Chris Pratt Says He Blew Through $75,000 After Getting First Big Hollywood Paycheck
Chris Pratt Says He Blew Through $75,000 After Getting First Big Hollywood Paycheck https://t.co/PlsDcupXq2
- The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) May 25, 2024
Chris Pratt admits he wasn’t very smart with his first big paycheck after breaking into Hollywood.
He opened up about learning about the importance of financial literacy later in life.
“I was under the impression that I would never run out of money. The first paycheck I got, I was like, ‘Are you serious?’ I had lived on very little money for a long time, so the first big job I got … was a TV movie. I got paid $75,000. I was like, ‘I’m never gonna wait again. Fuck you, bitches, I am leaving,' And then about two months later, I was like, ‘Where’d that money go?!'”
Pratt traveled back to Hawaii, Australia and the world, thinking he wouldn’t run out of money.
“I was like, ‘Well, I’m gonna probably invest, I’m probably gonna get a yacht,' That was just a crazy amount of money to me. I never could have possibly imagined making that amount of money and it went very quickly.”
Pratt was never taught about financial literacy when he was younger.
But as life got more expensive as an adult, he realized he needed to create a plan.
“I didn’t know what to do with money. 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.’ I have to think about, ‘What am I gonna do? How am I gonna get to the point where if I stop working one day, I’ll still be OK? My family will be OK.’ So, kind of coming up with a financial literacy plan, you know, later in my life was sort of one of the steps of me growing up.”
There were many moments throughout his career when he felt like he “made it,” :
a Carl’s Jr. TV commercial, getting his SAG card and finding a talent rep.
His most memorable moment was buying his mother, a house after his role on the TV drama Everwood.
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ONTD, what would you do with $75,000 ?