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Chris Pratt Ate Customers’ Leftovers When He Was a Starving Actor


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We don’t know if Passengers is any good, but we love it already since the film’s press tour is giving us lots of Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence. The co-stars recently stopped by The Graham Norton Show, where the actor reminisced about a “terrible” and “awful” restaurant he worked at when he first started out in Beverly Hills.

“I was a major contributing factor to how terrible this restaurant was,” he joked. “It was just real garbage.”

Well, maybe he wasn’t entirely joking. After being egged on by co-star Lawrence to reveal the name of the restaurant, Pratt launched into a story about how, as a starving waiter, he ate patrons’ leftovers.

“That’s how I ate,” he recalled. “When you’re in Hollywood … you need a job that gives you your days free so you can try to audition for projects. So I’d work weekends and work nights. I had no money and no one was coming to the restaurant so I wasn’t making any tips. I’d make, like, $20 or $30 bucks a day, maybe, and it really was a place I’d go to eat. That kitchen fed me for the time I was there.”

“Do you ever do this?” Pratt asked, turning to fellow guest and chef Jamie Oliver. “Like a lady would come in, and she’d be like, ‘What do you recommend?’”

The struggling actor would then recommend a 32-ounce Porterhouse steak, naturally. Apparently he did this to a 90-year-old woman he knew wouldn’t be able to finish it all.

“So, [I brought] this steak out to this lady, and I’m hiding in the corner watching, like, how much is she eating and how much do I get?” Chris continued. “And I go back and she’s like, ‘I can’t eat another bite.’ I was like, yes [because] 80 percent of the steak is left.”

“I’ve been busted so many times eating off people’s plates that they were like, ‘You have to stop doing that! It’s really, really bad,’” Pratt exclaimed. However, those warnings didn’t stop him as he shoveled the leftovers in his mouth like a “Komodo dragon.” This time though, when he walked back out, the lady asked for the rest of the steak to go.

“I said, ‘I’m so sorry. I already threw it in the trash.’ And she said, ‘It’s for my dog. It’s fine … if you don’t mind, just fish it out and put it in a box,’” Chris said. He told the woman he would personally dig through the dumpster to get the steak for her dog, but simultaneously begged the chef to whip up another one ASAP.

“She ended up being, like, so happy that I would be willing to dig through the garbage for her dog that she gave me a giant tip and she left early because she couldn’t wait for the steak to be done, so, I got another steak!” Pratt said.

Chris Pratt certainly doesn’t have to worry about where his next steak is coming from now.