While his new Super Mario Bros. movie is raking it in at the box office, Chris Pratt is opening up about the difference of raising boys and girl.
The 43-year-old actor shares 10-year-old son Jack with his first wife Ana Faris and two-year-old daughter Lyla Marie and 9-month old daughter Eloise Christina with wife Katherine Schwarzenegger.
Pratt was promoting The Super Mario Bros. Movie on Late Night with Seth Meyers on Friday, where he opened up on the differences of raising boys and girls.
When asked what it’s like being a new girl dad, Pratt said, ‘I love it, man. It’s really great.’
‘I have a 10-year-old son and this is my first time having daughters, and it really is fantastic,’ Pratt added.
‘You hear that maybe the experience is different, and it really is, in my experience,’ Pratt added, before offering a specific example.
‘My daughter Lyla is so girly. I picked her up yesterday and she said, ‘Oh Daddy, that’s a cute outfit. Look, you have little cute pockets,” he said.
Pratt added with a laugh, ‘That’s not something Jack ever said to me,’ while host Seth Meyers added, ‘Yeah, my boys have not mentioned my pockets once.’
Meyers also asked Pratt about his famous father-in-law, Arnold Schwarzenegger, asking if it’s ‘surreal’ to be a part of his family.
‘Yeah, it is pretty surreal. I mean, I’ve gotten to know him now as just a regular guy and all of that. He’s a great grandfather, a great dad, a good father-in-law and he’s got a wealth of experience, oddly, in the world of promoting blockbuster action movies,’ Pratt said with a laugh.
Pratt added that Schwarzenegger is, ‘a great dude,’ adding, ‘We play chess a lot and he loves his grandchildren.’
When Meyers asked who is better at chess, Pratt admitted, ‘I’ve never beat him. He’s really good.’
Meyers also asked him about voicing Mario in The Super Mario Bros. Movie, asking if he played any of the video games as a kid.
‘Yes. Honestly, if I had to count up the hours, and this is no hyperbole, I think it’s close to 25 million hours,’ Pratt joked.
He added that the new movie is ‘fantastic’ adding there are a lot of ‘great Easter Eggs’ sprinkled throughout the film.
The actor also said that, ‘the soundtrack lifts from the soundtrack of the games,’ and he had a, ‘Pavlovian response to the coin and landing on a turtle and breaking a brick and getting a star.’
’30 years I’ve been preparing for this movie, and as an audience, you realize how hypnotizing that music has been,’ Pratt clarified, adding his son Jack plays Mario Kart and Smash Bros on his Nintendo Switch.
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When asked if he was of the age where he would actually go to arcades, Pratt says he was.
‘I was right in that sweet spot. So it was late 80s when I first was introduced to the Super Mario Bros. or Mario Bros. arcade style game,’ Pratt said.
He added that he grew up in a ‘very small town’ and there wasn’t anything to do, so I would come home from school and go to this little coin-operated laundromat… and there was an arcade game there.’
Pratt added that there was also a pizza place with a jukebox that had its coin return in the back, so he would reach behind the machine for quarters, and if he found any, he would head to the laundromat to play that game.
He also said that the teenaged manager of the laundromat Jason would give him a quarter if he got into the tumble dry dryer and get spun around in it, adding it was a, ‘win-win’ for him.
Source: www.dailymail.co.uk
