Chris Pratt has provided some insight into the character of Peter Quill and his issues with being ‘lost’ ahead of the release of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 as he prepares for the franchise’s last installment.
The leader and captain of everyone’s favourite band of misfits, which also includes Rocket Raccoon (Bradley Cooper), the stoic Groot (Vin Diesel), Drax the Destroyer (Dave Bautista), Mantis (Pom Klementieff), and a reformed Nebula (Karen Gillan), has been through a lot.
With his mother’s death during his adolescence on Earth, his kidnapping as a youngster by Yondu Udonta and the Ravagers, the establishment of the Guardians, his bond with Gamora (Zoe Saldana), and learning in Vol. 2 that Ego (Jeff Bridges) was his biological father, Quill has had a lot to deal with.
Pratt, 43, though, sees it all as part of his character’s path of self-discovery.
‘He’s lost. He’s definitely lost,’ the star told Metro.co.uk and other journalists during the global press conference for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3.
‘There’s a wonderful monologue that Bautista gives that comes from Mantis that Quill is a guy who needs to learn how to swim. He’s been hopping from lily pad to lily pad, woman to woman, relationship to relationship… I think that’s a pretty human condition.
‘Oftentimes we find ourselves in our relationships or in the affiliations we have with a team or a family – and he has been lost.’
He added: ‘In the beginning he was running away from the death of his mother, but he got to pretend to be this character based on these pop culture icons of his childhood of the late ’80s. He was dancing around, but all of that was really [just that] he had found himself there, but it was kind of BS.
‘Then he found himself with the Guardians of the Galaxy, and then he thought he could find himself with who his father was.
‘He’s a guy who’s constantly been searching for who he is, and then he found it again in his relationship with Gamora. When that is stripped away from him, he’s the guy who’s realising that all of these various people that he’s found that are Quill, none of them have been the real him.’
Quill lost his romantic connection with Gamora after she was sacrificed by her adoptive father Thanos for the soul stone in Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame. The Gamora we encounter in Vol. 3 is an earlier version of the character from 2014, prior to her time with Quill and the Guardians, who Thanos has transported forward in time to the current day.
‘He’s lost, and that probably does mean that he’s sad,’ Pratt reasoned.
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 finds the gang returning to protect the cosmos as well as one of their own, Rocket, who is in grave danger.
The film also introduces a terrifying new villain, the High Evolutionary (Chukwudi Iwuji), who has gruesome links to Rocket’s mysterious past, as well as Will Poulter as Adam Warlock, who was created as a perfect Sovereign by High Priestess Ayesha (Elizabeth Debicki) with the intent of helping her destroy the Guardians.
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 hits UK cinemas on Wednesday May 3.
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