One of the many successful franchises he is currently attached to is the guardians of the galaxy series within the MCU – the third film of which is released this Friday, May 5.
You could say that at this point, Chris is a major player in the MCU – but in a recent appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!the actor revealed that he almost entirely gave up on his Marvel dreams earlier in his career.
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Chris revealed that he auditioned to appear in one of Thor movies – but not like you think. “I auditioned for Thorbut not even to be Thor – but to be one of the sidekicks,” he said. “I haven’t been called back.
“Usually they give you a little bit of feedback, and I remember the casting director going, ‘Wow. You really did a great casting there,” he recalled.
“Which is code for saying, ‘Hey, call the game back over there, man.'”
Chris said the professional rejection “got to the point where I was never going to audition for Marvel again.” “I was like, ‘This is stupid, I’ll never be in a Marvel movie,'” Chris recalled.
The self-doubt came at a time when Chris was auditioning for “anything that came out that needed a guy who even remotely looked like me”.
“Either I would submit a tape and they would say, ‘No, we don’t need to see it,’ or I would get there and see them, they would say, ‘No, this is the last time we need to see You.'”
Of course, we all know what happened next. Is there a lesson here? Of course – if at first you don’t succeed in being cast in an MCU movie, try, try again.
Watch the full interview here.