Family trauma, small-town drama, the angst of unrequited love . . . Monday night has become a lot more interesting now that Everwood's around. ELLEgirl caught up with on-screen best friends Chris Pratt and Mike Erwin to find out about life on the set, dream girls and bad habits.
Chris Pratt
Bright Abbott might be a bully, but Chris Pratt likes to think he has a good heart. The WB dream guy lets us know what makes him tick.
Even the Worst Day Can Wind Up Being the Best: I didn't have a car. I had gotten five tickets and a boot, and I'm thinking, "This is the worst." So my friend Jen said, "Aw, come over and I'll cook you some lunch." I walk two miles to her house to get some lunch, and then I get this call on my cell phone. My manager's like "Chris Pratt, you have an emergency audition in one hour for the WB." I kinda fit the WB profile, so I think I've auditioned for the WB 2000 times. So, I'm like, "Aw man, I just got lunch, can we do it tomorrow?" But she picked me up. I looked at the five pages of sides and I said, "This guy's a bully. I don't want to be a bully!" I went into the audition—I knew I'd do my best, but there was no attachment to it and I wasn't nervous. If I had a week to prepare for it, I probably would've walked in and like acted and then not gotten it—'cause I would've been an actor and I would've been doing my thing. It just goes to show that when you're right for something, you get it.
On Being "The Guy": Basically, I knew after I left the audition that the part was going to be mine. That sounds really cocky, but I felt really good about it. Then I was like "Alright, see you later, guys," closed the door, and, I do this all the time, I put my ear up to the door. They were saying, "Yeah, that's the guy," and I was like, "Whoa, I'm the guy, I'm the guy!"
On the Popular Crowd: I had a lot of friends in high school, but I wasn't, like, popular. That word "popular" is kind of loaded because a lot of times when people are popular, they only hang out with the popular crowd and they only stick by certain people based on whether they're popular too. I wasn't like that at all. My friends that I had in high school were my friends that I had in elementary school. A lot of people go their separate ways based on that popularity factor in high school, but I didn't. I stayed friends with all those people, I still am friends with all those people.
Laugh If You Want to be His Girlfriend: A sense of humor and security with one's self. Being able to cut it up and have a good time without worrying every minute about anything. Just being low-maintance and a lot of fun!
Why Moms Are So Good (or Not): I'm very messy. Disgustingly messy. I have a three bedroom house and I will sleep in my bedroom until it's so nasty and dirty that I don't want to go in it anymore. And then I'll switch to the guest room and I'll sleep in that until it's so nasty, I can't go in it. Then I'll switch to the couch downstairs in the living room. Once a month I just have to do a super-through, not even super-through, but just put in nine hours to clean up what I've done all month. Usually I only get about halfway done. I'm just really a slob. My mom took too good care of me.
You Gotta Have Hobbies: I'm an artist, I like to paint. I'm painting a mural on my wall right now in my bedroom. And I watch a lot of DVDs—I rent eight or nine DVDs a week.
On Being a Gemini: I'm finicky. I'll say one thing and mean it and then 15 minutes later, I'll say the exact opposite thing and I'll mean it. My opinion just swivels back and forth like a swing, it's just terrible. I got this fountain at this little store for $40 and I put it in the corner of my living room and I was like "God, that's great, I love this fountain, everyone look, I love this fountain!", and the thing is out on my back porch now, I don't even want to think about it.
