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RASHIDA JONES & CHRIS PRATT

PARKS AND RECREATION
by: Lisa Steinberg

Featured Interviews
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Q.  I wanted to ask Chris, starting off with you, a little bit about were you worried when your character

broke up with Ann or when Anndumped your character rather?

 

Rashida Jones:  Yeah, come on, seriously.

 

Q.  I should say it more specifically, were you a little worried about what that meant for the fate of - for

you on the show because I know this season you're promoted to I believe series regular but were you

a little worried that you - what would happen with your character onceyou guys broke up?

 

Chris Pratt:  Yeah. I thought that there was a chance I wouldn't be coming back and I was, you know,

on the sort of - I was a little worried. You know, but, going into it that was always - I always knew that

that could be the - that could possibly the case is that, you know, they don't have to bring me back. It

was sort of originally I think intended as - in that six episode arc.

 

And then I was delighted to find out that they, you know, found room for me on the cast for the second

season. So I was a little worried but it wasn't - but I came into it knowing that there was a potential for

me not comingback in the second season.

 

Q.  And will we see anything happening for you romance-wise now that you're on the scene single on Parks and Recreation? Will you get -

will your character get any romance?

 

Chris Pratt:  I, you know, I think that Andy's undying devotion towards Ann is one of the only thing that sort of redeems him so I hope not.

I hope that he just keeps pining after Ann for ten seasons to come. That would be the best for me.

 

Q.  And Rashida, for you, were you - just a little bit about what you felt when you had your character like Ann with this relationship with

Andy - were you kind of rooting for her to, you know, break up with him and find - you know, did you get involved in that like that - what

would happen for her and her really wanting - wanting her to move on from this relationship? As funny as it was it didn't seem that healthy.

 

Rashida Jones:  Right. Well character-wise, you know, objectively as a spectator of the show...

 

Q.  Yeah.

 

Rashida Jones:  ...I don't and did not want Andy to go anywhere because Chris Pratt is the loveliest person in the world but also he's so

great and hilarious on the show that we would, you know, it would just not be the same without him.

 

So that being said Ann - as Ann, yes, I think that her need to coddle a grown man is not a healthy situation for her. And it was probably

good for her to get out of that but I do think that there's still, you know, I think that's part of her nature and I think that there's still love there

even though he's crazy and he's stalking her.

 

Q.  Now Rashida you have great comedic timing; is it something you find has come natural to you or have you had to work at it?

 

Rashida Jones:  Well thank you, that's nice. I mean I think I've kind of been in the best - I've gotten the best boot camp between the last

couple jobs that I've had. But I would hope - I would like to think that maybe, you know, maybe I have something to do with it but I think

that that's something you can cultivate and get better at over time when you're surrounded by experts and I have been so that's been very

helpful.

 

Q.  And Chris you were on Everwood for such a long time, what made you want to get back into the TV field?

 

Chris Pratt:  Honestly I always wanted to be in the TV field I was just sort of waiting for someone to hire me, you know, that's kind of how

- you know, actually, no, I think the truth of the matter is I - after doing Everwood I was sort of resigned to trying to build a movie career

and I think that happens sometimes to actors, they do TV and they say, you know, make a little money that they put aside and they don't

have to necessarily take every job that comes.

 

So it's like after that I was like you know what I'm not going to do TV for a while, I'm going to see if I can do some movies. And I farted

around with a couple movies and then this project came along and I was like wow, I said that maybe I wouldn't do TV but this is like

cooler than any movie I've been a part of so I'm totally in, you know what I mean?

 

It just took a really, really awesome - project...and that what this has been so.

 

Q.  And just quickly last time your character showed up at Ann's house completely naked; was that all you or were you socking it?

 

Chris Pratt:  Rashida.

 

Rashida Jones:  No, they have those little - those really unappealing little dance belts that were uncomfortable for Chris Pratt.

 

Chris Pratt:  Yes. Yeah, they're little, yeah, they're...

 

Rashida Jones:  And more uncomfortable for us.

 

Chris Pratt:  Yeah, it was - let's just say there was a dance belt included and it was all - and it was uncomfortable. They kind of just are

these little things that cover up your junk and - but it was almost as if I was wearing nothing at all. Yeah.

 

Q.  I'm good actually. So I just want to know a little bit about maybe you guys' like childhood park memories. Were you like a monkey

bars kind of kid? Did you get dirty in the sandbox? What was the deal?

 

Rashida Jones:  My best friend when I was seven years old we were going down this really rickety slide, this is also a good reason to have

a Parks and Recreation Department because that slide desperately needed to be changed out for new ones.

 

She was like just go you're being a wimp. But it was like, you know, it was like kind of - not rotting - rusting over and it was just like

wooden, there was like splinters everywhere. She pushed me down the slide; my foot got caught on the bottom of it and the bottom of my

foot like ripped open.

 

Q.  Needless to say not your best friend for too much longer.

 

Rashida Jones:  Yeah, no, no, no. Yeah, we had a moment where we didn't talk.

 

Q.  Oh my gosh. Now what about you Chris? Any crazy park memories?

 

Chris Pratt:  Gosh nothing that good. I, you know, we had, yeah well, you know, I grew up in a town with a lake in it and there were a

couple of, you know, community beach style I guess park style beaches. And, you know, I would spend time there in the summer.

 

And parks are good for families that don't have a lot of money growing up because it's like free, you know. So I would go to that beach a

lot and, you know, I think I caught a - oh I caught a duck once that was pretty cool.  With my bare hands. And then it scratched me and

then I let it go. But, yeah, nothing really that great comes to mind. I'm sorry.

 

Q.  No, no, no, that's good, ducks and crazy slide incidents are good. So I also wanted to ask you guys, you know, how you kind of relate

to your, you know, respective characters like Chris are you anything like Andy because Andy is pretty intense.

 

Chris Pratt:  You know, gosh, I feel like there are elements of Andy, I mean, there are elements of Andy that are like myself. I think it's just

sort of taken a microscope and putting it on to certain elements of myself and allowing all the reasonable sensible things about myself to sort

of fall by the wayside.

 

You know, I can be sort of childish and goofy and like you said intense. You know, I can be all of the things that Andy is but, you know, I

think I have a little bit better sense than he does and I'm a little more in touch with reality but there were definitely moments in my life when I

was younger where I'd obsess over somebody and be in love with them and be absolutely confident in the idea that they too would love me

back even though they didn't, you know what I mean?

 

There's a little bit of that in there. But I think you draw on moments from your life or try to make it real for yourself somehow just by the

fact that it doesn't seem like it could be. I think, you know, you try to make all those moments even when he's the most delusional still

somehow seem very real. And you do that by kind of believing what is he supposed to believe, you know.

 

Q.  Definitely. Rashida what about you with your character?

 

Rashida Jones:  I would agree with Chris. I pull out certain elements about my own personality. I would like to think that I'm not as much of

- as much of a doormat as Ann was at the beginning of the show.

 

But I do relate to the concept of becoming friends with somebody who isn't like off the bat seemingly the person that you should be friends

with or that you would think you'd be friends with and is maybe a tiny bit nutty but really seeing their heart and that their intentions are good

and wanting to, you know, go further with that friendship meaning Leslie. I think that that's very similar to my personality.

 

Q.  So Chris, my first question is for you is basically what's next for Andy? Is he finally going to get a job and his own place that's not a pit?

 

Chris Pratt:  Yeah, yeah, they've, yeah, the writers have found a nice way for Andy to get out of the pit and get a job and

start sort of like, you know, working his way up into, you know, an independence - I don't know - would it be too much of a spoiler

Rashida...

 

Rashida Jones:  Yeah, don't tell, don't tell.

 

Chris Pratt:  Okay I can't tell you. I can't tell you but I will tell you that he, yeah, he gets a job and you'll see more.

 

Q.  Okay. I've actually seen the Halloween episode.

 

Rashida Jones:   Okay.

 

Chris Pratt:  Oh...

 

Rashida Jones:  Well that's the first step in a longer - the independence of Andy.

 

Chris Pratt:  Yeah, that's right, yeah, that's right.

 

Q.  Okay great, great. So Rashida, do you think that Ann and Andy will ever get back to together?

 

Rashida Jones:  You know, I don't think it's an impossibility. Like I said I think there's still love in Ann's heart for Andy. I mean I think so

much would have to change, you know, for his - him to be okay with her. But I don't think it's an impossibility.

 

Q.  Do you like your characters better together or apart?

 

Rashida Jones:  I think there's - I think there's a lot of comedy both ways. I mean, I like this - I like this particular paradigm; I think it's

really funny because I just think Chris gets to shine a lot here and do something with, you know, something that could potentially seem

really kind of cartoony and big which is like him, you know, showing up places and pretending to be casual about seeing me and all that.

 

But he manages to make it kind of realistic and really sweet. So I like this dynamic for now.

 

Q.  So Rashida I just wanted to know - well we all kind of want to know, so you studied philosophy and religion at Harvard. So how does

that bring you to shows like the Office and Parks and Recreation? Like what kind of brought you to comedy?

 

Rashida Jones:  I use my degree in my work every day. No I'm just kidding. I don't know. I have no idea. I mean, that was just what I was

interested in when I was 17 which is when I had to pick what I was going to study at school. I did a lot of theater in school. I thought

maybe I wanted to go to law school or be a judge or a politician.

 

And then I just kind of got smitten by the process of rehearsal and working with other actors and those kinds of challenges. And then

comedy, I don't know, I mean, one of my first big jobs when I moved to LA was I was a guest on Freaks and Geeks and it was like one of

the first moments being an actress where I was like oh this is like exactly the kind of thing I would want to do with my life.

 

And it wasn't necessarily comedy or drama it was just a certain sensibility. And I feel like the Office and Parks have a similar sensibility

which is a dedication to reality and a dedication to the comedy that comes out of that reality.

 

Q.  Okay.

 

Rashida Jones:  And luckily people keep giving me jobs - keep giving me jobs that are so a lot of it is luck.

 

Q.  So also, you know, just a question again for you, Rashida, or both of you so, you know, we want to know does Amy bring her baby to

the set or does Will Arnett visit the set?

 

Rashida Jones:  Yes and yes and thank God for us. They're the cutest.

 

Q.  Wonderful.

 

Rashida Jones:  So cute.

 

Q.  So Chris you just recently got married to Anna Faris, how do you juggle a hit TV show and an amazing new marriage?

 

Chris Pratt:  How do I - it's so funny that right when you said that Anna came in with a cup of coffee and a protein shake. It's really...you

know, isn't that what the question is honey? How do I juggle a hit TV show and a beautiful famous wife?  I'll tell you it's super hard, she's a

total pain in the ass all the time. No I'm joking. I don't know, I feel like, I, you know, it's (unintelligible). Thank you so much. It's also - I

don't know it's like - I'm - it doesn't hurt that, you know, the show is - being on a show that's a hit like this it's not - you end up spending a

lot of time on set and it is physically a lot of work but it doesn’t - it's not like digging ditches for 16 hours a day...

 

Q.  Right.

 

Chris Pratt:  It's a blast. We have a lot of fun on set. I look forward to going to work every single day. I love everybody I work with.

Becoming close friends with all the cast members. There's not a single A-hole on the set. It's just a dream job and then it's the same thing

coming home, I mean, it's not so much a juggle as it is - I don't know - there's got to be a different word for it because it's just - I feel super

lucky in both and just kind of want to embrace both things because it's like, you know, a dream in both respects.

 

Q.  I remember when Hawaii 5-0 was on TV and when the Streets of San Francisco was on TV and they used to say that those shows

were better PR for travel industry in those cities than anything that PR agencies could cook up even though every episode had vicious

crimes and killers and drug dealers and all that.

 

Is Parks and Recreation doing the same thing for Pawnee?

 

Rashida Jones:  Well besides the fact that it's a fictional town yes. I think Pawnee is going to have its best tourism season yet. Maybe

Indiana though, maybe Indiana and maybe just like local government buildings, offices maybe giving it a really kind of sexy rap.

 

Q.  That works for me. And Chris, regarding the episode with the black dot covering your junk, I was - wouldn't it just be simpler if Andy

walked in naked, I mean, with a big giant black dot over his junk and just save everybody the effort of superimposing a black dot on you?

 

Chris Pratt:  The truth is actually that big black dot is to cover up an organic big black dot that I do have. So that's - there is actually - it

was his - I think otherwise they'd just show me in the buff but it's just really uncomfortable because it's like - I think it's a - it's like one of

those weird moles. You know what? I think it would - I think that would save some time.

 

And I don't know if I'm going to be much - any more nudity though but if I do I'm going to bring that up.

 

Q.  I want to know about a name I keep seeing in the opening credits, now is (Norm Hiscock) a real guy or is this somebody that's like a

bunch of people writing an episode or is this an inside joke?

 

Rashida Jones:  Nope that's his name. He's a wonderful writer. He's Canadian and that's his name.

 

Chris Pratt:  Yep.

 

Q.  Okay because we laugh at that every time we see the show start. Now I want to know how often did they make you crawl into this pit

Chris? And how hard was it as an actor to have to keep doing this throughout the series up until the last episode?

 

Chris Pratt:  You know, I was in there lot but I feel like - I'm game for that kind of stuff. I think that kind of stuff is really fun. Like, you

know, I've fallen and done these, you know, Pratt falls which is kind of funny - well I say Pratt - but Pratt falls and falling down and hurting

myself and falling down some stairs and rolling on the ground and diving over bushes like it's sort of - I'm lucky that there's a sort of, you

know, element to physical comedy with Andy's kind of big over the top stuff.

 

And I really like that. I'm down for it. And in fact I think the fact that - the reason I'm doing it so much is because I tend to like it so much; I

think they're sort of catering towards that, you know what I mean, like wow what are we going to do with - I don't know let's drop him off

a building in this episode.

 

I'm down in that pit a lot. And I'm glad now that it's filled because it was pretty nasty down there. I mean it's a real pit out in the valley, you

know, out in the middle of nowhere and it's hot and dusty and it stinks a little bit. So I'd be down there a lot and I'm happy to have that

chapter closed. But at the time I was game.

 

Q.  And I haven't seen the Halloween episode but obviously you were talking about how he - the pit's filled in so is he - where is he going

to wind up? Is that something we see in the Halloween episode as far as...

 

Chris Pratt:  Yeah, I mean, he's not, you don't - I'm trying to think. He basically - he ends up - he's in the episode. I don't want to give it

away. Yeah, you'll be able to know. By watching the Halloween episode you sort of get an idea of where Andy's going to be going with his

life now.

 

Q.  I know when the show first premiered the critics were a little bit mixed on it but now everybody seems to be really high on the show.

Did you kind of feel that coming into the filming for Season 2 that maybe things were a little sharper or just that things were clicking a little

more? What do you think?

 

Rashida Jones:  You know what? It just takes time. I mean, I think, you know, for the actors, for the writers, for the audience you just need

some time to settle into what the characters actually are and what's funny about their dynamics. And, you know, I'm super grateful that

people gave us a shot to get there but I definitely think it takes about 10 episodes to even know what anything is, you know.

 

I mean, you watch some early Seinfeld, you watch some early Sex in the City, it's nothing like the show turned out to be; the things that

people loved about that show did not exist at the beginning of that show, you know.

 

Q.  Yeah I agree. Chris, what do you think?

 

Chris Pratt:  Yeah, I mean I think - I felt like - I've noticed that, I mean, as fan of the show I've seen it get better and better and working on

it I've noticed the scripts coming down the pipes have gotten better but it kind of goes back to what Rashida said just it takes time for

everybody.

 

And especially with a show like ours, even more so than like something that's a, you know, a half hour, you know, live studio audience type

of a sit come format with a laugh track. This is a fake documentary and it's a, you know, it's a little bit - there's the Office and then there's

all the (unintelligible) stuff but for like a half-hour TV show there's the office and not really much else to compare it to.

 

So it's a little new for people, you know, and the jokes are a little different. You can't - you can't have a laugh track that sort of tells the

audience when to laugh and, you know, it's difficult to find those moments. But I noticed that all the scripts coming down the pipes this year

I was laughing out loud a lot more when reading them.

 

And I think it's just a matter of sort of finding the sensibilities to all the characters and starting with Amy, you know, I think a lot of people

compared Steve Carell to Ricky Gervais from the office when they first started the American version of the Office. But it's just - he's a

different style of comedy and stuff. And maybe they were writing to - for Steve the way they did for Ricky Gervais.

 

And maybe in the beginning they were writing for Amy the way that they wrote for Steve Carell but she's a little - she's - her comedic

sensibility is a little different. Maybe she's, you know, it's not that funny to watch her be uncomfortable the way it is with Steve Carell but

it's so God damned endearing when she smiles.

 

And so, you know, you see her and when she's enjoying herself so is the audience. And you see her doing that a lot more now kind of just

becoming comfortable in - it's been written in a way that she's becoming more comfortable as who she is and like the episode with the

beauty pageant she's standing up for sort of the, you know, women's rights.

 

And she's just like, you're seeing more dimensions of her. And maybe it's always been who they've envisioned her to be or maybe they're

figuring it out but I sure like that - that Leslie a lot more in the second season. I just enjoy watching her more and I think that's starting to

happen with all the characters.

  

Q.  I wanted to know which episode is your favorite each of you?

 

Rashida Jones:  I think selfishly I really enjoyed Practice Date. It was fun to be able to do something, you know, I generally tend to be the

voice of reason; it was nice to be able to be like the shit starter a little bit. Sorry to use that language but it was nice to like be the - create

the action a little bit.

 

And I just also thought that was such a well constructed episode on - I love the game that they were playing with each other about finding

the deep dark secrets in their past and I...

 

Chris Pratt:  That was a really, really good episode.

 

Rashida Jones:  So funny. And Amy was just absolutely adorable, that scene where she shows up drunk at (Dave)'s house is incredible. I

would say that one so far but I have to say every episode I like better and better and better. I just saw Ron and Tammy it's like the best

thing I've ever seen in my life; it's so good. So I don't know.

 

Chris Pratt:  Yeah, yeah, I like that episode a lot because - I like that. So - I like them all, you know, I mean and also it was pretty cool to

- again it's like Rashida said from the selfish angle the finale of last year when I got to be like - in rock star fantasy camp for a week and like

be on stage singing into a mic with a guitar and having 150 extras paid to cheer for me; that was pretty rad both shooting and watching it.

 

Rashida Jones:  That's rock - rock show?  That's such a good episode. I loved that episode.

 

Chris Pratt:  That was cool, that was - they are getting a lot better. I'm starting to like them more and more. I think we're finding our timing

and like Rashida said it takes about maybe ten episodes to figure out where you're at. And we did six episodes in the first season and then I

think, you know, by Episode 5 this season I feel like we've been just kind of like connecting, you know, on - it's like we're just - we're just

connecting left, right, left, right before long and (unintelligible).

 

God, can I just hang up now?

  

Q.  Is there any chance that either Ann or Andy will get their own offshoot Website?

 

Rashida Jones:  I would say Andy has more of a chance than Ann. I don't know what boring Website boring-ass Website Ann would have

where she like talks about like different - slightly different variations of the color blue in her scrubs, I don't know what...

 

Chris Pratt:  You know what it could be? It could be the patients who have a crush on Ann the nurse Website and it'll just be people who

sign in who went to the hospital and had a crush on their nurse.

 

Rashida Jones:  That's sweet - you're sweet Pratt.

 

Chris Pratt:  Yeah, so I don't know. You know I think that - I think Andy has a scarecrow boat Website.

 

Rashida Jones:  Yeah he does - you do.

 

Chris Pratt:  Which is the band - it's just on the NBC - it's on the nbc.com Website scarecrow boat and it's basically just a list of our band

names or something.

 

Q.  I have a question about how Parks and Recreation is kind of - looking at the Office and looking at Parks and Recreation with both

being in that documentary style of comedy show and Office deals with middle class workers and Parks and Rec is dealing with a

commentary on public office on a very small relatable scale for, I mean, everybody can relate to their, you know, their local government.

 

How do you think the show is going to expand on that and possibly balloon out and cover maybe a state level or are there plans to kind of

expand it in later seasons looking into the future?

 

Rashida Jones:  You know, I don't know for sure because, you know, the writers are breaking all types of options of stories up there. But I

do think that they're considering how to expand it, you know, like how to keep including, you know, new elements into it because why not?

You know. But look, I mean, the Office has survived what is it now in its sixth season?

 

And it's literally in an Office and yeah they go on like these field trips or these (unintelligible) are a little bit out of the office but it's incredible

to be able to create that many hundreds of storylines in like a, you know, middle management office. And hopefully we'll have similar

success where we can continue to draw interesting stories out of something that might be, you know, a tiny bit myopic or expand a little bit,

you know.

 

Chris Pratt:  Yeah.

 

Q.  And are there any of the show subplots or main plots that are based on events that have happened in different cities and towns in real

life?

 

Rashida Jones:  Well the initial - like the macro plot of the pit - when the producers went to do research in this little city in California there

was a park there and from the time they thought about building the park to the time that they opened the park and cut the ribbon it was 17

years.

 

Q.  Oh my gosh.

 

Rashida Jones:  So that was the main inspiration, yes...was based in reality.

 

Chris Pratt:  So...

 

Rashida Jones:  We did better by the way.

 

Chris Pratt:  Look forward to Episode 17 or Season 17 when we finally...

 

Rashida Jones:  No we pulled it in. Yeah, because there's no park yet, yeah, exactly, look forward to Season 17.

 

Q.  My first question is kind of a direct question for both of you so when you guys were getting ready and preparing for your character at

the beginning of this show were there any like comedic inspiration that you took like direction from? Was there someone on the show or is

there someone like an old comedian that you would look to?

 

Chris Pratt:  Oh well...

 

Rashida Jones:  Chris?

 

Chris Pratt:  You know, I - when I first read the material for the audition and I was - and I think I was one of the last people to get cast

probably I think right?

 

Rashida Jones:  No.

 

Chris Pratt:  No? Well when, okay, well I mean I know that when I read the material for the audition it was basically - I got the idea that

the guy was a total slacker, didn't really care about how he looked and was a musician. And kind of - basically kind of a boob, you know.

 

And so I stayed up the whole night before drinking and with only a couple of hours sleep walked into the audition in the same clothes that I

had worn the night before and allowed myself to be like kind of stinky and a little hung over and just kind of like a boob, you know.

 

And I think that I - when I walked out they were probably like wow, that guy is really good, you know, he really commits but it was just a

matter of sort of allowing myself to let go a little bit and so that - I just drew on - I just drew on, you know, the element of this guy, this,

you know, this is probably how Andy would go into an audition; he wouldn't be all that prepared and he would just be stinky and a little

hung over and so that's what I did.

 

Rashida Jones:  Wow, I don't have that kind of story at all. I did like your plaid shirt Pratt.

 

Chris Pratt:  Oh yeah...

 

Rashida Jones:  On your stinky day, on your audition.

 

Chris Pratt:  Oh right, well no that was my second audition.

 

Rashida Jones:  Oh okay. Were you drunk then?

 

Chris Pratt:  I wasn't drunk. I wasn't drunk.

 

Rashida Jones:  Oh sorry, hung over - hung over.

 

Chris Pratt:  I was probably.

 

Rashida Jones:  Sweet, sweet.

 

Chris Pratt:  Yeah.

 

Rashida Jones:  You know, I - for me it was more - at the beginning it was about really just ciphering this character from - my character in

the Office, working with the same people and trying to like carve out something a little bit different. But, you know, I have - I have a lot of

comic icons, you know, Goldie Hawn, Terri Garr.

 

And what I love so much about those women is that they could - Debra Winger - is that they can - they create comedy within realistic

situations. I know I said some of this before but they - but there's just a natural - naturalistic thing about their acting and that's what's funny.

 

And being the straight guy role you kind of have to do that, you know, you kind of have to like try to bring some depth to the character so

that, you know, all the other characters that are floating around and being nuts like, you know, you're like tethering them a little bit.

 

But, you know, again like I said it's such a process and hopefully, you know, we're getting it and we're moving forward but I think that -

originally that was sort of like I was just trying to be naturalistic and find the comedy in that.

 

Q.  So my next question is also kind of a joint question for both of you I guess. So you guys talked about your characters and how maybe

you're similar or you're different but is there anyone on the show who you could say is most like their character, you know, is Aziz Ansari

really anything like Tom or (unintelligible) or what?

 

Chris Pratt:  I don't...

 

Rashida Jones:  What do you think Chris?

 

Chris Pratt:  I mean no, I don't think, I mean like I don't think there's - like if - no I mean.

 

Rashida Jones:  Nobody is really.

 

Chris Pratt:  I don't think anybody is.

 

Rashida Jones:  No.

 

Chris Pratt:  I don't think anybody's like...

 

Rashida Jones:  Nobody is.

 

Chris Pratt:  Like my in-laws came to visit set and I think cadence wise and voice wise Nick Offerman, you might...think that he's putting

on a voice when he talks and he is a little bit. But when you talk to him just regularly he's sort of thoughtful and kind of does the same thing

that he does with Ron. And so that might surprise you to meet Nick and know that - oh no that's not even true because he has created

something really spectacular that he does. I don't think there's anyone that's similar to their character. I don't know.

 

Rashida Jones:  Everybody's like definitely like a little bit cooler than their characters you know what I mean, they're like...

 

Chris Pratt:  Oh yeah.

 

Rashida Jones:  They're more grounded than their characters.

 

Chris Pratt:  Yeah. Yeah, I mean, maybe Jerry? Maybe Jim, you know, because he kind of - he sort of plays the whipping boy a little bit,

Jim plays - he plays Jerry and he might be similar because he's just sort of like - he's a really earnest nice Midwestern kind of guy, really

sweet.

 

And he plays that on the show but the comedy lies in that for some reason everybody hates him and it's just like God why would you hate -

you know what I mean like there's no reason why anyone would ever hate Jim if you meet him. But they seem to hate Jerry on the show.

And I think that's where the comedy lies so maybe he's the most similar because he's just like, you know, plays everything pretty straight.

Otherwise I don't know. Yeah.

 


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