Chris Pratt praised God during an acceptance speech at the Teen Choice Awards.
Pratt and actress Bryce Dallas Howard both won awards for Choice Summer Movie Actor and Choice Summer Movie Actress for “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.”
“I want to thank God. I always do that when I’m up on a big platform in front of a bunch of young faces. I say ‘I love God. That’s my thing. I love him. And you should too,’” said Pratt.
Pratt said Howard was working in London and couldn’t be at the awards show, before she showed up on a screen via broadcast feed, and greeted her fans.
Pratt expressed his spiritual beliefs on stage while accepting a different award, back in June. Pratt talked about God, and then prayer, during a longer acceptance speech for the Generation Award at the MTV Movie & TV Awards.
During that speech, he gave his audience “nine rules from Chris Pratt, Generation Award winner.” Three of the rules were overtly spiritual, the rest were about being a person of good character and helping others.
At last year’s Teen Choice Awards, Pratt said “I would not be here with the ease and grace I have in my heart without my lord and savior Jesus Christ.” He was there to collect an award for Choice Sci-Fi Movie Actor for playing Star-Lord in “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2.”
Pratt told Esquire in 2014 that he came upon religion while waiting for somebody to buy him and a friend alcoholic drinks as a youth in Hawaii. Pratt was too young to buy them himself. He said a man approached him and asked what he planned to do that day, then offered him something different.
Another comic book-based movie Pratt was scheduled for has reportedly been put on hold indefinitely. “Cowboy Ninja Viking,” based on an Image Comics title, was scheduled for a June 28, 2019, release date. Problems on the set have sent the movie back into development so it will not begin production in mid-September as originally planned.