Actor Chris Pratt should win an Oscar for his cringeworthy Hong Kong performance – we get it, you like luggage
- Katherine Schwarzenegger’s husband is the spokesman for luggage brand Tumi – and he made that very, very clear during a recent trip to Hong Kong
- Journalists were told they could not ask Pratt about Avengers or his personal life, leaving him to just talk about, well, bags
Chris Pratt wants you to know all about his unusually large collection of suitcases – and little else. The American actor completed a flying visit to Hong Kong in April as spokesman for luggage brand Tumi.
Despite the release of the colossally successful Avengers: Endgame days before his press conference, he wasn’t prepared to answer questions about the film, his personal life – especially his then upcoming wedding to Katherine Schwarzenegger – or anything that wasn’t relevant to luggage.
The actor has had a slow-burning career featuring diverse roles. He’s spent years playing likeable man-children, like his turn as Andy in NBC’s cult series Parks and Recreation, which earned him a reputation as a friendly goofball with a slightly doughy physique – hardly your archetypal leading man.
However, his appearance in three successive films nominated for best picture at the Oscars showed his serious acting chops, and his intense dedication to roles and ability to improvise impressed high-calibre directors. Eventually, Hollywood embraced him as a new kind of relatable lead who can bulk up for a role, but then admit that he hits the beer and cake as soon as filming has wrapped.
Over the years, he has lost the weight, but not his affableness, retaining his reputation as one of the film industry’s most bankable and down-to-earth faces.