Bubba Gump.”<\/p>\n

“High turnover rate, the new employees thought my name was Christo,” he continued. “And as I navigated being discovered and brought to Los Angeles to follow my dreams, part of me thought in earnest maybe I go as just Christo.”<\/p>\n

While he did eventually decide to go by “Chris,” he told SiriusXM\u2019s “Pop Culture Spotlight With Jessica Shaw” in 2022 that “no one calls me Chris,” adding that he told his pastor, “it feels weird. It\u2019s not my name. Don\u2019t call me Chris.”<\/p>\n

Pratt is married to Katherine Schwarzenegger, the daughter of actor and former governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger<\/a>, and the couple share three children: Lyla, 5, Eloise, 3, and Ford, 1. He is also a father to son Jack, 13, whom he shares with ex-wife Anna Faris.<\/p>\n

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He recently went viral for sharing the unique gift Arnold gave him and Katherine for Christmas while on “The Graham Norton Show” earlier this month.<\/p>\n

“His love language is giving gifts, that’s for sure. He just goes all out,” he said. “This year, one was like a 6-foot by 8-foot portrait painting<\/a> of all three of my children and him as Santa Claus. And it’s very lifelike, and it’s very big. And it’s him as Santa Claus and then the three kids peering around the Christmas tree seeing him eat a cookie.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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