Chris Pratt loves to hunt.
The internet mob does not love that Chris Pratt loves to hunt – but we’ll get to that in a minute.
In the following clip, Chris Pratt gets deep and philosophical on all the beauties of hunting and what comes with it:
“You sit in a spot, and your preparation has told you that this is the right spot, and the sun comes up and you are in camouflage and nothing knows you’re there. You’re a voyeur to the world waking up, and the wilderness waking up around you in a way that no one gets to see it when they drive their car down the road because they disturbed it.
If a tree fell in the woods and didn’t make a sound, you’d be there to witness it. There’s nobody there, you’re not even there… the stars go away and whole world comes alive. Most of the time you don’t get anything. It’s not about the kill, it’s about the journey of being there and the work that goes in.”
There’s an inevitable remorse that you feel… you feel that, but it gives way almost immediately to this grace, this thankfulness for it. And that’s when the work starts. You have 600-700 pounds of meat laying on the forest floor and it needs to turn into little bags of meat in your freezer, you just lose yourself in it.”
Fellow-actor Kevin Pollak replied:
“I’ve never heard it articulated like that – that’s pretty spectacular, if not romantic.”
If you pay any attention to Hollywood these days, you know there are very few celebrities who actively hunt, let alone talk about it freely in such a emotional way. Take the two minutes, and enjoy this masterclass on why hunting is so special for those doing it the right way:
And of course… the internet lost its mind because Chris Pratt loves to hunt.
Back in 2018, Pratt shared the now-deleted Instagram video showing his excitement for elk hunting season.
Here were some of the comments:
“I am a fan of yours. I like your movies, you’re funny. But I didn’t know you were a hunter… know this won’t matter to you or anyone else one bit, but I won’t be following you anymore nor will I pay to see any of your movies.”
“I’m so disappointed that you hunt.”
“You shoot defenseless animals with high-powered rifles? OK. You’ve gone down in my estimations. Shame.”
“No! Unfollowing with a heavy heart.”
“Feel sick at the thought of you taking an animal’s life.”
We don’t have to get into this nonsense, as people don’t seem to realize the preparation Pratt puts into his hunts, and that he has immense respect for the animal (including eating it, of course). Years prior, Pratt sat down with The Guardian, and went into further detail.
“I have a great deal of respect for the animals that I kill, and I feel remorse and all of the emotions that come with it.”
He added:
“The thing inside me that drives me to go out and hunt is very animal. But the remorse, emotion and respect I feel, and the closeness to God that I feel when I’m out there, is my humanity. It’s an opportunity for me to explore what parts of me are animal and what parts of me are human.”
Joe Rogan has even weighed in multiple times on the backlash Chris Pratt receives:
“Chris Pratt is a nice guy.”
He als0 weighed in on Chris Pratt’s Hunting Controversy:
Uh oh… he fishes too.
