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Chris Pratt shared more about the first time he received a immense sum of money for his work in Hollywood. As reported by People magazine, he revealed how he spent his entire first acting salary because he didn’t know how to handle money. Pratt is known for his role as Star-Lord in the Marvel Cinematic Universe starting from Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) and starred as Owen Grady in Jurassic World trilogy (2015-2022). When asked if his humble beginnings made him have trouble spending money, A movie about Garfield the star revealed that in his case it was the opposite.
“Oh no. No no. “I felt like I would never run out of money,” the former waiter said, then laughed. “The first paycheck I got, I thought, ‘Are you grave?’ I lived on very little money for a long time, so the first large job I got… was a TV movie for which I got paid $75,000.”
The star told how he ran out of money within two months and realized he had blown it all.
“I thought, ‘I’ll never wait again…, I’m leaving,’” he sang. “And about two months later I thought, ‘Where did the money go?’
Chris Pratt said he spent the money going on vacation to various parts of the world such as Hawaii and Australia. “I thought, ‘Well, I’ll probably invest. I’ll probably buy a yacht.”
Pratt said he was never told about proper financial planning at a teenage age, so he doesn’t know how to handle or manage money.
“It took me a long time to stop and say, ‘Okay, I need to smarten up. I have to think ‘What should I do? How do I get to the point? and where if one day I stop working, everything will still be fine? My family will be fine,” he continued.
He added that developing a financial plan later in his life was “one of the stages of my growing up.”
Jurassic World The star also said that while the moments in his career where he felt he “made it” included winning a SAG card and a TV commercial for Carl’s Jr., while buying his mother Kathy Pratt a house after appearing on Everwood was his proudest moment “I did it,” reports People magazine.
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