Actor Chris Pratt has revealed that in order to earn money as a teenager he worked as a stripper. The star, who has appeared in Zero Dark Thirty, admitted that he loved getting naked anyway, so was happy to rake in the cash from getting his clothes off in a public place.
“I was always a very much naked person. I loved to always get naked. I was very free, so I thought, ‘I may as well get paid’,” he told BuzzFeed.
On an incident when he was hired by a friend’s grandmother for her birthday party, he laughed:
“It was a surprise. I don’t know how it got around to them, but they paid me $40.
Chris Pratt used to work as a stripper (Twitter)
“I was never like Magic Mike, you know. I did go one time and audition on a stage for a club, but I don’t think I got the job. I don’t think I’m a very good dancer.”
That wasn’t the only way he paid his bills, though.
“I cleaned peoples’ cars, painted murals, worked for my dad, worked at a burger joint, was a room service waiter, worked at the snack bar at a bingo hall. I babysat and mowed lawns; I picked blackberries and sold them,” he listed. “I was always very enterprising as a kid. I was always trying to find some way to make money.”
