10 Actors Who Went Unnecessarily Muscular For Movie Roles

1. Chris Pratt - Star-Lord

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Would a fat Chris Pratt really have been so terrible, or was fat snapped out of existence in the MCU sometime in 2008, meaning every MCU actor has to not look out of place in an Abercrombie & Fitch catalogue?

It’s not like Star-Lord relies on his strength or stamina to get s**t done. Most of the time he gets out of trouble by either shooting things, sheer luck, relying on the strength of the other Guardians, or by initiating dance-offs.

The amount of discipline it must have taken Pratt to go from Parks-and-Recreation podgy to Guardians-of-the-Galaxy ginormous is commendable, but why couldn’t James Gunn and Kevin Feige for once allow a leading actor in an MCU movie to represent normal bodies?

Phase 4 promises to be about representation, but the average person is nowhere to be seen in these movies. A human running around space doesn’t need to look like a Norse god.

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