Chris Pratt Reportedly 'Surprised' By Harsh Reactions To His Election Op-ed: 'He Wanted To Unite People' - Because not wanting to divide your fans is a bad thing

Chris Pratt was reportedly taken aback by the brutal response he got from fans after penning a neutral op-ed about the 2024 election.

A source said the actor didn't "realize" why the article generated so much backlash, as he only wanted to "unite" people with it.

Chris Pratt had called for Americans to remember that "we are fellow countrymen" regardless of who emerged victorious in the election, asking both sides to learn "how to win and lose with grace."

Chris Pratt Doesn't Understand Why He Is Getting Backlash​

The "Guardians of the Galaxy" actor was reportedly left puzzled by the backlash that trailed the article he wrote ahead of Tuesday's presidential election, which saw Donald Trump defeat Kamala Harris and make a historic return to the White House.



According to the Daily Mail, a source close to the actor shared that he's a "very open person and honest person" and that he "doesn't realize why his op-ed has rubbed people up the wrong way."

The insider continued, "He is genuine in nature even if it appears that he is actually oblivious to others' feelings. He's surprised by the reaction to his op-ed. He wanted people to talk about it and to make an impact."

"He wanted to unite people, but all he has done is unite people against him. He has been taken back," they added.

Chris Pratt Wrote A Neutral Article On The Election​

Fans were seemingly left divided by Pratt's neutral stand in the op-ed for his mother-in-law Maria Shriver's website, Sunday Paper, with some saying his noncommittal statement was vapid.



In the article, Pratt emphasized that he "sees things from both sides" and understands "that people's lives and rights are on the line." However, regardless of who emerges the winner, Americans must embrace the lessons learned from sports and learn "how to win and lose with grace."

"It's ok to take a moment to lick your wounds when you lose. Heck, go ahead and cry in the mirror," Pratt wrote. "But if we become too paralyzed by defeat or too pompous in victory, allegiance to our 'team' can blind us to the fact that we are fellow countrymen."

Many users took to social media to pen their frustration with the post, with some calling him names in the process.

"Coward… if you're gonna tell us to take a stand on our own political beliefs but you don't do the same but want us to take your 'stupid political advice' - shut up and sit down," a person wrote.

The Actor's Marvel Co-stars And His Father-in-Law Supported Kamala Harris​

Unlike Pratt, several of his Hollywood and Marvel Cinematic Universe colleagues endorsed Kamala Harris before the election kicked off.

Pratt's fellow "Avengers" stars, including Scarlett Johannsson, Robert Downey Jr, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Evans, Paul Bettany, Don Cheadle, and Danai Gurira, endorsed Harris in a viral video.

His father-in-law, Arnold Schwarzenegger, who was one-time governor of California with the Republican Party, also penned a lengthy post on X where he publicly endorsed Harris for president.

"I will always be an American before I am a Republican," Schwarzenegger wrote. "That's why, this week, I am voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz."

The "Terminator" actor said that a second presidential term for Trump "will just be four more years of bullsh-t with no results that make us angrier and angrier, more divided, and more hateful."



"We need to close the door on this chapter of American history, and I know that former President Trump won't do that. He will divide, he will insult, he will find new ways to be more un-American than he already has been, and we, the people, will get nothing but more anger," Schwarzenegger added.

No Standoff Between Chris Pratt And Arnold Schwarzenegger​

"Maria and Arnold respect him and know the man that he is," the source shared. "They don't agree with all of his views, but it isn't a deal breaker because they, along with everyone else he is friends with, know that he doesn't intend to hurt anyone's feelings or make them think a certain way."

The insider noted that both actors would refrain from discussing the election outcome but that Schwarzenegger is "always there for advice if Chris ever asks or needs it."



They continued, "Arnold, though a Republican, stands for Kamala, and he has his own reasons for that. Whomever Chris is voting for is his own decision and Arnold is going to accept it. He just wants Chris to be the man he needs to be for his children and his daughter."

The Actor Is Expecting His Third Child With His Wife​

Pratt is expecting his third child with wife Katherine Schwarzenegger, with whom he shares daughters Lyla Maria and Eloise Christina.

During a recent appearance on "Today," he sat down with his co-star Millie Bobbie Brown to discuss their new Netflix film "The Electric State." However, he took a moment to share details about his bundle of joy.

"You don't have to tell us, obviously, but do you know if it's a boy or a girl?" the show's co-host Savannah Guthrie asked Pratt, per People Magazine.



"We don't know!" he replied. "I've got my son Jack and then the two girls. So we don't know, we'll wait. We wait, and we're surprised on the day."

Pratt is also father to son Jack Pratt from his previous marriage to actress Anna Faris.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/chris-pratt-reportedly-surprised-harsh-000059066.html

 

[6MillionCoofs]

I hated when Katherine's first daughter was born and he made a big fucking deal out of how this baby was "HEALTHY". It was not at all what you'd expect from a father to a disabled son.

It is. The fact that they are even there is important enough.

 

[Meth Dick]

The "Terminator" actor said that a second presidential term for Trump "will just be four more years of bullsh-t with no results that make us angrier and angrier, more divided, and more hateful."

I'm sick of hearing this. This country is going to be divided no matter who fucking won. That's what's inevitably going to happen with any country ran on a primarily two-party system. There will always be an "us vs them" mentality whether you're on the left or right, it just so happens the right doesn't eat each other alive over the slightest deviation of the party's plans.
The only way this country will ever be truly united is after a bloody civil war where one side completely wins over the other. And even then, if it were the left to win, within a month those faggots would find a way to divide their side into another 2 halves because there has never been a group of people more hateful and vindictive and petty than the American left, and that's because unlike other hate filled parties of the world, the left is born out of a place of pretend victimhood, narcissism, and unregulated entitlement.

 

[Troonos]

Incredibly talented actor, and surprisingly based. I hope these faggots' backlash to his perfectly neutral words pushes him hard right.

 

[Megaton Punch]

Actually, I think people should act like this as a rule. Maintain cool in the face of these people being insane.

Eventually, people will start to notice who the crazy ones are.

I'd like to think that the very unexpected red wave is a result of this phenomenon. The levels of progressive hysteria are ten times anything we saw during the much reviled "satanic panic", and the reaction there is largely responsible for the surge in progressive extremism. It stands to reason that people saw what was going on and had enough. If so, expect things to get a whole lot more conservative over the next 10-15 years.

I just hope we aren't entering into a fall of Rome situation where we oscillate between increasingly insane positions until everything violently collapses.

 

[isalaide]

This may be unkind, but whenever a famous person attaches themselves to a Kennedy and starts making noises about their political takes, I smell a future Senate run. A milky 'why can't we be friends' op-ed doesn't exactly do much to dispel that smell.

He was marvellous in Parks & Rec. I don't think purely straight acting is his forte: he does best in those 'comic action man' Bruce Willis type roles. Still. Bruce Willis made a lot of money, so there's definitely worse career positioning you could go for.

 

[Otterly]

comic action man' Bruce Willis type roles.

I would be interested to know how many knocks to the head Willis took filming such roles, and how much of a role that playing in his dementia.

 

[Dr J]

That's what's inevitably going to happen with any country ran on a primarily two-party system. There will always be an "us vs them" mentality whether you're on the left or right

Not necessarily. There is some polarisation, but not nearly to this extent, in Britain because both sides I feel have kind of resigned themselves to the idea that both parties are the fucking same.

That's incidentally the same kind of feeling you get with a Bush v Gore or Clinton v Dole.

 

[COME ON OUT YOU RAPIST]

'Viral' in the sense that exposure to it would make you feel ill.

What Pratt wrote makes him seem either dumb or oblivious to reality... the days of 'can't we all just get along' are over Chris, read the room. For someone in his line of work, it's better to just keep your head down.

This is just a pathetic way to live. People living in third-world conditions in Afghanistan, where offending the religious hierarchy in some trivial way can get you stoned to death without trial, are less into this "never forgive and never forget" mindset than Americans are. Chris Pratt sounds like the only sane voice in Hollywood.

 

[Meth Dick]

Not necessarily. There is some polarisation, but not nearly to this extent, in Britain because both sides I feel have kind of resigned themselves to the idea that both parties are the fucking same.

That's incidentally the same kind of feeling you get with a Bush v Gore or Clinton v Dole.

Bush V Gore and Clinton V Dole might as well have been 100 years ago.
The USA now is not the same USA then. There were always crazy assholes then too, but back then even ardent Bush/Clinton haters could for the most part say "Well, this fucking sucks, but oh well, back to work I go, hope next time works out"
Identity politics has caused irreversible problems for the world and proponents and opponents of it will never let bygones be bygones. Not to sound like a boomer, but I blame social media, especially Twitter, Reddit, and every other online mainstream circlejerk echo chamber for giving every fucking asshole on either side the illusion that their opinions should be heard far and wide and that those opinions actually matter to anyone else. There's no curing this divide when a California liberal can scream and rage at a New York Republican with ease in the snap of a finger on the internet. The only reason identity politics exist in the form it does now is because of the "validity" they receive online.

 

[David Brown]

He played Cringelord in Guardians of the Galaxy right? Fuck that faggot

 

[Dr J]

Bush V Gore and Clinton V Dole might as well have been 100 years ago.
The USA now is not the same USA then.

Yes, but you said the same would happen in any country with a two party system. I used Bush v Gore (or Clinton v Dole) as examples of a situation where you wouldn't get that because both sides are generally apathetic to both political parties. You get exactly the same sentiment in most of Europe and probably Canada as well.

For better or worse, people (both sides) are passionate about Donald Trump. That's why he inspires such strong reactions. If they'd run Ron DeSantis instead you wouldn't get nearly the same level of reaction because neither side particularly cares about their candidate

 

[Neodanthril]

Why does anyone give a shit about the opinion of a person whose job is to play pretend

 

[Meth Dick]

Yes, but you said the same would happen in any country with a two party system. I used Bush v Gore (or Clinton v Dole) as examples of a situation where you wouldn't get that because both sides are generally apathetic to both political parties. You get exactly the same sentiment in most of Europe and probably Canada as well.

For better or worse, people (both sides) are passionate about Donald Trump. That's why he inspires such strong reactions. If they'd run Ron DeSantis instead you wouldn't get nearly the same level of reaction because neither side particularly cares about their candidate

I get what you're trying to say, but American's and Europeans are basically two complete different species in this regard.
Also, if they ran DeSantis the left would continue flipping the fuck out because DeSantis is probably more anti-troon and anti-abortion than Trump is. I don't think there will ever be a normal candidate again Trump v Clinton set the stage for histrionics and now our elections are looked at almost as if they're Super Bowls. I hope I'm wrong and that after Trump's final term there will be normalcy in elections again, but we can kiss that option goodbye if JD Vance decides he wants to run, because that'll just cause more anti-Trump sperging.
That is unless Vance pulls a Pence and backstabs Trump at the end
Either way, we're at the point where there's going to be nothing but vitriol spit at whatever candidate whether it's a D or an R next to their name, because leftists will go into hysterics over any Republican candidate, and the right will poke the reeing faggots for amusement. Both sides are becoming increasingly childish. Just one side are spoiled rotten children and the other side are bully children. But much like with ACTUAL children, the bullies can grow out of it. You can't unspoil a child. At least not these ones.

 

[Dr J]

American's and Europeans are basically two complete different species in this regard.

I disagree. Firstly similar trends. Secondly, even Republicans began to hate Bush by the end of it. Compare the 2004 election to 2024. Americans can be similarly apathetic towards their politics if their candidate doesn't excite them like a Trump or an Obama

 

[Capsaicin Addict]

"Republicans buy shoes too."

This used to be the sensible take for dealing with politics. But nowadays, if you do not adhere to the Narrative, you get a mob whipped up against you.

 

[Caesar]

Complete and utter pratt.

Actually he seems alright I just can't resist a terrible dad joke.

 

[Alter Ego]

Chris Pratt apparently was blissfully unaware that libshits hate his guts.

I have a feeling that Chris Pratt is fully aware of this and his just doing his best to be an amicable Christian in spite of it. The manner in which this article briefly talks about his "surprise" is pretty vague such that it could be that he's just disappointed in people not being receptive to his plea for American unity and kindness.

Oh another note, I'm annoyed at the habit for news articles to have all sorts of hyperlinks yet make it incredibly hard to find the source of the main subject. It took me a bit of work to find that this is the original op-ed by Chris Pratt, actually written just before the election:

https://www.mariashriversundaypaper.com/chris-pratt-op-ed/

https://archive.is/7EdIH

Like so many of us, I’ve been doomscrolling my way through this election season. And I see things from both sides. I understand that people’s lives and rights are on the line. I also see that there are millions of people who feel overlooked and invisible to our government and are desperate for something to change.

You may know me as a Guardian of the Galaxy, but I grew up in small-town America with a mom and dad who worked hard to make ends meet. Our family was poor. I wore hand-me-down clothes. I lived out of my car when I first moved to Los Angeles.

Yet even though my life has drastically changed, I’m trying to make sense of the election through the eyes of Americans on both sides. I’ve been thinking a lot about where we’ll be as a nation on November 6th, how we can attempt to move forward after so much division, and how some of the lessons that sports teach us may be just what all of us need as we chart a course forward.

As a kid, I played just about every sport available to me. In Anchorage, Alaska, I started with T-ball and gymnastics. In Lake Stevens, Washington, I played baseball and tackle football, and I wrestled and ran track and field. To this day, the lessons of resiliency, grit, and good sportsmanship remain strong threads in the fabric of my character. Playing sports taught me how to be part of something bigger than myself. It taught me how to win and lose with grace.

It was a different era. Friday night football games and wrestling matches under the lights were the staple entertainment of small-town living. As a spectator at games and matches, I was primed to participate from an early age. We’d spend the drives home listening to my father recount his glory days. He was an All-State lineman for the Mountain Iron Red Raiders in 1973, the year they won the state championship in Minnesota (don’tcha know?) and boy, he’d tell you about it.

Imagine being at the dinner table, us wide-eyed kids eating the casserole du jour, hanging on dad’s every word. I would peruse his high school yearbook, find the black and white photo of him standing broad as a mountain wearing number 76. All-State tackle, Dan Pratt. He told us kids that the Unocal 76 Gas station in town was actually symbolic of his high school jersey number. I believed that one for way too long, because football was that important.

I was an incredibly sensitive kid, so when I lost on the football field or got pinned on the wrestling mat, I cried. Like, a lot. Even well into my high school years. I didn’t lose all that often but when I did, it devastated me.

One day after getting home from losing a wrestling match, I cried for at least an hour. I looked at myself in the bathroom mirror, tears streaming down my cheeks, and a calm bewilderment came over me. Why was I crying? I decided to stop. Looking back now, I believe it was in that moment that I became a sportsman. In that moment, I understood that losing is part of the game.

I feel as though we live in a time now when so many people have yet to learn that lesson. Sometimes your team doesn’t win. The 2024 presidential election is three days away as I write this. The biggest game of all time approaches. Team Red versus Team Blue. A rematch for the ages. A showdown four years in the making. It’s giving UFC 3Million energy.

Of course, I realize the outcome of a sporting event isn’t the same as the consequences of an election where real lives and livelihoods are at stake. I get that many will read this and think, easy for him to say. But I spent many more years of my life struggling than having money in the bank.

I’m a son. I’m a dad. I love this country. I’m looking for ways to stay connected to my fellow Americans. I also think there are millions out there like me looking to do the same—to find a way to come together after the election, no matter who wins or loses. And I believe sports gives us a playbook to help us get there.

In high school, the greatest part of being on the wrestling team wasn’t that we were state champions in 1997. It was the following week, when our coach forced us to get up early on a Saturday to help an old lady move. Yes, victory was sweet. But as we helped that old lady move, we were part of something bigger than ourselves. We were moving her whether we won or lost.

I write this now because about half of the voting population is going to be incredibly disappointed on November 6th. But for me, the question is not, “Did your candidate win or lose?” but rather, “Will you wake up the next morning and help an old lady move?”

It’s OK to take a moment to lick your wounds when you lose. Heck, go ahead and cry in the mirror. But if we become too paralyzed by defeat or too pompous in victory, allegiance to our “team” can blind us to the fact that we are fellow countrymen.

How do we become a nation of honorable winners and graceful losers? It starts with remembering no matter who wins or loses, there are still going to be people who need help in this country.

Find them. Be of service.

America’s greatness is in the strength of our unified communities. It can be found in our places of worship, Elks clubs, Rotary clubs, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, the Salvation Army, and in our service members. Our strength lies in our people who step across the political aisle not just with the handshake of a good sportsman, but a helping hand to anyone in need.

So, be a good sport. We need you. Our country needs you. Team Red, Team Blue, and Team “Didn’t Even Vote,” too. Your civic duty can be uniquely exercised on November 5th, but there is an even bigger civic duty required the next day: which is to accept the results and focus instead on showing up for each other.

Check in with your neighbor—especially if they voted for the other guy or girl. Ask how they’re doing. See how you can help. And while you’re at it, see if they know any old ladies who need help moving.


Chris Pratt is a father, husband, actor, and producer.

 

[Ewan McGregor]

Oh another note, I'm annoyed at the habit for news articles to have all sorts of hyperlinks yet make it incredibly hard to find the source of the main subject. It took me a bit of work to find that this is the original op-ed by Chris Pratt, actually written just before the election:
https://www.mariashriversundaypaper.com/chris-pratt-op-ed/

They didn't want you to read it, I'd hazard a guess.

BTW, total disappointment on Arnold.

 

[Kid Named Rocket]

>remember liking this guy in The Terminal List
>"damn it's a shame he's probably gonna turn out to be a batshit insane leftist"
>turns out he's actually one of the most normal guys in Hollywood
Color me pleasantly surprised.

 

[TowinKarz]

Twitter, Reddit, and every other online mainstream circlejerk echo chamber for giving every fucking asshole on either side the illusion that their opinions should be heard far and wide and that those opinions actually matter to anyone else. There's no curing this divide when a California liberal can scream and rage at a New York Republican with ease in the snap of a finger on the internet. The only reason identity politics exist in the form it does now is because of the "validity" they receive online.

The problem with social media isn't that it gave everyone a voice, it's that it erroneously made people think that banning/ignoring opposing views made them go away, and that the hugbox they built around them by aggressively weeding out opposing views was a real-world manifestation. Not an artificial condition.

In your example, the problem isn't that the liberal is screaming at the Republican.

It's that said illiberal honestly thinks if they hit "BLOCK" on their user control panel? That Republican has been excluded from society at large.... and their vote and opinoin literally doesn't matter anymore..... not just in a personal conversation, but when it comes to governmental policy as well.

And when that illusion starts to crack? They can only slam that "BLOCK" button harder rather than admit it, until we get to cancel culture and moral panic which is the hill every political movement dies upon, current resident: Progressives.