Chris Pratt says that because he did not grow up wealthy, he blew through his first big acting paycheck in a very short amount of time.
Chris Pratt had to make some adjustments when he started becoming a successful actor. While Pratt is one of today's biggest movie stars, leading franchises like 'Jurassic World' and 'Guardians of the Galaxy,' he did not always know how to handle money, to the point that when he got his first big paycheck, he squandered it all in a matter of weeks.
The first paycheck I got, I was like ‘Are you serious?’' he remembered. He also said that with that check, he was 'under the impression that I would never run out of money.' He continued, 'I had lived on very little money for a long time, so the first big job I got … this was a TV movie, I got paid $75,000.
The 'Parks and Recreation' star said that his family 'never had any money' when he was a kid, and because of that, he never learned 'financial literacy.' 'I didn't know what to do with money,' Pratt admitted. 'It was like it would come in, I would spend it. It took a good amount of time for me to kind of stop and say, ‘All right, I gotta get wise about this.
Since then, he has enjoyed a wildly successful career, even marrying into Hollywood royalty in 2019 when he wed Katherine Schwarzenegger. The couple shares two children, and he also has a son from his first marriage to actress Anna Faris.
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