Chris Pratt is ready for summer—and now, so are we!
The 35-year-old actor looks too good to be true on the cover of Entertainment Weekly's "Your Summer Must List" issue. While lifting himself out of the pool, his muscles look toned under his soaked tank top. It goes without saying that the actor is promoting Universal Pictures' Jurassic World, in theaters June 12.
Needless to say, Pratt is having quite a moment.
After the success of 2014's Guardians of the Galaxy, Pratt found himself presenting at the Oscars and attending the Super Bowl. "I had one party I got invited to that was like an episode of The Twilight Zone," the former Parks and Recreation star says. "It was like every celebrity I've ever seen in my entire life. I thought it was going to be like Eyes Wide Shut and all of a sudden masks were gonna come out."
Pratt's personal appeal gives his characters added charisma.
"You can't fake what he has," says Chris Evans, who co-starred with Pratt and Anna Faris in the 2011 rom-com What's Your Number? and later won their Super Bowl Bet benefitting children's charities. "He's a very genuine, very sincere, very humble person. And I think most people are clever enough to see through people who are putting that on. That's just who he is. That's what's so damn likable about him."
Bryce Dallas Howard, who stars opposite Pratt in Jurassic World, couldn't agree more. "Basically at this point I'm like, 'Chris Pratt for president.'"
Entertainment Weekly's May 29/June 5 issue also features stories on Fantastic Four, Magic Mike XXL, Minions, Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, Ted 2 and Trainwreck, plus TV shows and music releases.
Pratt is also GQ's June 2015 cover star.
How has he handled being less famous—and then more famous—than his wife?
"I think it's something you have to manage," Pratt tells the magazine. "It's a little different, because she's achieved enough to hang her hat on for her life, anyways. She's done really amazing things—she's always gonna be known for really funny and great work, critically acclaimed work and successful stuff."
Pratt remembers how it feels to be in his wife's shadow. "I've had those moments, where I was like the guy holding the purse at events and people just looked right through me. And, you know, actors come up and just blatantly hit on my wife in front of me and don't even look at me. I'm like, 'What the f--k, dude?' I can think of exactly who they are, too, and I hope they f--king audition for Guardians of the Galaxy," he says, referring to the sequel, which starts shooting in February 2016.
Actors weren't the only ones to treat Pratt that way, he admits. "Producers and studio people now who will come up to me and treat me the same way that they were treating Anna. "They're like, 'I always knew...' I'm like, 'Is that right? That's interesting, because you f--king stared right through me the last time,'" he says.
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