Chris Pratt balancing 'Passengers' reshoots with first fantasy football draft
The 2016 fantasy football season is upon us, and that means millions of people across America are preparing for the most glorious day of the year -- Draft Day. Chris Pratt is one of those people.
The Guardians of the Galaxy star has joined his very first fantasy football league, and it's a doozy, folks!
Pratt's wife, Anna Faris, revealed on her podcast "Anna Faris Is Unqualified" that her hubby is joining fellow Marvel heroes Chris Evans and Anthony Mackie as well as John Krasinski in the celebrity league.
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Faris also let slip that Pratt is currently in Atlanta doing reshoots for Passengers, his sci-fi movie with Jennifer Lawrence that hits theaters in December. Before you start to worry, know that reshoots are par for the course on every big-budget movie, and aren't necessarily indicative of a problem. In fact, reshoots just mean a studio feels so confident about a movie, it's willing to put in more money to help make it the best it can be. So don't believe all those negative headlines about Rogue One.
Faris had ESPN's Matthew Berry on her podcast, where the fantasy guru offered to personally coach Pratt through his draft debut.
"Matthew, listen, he would love that. I know he was so bummed that he couldn't talk to you today. He's doing reshoots for Passengers," said Faris, who said she's "sort of getting into" fantasy football herself.
Pratt is a Seattle Seahawks fan and he has experience doing battle with Evans, as he apparently lost a substantial amount of money to the Captain America star on a Seahawks-Patriots game. Evans, of course, hails from New England, and teamed with fellow Patriots fan Krasinski to recruit Pratt.
The stakes for the A-list league are unknown, but you can bet they're high. "They've put up a little bit more money than my husband wants to tell me," said Faris, who declined to ask Pratt about the buy-in.
Berry warned that he knows Krasinski a little bit and that he's "a ringer," so Pratt should be careful. Well it just so happens that I know Mackie a (very) little bit, and he's no slouch himself when it comes to having keen insight on the NFL.
Guys, if you need another Pats fan to join your league, just let me know. I may have to launch a Kickstarter campaign to cover the buy-in since I'm not paid like a superhero, but I have a feeling Marvel fans would rally to support Joe Everyman. Hey, that sounds like a cool new Avenger ...
